Heather Ring is a landscape architect practicing in London and is the Founder and Creative Director of Wayward Plants. In 2010, she was commissioned by the Architecture Foundation to design and produce the Union Street Urban Orchard for the London Festival of Architecture and followed this, in 2011, with the Urban Physic Garden – a pop-up garden and summer festival of medicinal plants. Heather’s work has been exhibited internationally at venues including the Barbican in London, the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, the Graham Foundation in Chicago and the Metis International Garden Festival in Quebec.
Heather has worked for the international landscape practices of Gustafson Porter and Martha Schwartz Partners on the design of large-scale public spaces, developing projects that explored social engagement and ecological narratives. She has a Masters degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania School of Design. Beyond Wayward Plants, she presently lectures in the Masters of Landscape Architecture at Writtle School of Design and is a Senior Editor for Archinect.com.