The next speakers in our ‘Thinkers and Doers’ series is Roberto Rovira (Studio Roberto Rovira and Florida International University) presenting “People, Place and Ecologically-informed Design”.

This lecture is scheduled to happen on Wednesday 8 July 2020 at 8am NZ time (or 7 July  – 1pm Los Angeles, 4pm New York, 9pm London).

To attend this lecture, please register through this weblink 👉https://vuw.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0ucu2urDkjE9M-Zk1UXj1cw8hk_gUiqFEV 

Abstract:

Principal of Studio Roberto Rovira, Associate Professor, and Chair of Landscape Architecture + Environmental and Urban Design at Florida International University in Miami, Roberto Rovira will share a series of design and research projects whose approach tries to connect cultural and natural factors in their built and conceptual form. As a landscape architect with a design, engineering, and fine arts background, his teaching, research, and creative works ultimately come back to people, place, and the fertile intersections where these meet.

Bio: 

Roberto has received recognition for his work as an educator and professional by prominent organizations like the ASLA, the CELA, the Architectural League, the AIA, and others. Fast Company magazine recently selected his EcoAtlas Project as a World Changing Idea finalist and he was recognized with an Emerging Voice award by the Architectural League in New York, one of the most coveted awards in North American Architecture. Roberto has been lead designer in national and international projects and his work ranges from environmental installations and competitions, to art commissions and landscape architectural projects.

About:

‘Thinkers and Doers’ aims at bringing together practitioners, scholars, students and the wider community of landscape architecture and affiliated built environment disciplines to share ideas and to hear the latest innovations in the field. This online series brings together nationally and internationally renowned experts through an initiative between the NZILA Wellington Branch and the Landscape Architecture Programme at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

This lecture is scheduled to happen on Wednesday 24 June at 8am NZ time (or 23 June – 1pm Los Angeles, 4pm New York, 9pm London). 

Abstract:

This lecture will explore recent projects at various sites in the postcolonial and Islamic worlds, thorough two questions. First, how can theoretical, educational, and design possibilities be expanded and diversified through working in societies where there is no formal landscape architecture discipline? Second, how can landscape architects more sensitively work outside of their social contexts with respect and deference for others’ values and ways of life?

Bio:

Gareth Doherty is an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Director of the Master in Landscape Architecture Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Doherty’s contributions invoke theoretical insights from anthropology to learn from people’s daily landscape practices, and designed landscapes, always asking how people-centered fieldwork can inform landscape architectural innovations.

About:

‘Thinkers and Doers’ aims at bringing together practitioners, scholars, students and the wider community of landscape architecture and affiliated built environment disciplines to share ideas and to hear the latest innovations in the field. This online series brings together nationally and internationally renowned experts through an initiative between the NZILA Wellington Branch and the Landscape Architecture Programme at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.

To attend this lecture, please register through this weblink 👉 https://vuw.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJItf-qppj4pGNAlrlDPwFOLZhs4cmJQ7ot1   

The webinar touches upon the climate challenges we face and the impact these have to the value of the landscape, our communities and economies. Using real life projects, it discusses on innovative models that have demonstrated the significance of policy, transformation and the landscape in strategic design within multidisciplinary teams and collaboration processes.

Bio: Dr Anastasia Nikologianni holds a European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) Climate-KIC labelled PhD in Landscape Architecture and Climate Emergency with regards to the role of low carbon, spatial quality and the contribution design can make to the development of regional landscape-based spatial strategies. Anastasia is also qualified as a Landscape Architect MA and Agriculturist/Horticulturist M.Sc. Most of her recent research has focused on climate emergency issues, the extent to which spatial quality and low carbon can be delivered in regional landscape design as well as the way visual representations contribute to the design process. 

Anastasia is a research fellow and consultant in Birmingham City University and joins the CATiD BCU team, an international, multidisciplinary research, design and consultancy hub. CATiD’s design-led and conceptual approach aims to place quality of life and sustainability-oriented transformation at the top of the political agenda.

She is also the Chair of the Emerging Professionals Advocate of IFLA World aiming to support landscape architects and designers. Acknowledging that policy plays a significant role in the way large-scale design is implemented, Anastasia is a member of both the Policy and Communications committee and the Climate Emergency and Biodiversity Response Panel for the Landscape Institute (UK) and has an active role in various initiatives such as the recent ‘Climate Change Guide for Local Authorities’ in the UK. Holding committee positions at professional organisations have allowed her to work in areas related to climate change and the landscape, fulfilling her passion for the creation of a global network promoting the landscape profession.

10 June 2020 at 8am (NZST) [equivalent to 09 June: 1pm Los Angeles, 4pm New York or 9pm London]

Zoom Registration Link:

https://vuw.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUuc--pqz4uGNwhv3SWCoKqryzJuAEecsvV

‘Thinkers and Doers’ aims at bringing together practitioners, scholars, students and the wider community of landscape architecture and affiliated built environment disciplines to share ideas and to hear the latest innovations in the field. This online series brings together nationally and internationally renowned experts through an initiative between the Tuia Pito Ora – New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects (NZILA) Wellington Branch and the Landscape Architecture Programme at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington (VUW). Lectures will be 30 minutes long followed up by 10 minutes of Q&A. This series happens fortnightly at 8am (NZ time) to allow speakers and guest from across the globe.

The first speaker is Hannah Hopewell with “The Urban Intertidal and other scopic apparatuses”. This lecture is scheduled to happen on Wednesday 13 May at 8am (New Zealand Time).

To attend this lecture, please register through this weblink: https://vuw.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwqduqopjgrHdFOBDyVpAnaLNBSq0e9zTHf