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

Tim Waterman: Avuncular Architectures: Queer Futurity and Life Economies

In Sarah Ensor’s essay “Spinster Ecology: Rachel Carson, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Nonreproductive Futurity” (2012), the avuncular figure of the spinster figures a model of “queer ecocritical practice” and a “model of care that allows distance, indirection, and aloofness to persist and that transforms the vexed concept of ‘enoughness’ from a chastening limitation to a quietly affirmative state.” This talk explores how models of care involving a critical (or queer ecocritical) distance can provide a different frame of thinking for design, based in the idea of life economies and a life drive. Examples range from the 1950s new town of Harlow in Essex to Jacques Tati’s influential film Mon Oncle. 

Bio: Tim Waterman is Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture History and Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. His research addresses imaginaries: moral, political, social, ecological, radical, and utopian. This forms the basis for explorations of power and democracy and their shaping of public space and public life; taste, etiquette, belief and ritual; and foodways in community and civic life and landscape. He is at work on the book Landscape Citizenships and has recently edited two others: Landscape and Agency: Critical Essays with Ed Wall and the Routledge Handbook of Landscape and Food with Joshua Zeunert.

Date:27 May 2020 at 8am (NZST) [equivalent to 26 May: 1pm PDT (Los Angeles), 4pm EDT (New York) or 9pm GMT (London)]

Zoom Registration Link: https://vuw.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0ocuiqqzkuG9UUOh3j4xmuPXmuDaPovGDc