CV of the speakers:
Bruno Marques (https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/ )
Bruno Marques is a registered landscape architect and educator. He completed his Landscape Architecture studies at the University of Lisbon (Portugal) and Berlin Technical University (Germany), followed by his PhD studies at the University of Otago (New Zealand). Bruno has practised in Germany, Estonia, the United Kingdom and New Zealand, having an extensive portfolio of built projects. During the past nine years at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, he has developed a comprehensive research agenda to embrace the formulation of frameworks on landscape rehabilitation, cultural landscapes, place-making and Indigenous community health and wellbeing. He is currently the Associate Dean for the Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation and the President of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA).
Alessandro Martinelli (https://www.pccu.edu.tw/ , https://www.biasarchitects.com/ , https://www.listlab.eu/ )
Previously involved in research projects and didactic activities at the Accademia di architettura in Mendrisio, the International Institute of Architecture in Lugano Vico Morcote, the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam, the Barcelona Institute of Architecture, the Canadian Centre of Architecture in Montreal, the Archivio Cattaneo in Cernobbio, the Shih Chien University and the Huafan University in Taipei, Alessandro Martinelli, Ph.D., is Associate professor at the Department of Landscape architecture, the Chinese Culture University, Taipei. He is also the editorial director of ListLab Publisher, Chair of the IFLA Education & Academic Affairs Committee, and immediate past chair of the IFLA Asia Pacific Region Education & Academic Affairs Committee. Finally, he works with BIAS Architects & Associates on design and curating projects concerning the public space today.
Gunther Vogt (https://ethz.ch /, https://www.vogt-la.com/)
Günther Vogt’s training at Gartenbauschule Oeschberg provided the practical basis for his intensive landscape work. His knowledge of vegetation and his skills in cultivation continue to be the cornerstones of his work. His studies with Peter Erni, Jürg Altherr, and Dieter Kienast at Interkantonales Technikum Raperswil combined the disciplines of culture, design, and natural sciences. VOGT Landschaftsarchitekten emerged from the office partnership with Dieter Kienast in 2000. The firm has achieved international recognition with projects such as the Tate Modern in London, Allianz Arena in Munich, or the Masoala Rainforest Hall at the Zurich Zoo. Its work is characterized by the dialogue established between the various disciplines and its close cooperation with artists. His latest books, Solid, Fluid, Biotic (2021), Mutation and Morphosis (2020) and the award-winning publication Distance & Engagement (Günther Vogt and Alice Foxley, 2010), show VOGT’s impressive analytical and knowledge-based design translated into models. Since 2005, Günther Vogt has been pursuing a combination of teaching, practice, and research with his chair at the Institute of Landscape Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. As a passionate collector and keen traveller, he is looking for ways to read, interpret, and describe landscapes and find answers to questions about future forms of urban coexistence. In 2012, Günther Vogt was awarded the Prix Meret Oppenheim by the Federal Office of Culture.
Kongjian Yu (https://www.pku.edu.cn/ , https://www.turenscape.com/)
A recipient of a Doctor of Design at Harvard, Yu is Professor and founding dean of Peking University College of Architecture and Landscape and the founder and design principal of Turenscape which practices globally. Yu’s guiding design principles are the appreciation of the ordinary and a deep embrace of nature—even of its potentially destructive aspects, such as flooding. His projects have won numerous international design awards including 14 ASLA Excellence and Honor Awards,7 WAF Best Landscape Architecture of the Year Award. Yu is also the author of over 20 books and more than 300 papers and is the founder and chief editor of the internationally awarded magazine Landscape Architecture Frontiers. He has been an invited lecturer, speaker and guest professor around the world, including teaching for over five years at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and has been a keynote speaker at more than 60 conferences worldwide; Several of Yu’s core ideas, including the concept of “negative” or inverse planning—which first identifies what should be protected rather than what should be developed—have gained wide currency. His thinking about “ecological security patterns” helped shape environmental protection efforts throughout China. And his promotion of the “sponge city” concept, which uses natural techniques to capture, filter and store rainfall for future use and reduce flood risks, helped to spur the Chinese government to launch an ambitious sponge city campaign across the country and has gained global attention. Yu was elected International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Science in 2016 and received the IFLA’s highest honour, the Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award, in 2020, which celebrates a living landscape architect whose “achievements and contributions have had a unique and lasting impact on the welfare of society.”
Laurie Olin (https://www.upenn.edu/ , https://www.theolinstudio.com/ )
Laurie Olin is a distinguished teacher, author, and one of the most renowned landscape architects practicing today. From vision to realization, he has guided many of OLIN’s signature projects, which span the history of the studio from the Washington Monument Grounds in Washington, DC to Bryant Park in New York City. His recent projects include the AIA award-winning Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Simon and Helen Director Park in Portland, Oregon. Laurie Olin studied civil engineering at the University of Alaska and pursued architecture at the University of Washington, where Richard Haag encouraged him to focus on landscape. He is currently a Practice Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has taught for 40 years, and is the former chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University. Laurie is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, and a recipient of the 1998 Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the recipient of the 2012 National Medal of Arts, the highest lifetime achievement award for artists and designers bestowed by the National Endowment for the Arts and the President of the United States. He also holds the 2011 American Society of Landscape Architects Medal, the society’s highest award for a landscape architect.
Julian Raxworthy ( https://www.canberra.edu.au/ , https://www.julianraxworthy.com/ )
Initially working as a gardener and landscaper, Julian Raxworthy trained as a horticulturist at Ryde TAFE, later becoming a landscape architect, graduating with his undergraduate degree and research master’s degree in landscape architecture, both from RMIT, Australia. He has a PhD from the University of Queensland, where he is an Honorary Associate Professor with the ATCH (Architecture, Theory, Criticism and History) Research Centre. He is Associate Professor & Discipline Lead: Landscape Architecture at the University of Canberra. As a registered landscape architect in Australia, Julian worked extensively with Aspect Studios. Later, he worked for award-winning architecture practices such as Donovan Hill in Brisbane and, most recently Wolff Architects in Cape Town, South Africa, where he is also a registered landscape architect. As an academic, he has been tenured faculty at RMIT, Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane and the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He was a steering committee member for the M.Phil for the African Centre for Cities (ACC). He has taught internationally, notably at the University of Virginia, the École Nationale Supérieure de Paysage (ENSP) Versailles, and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. A co-founder of Kerb, the student landscape architecture journal from RMIT, he writes regularly about landscape architecture today and is the immediate past Chair of Education & Academic Affairs at IFLA.
Hanna Jurisch (https://zkm.de/ )
Hanna Jurisch is a German curator, art mediator, and researcher working at ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe. She studied art history and archaeology at Heidelberg University and University of León as well as art theory, media philosophy, and scenography at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG). In her research and practice-based work, she relocates the subjective point of view to investigate methods of mediation. She was part of the Critical Zone Study Group initiated and led by Bruno Latour in preparation for the Critical Zones exhibition at ZKM. Since then, she explores ways to communicate the political, social and scientific aspects of the Critical Zone and develops methods to become terrestrial.
Rosalea Monacella (https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/ )
Rosalea Monacella is a faculty member of the Landscape Architecture Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Her expertise is in the careful indexing and shifting of dynamic resource flows that inform the landscape of the city. Her design research practice explores the notion of the ‘thickened ground’ through a careful and rigorous investigation of an expanded ecology of economic, ecological, and social systems that shape the metabolic and material flows of the city. Speculating on alternative near-future cities and how they might respond to climate change, changing resource flows and ecologies of energy.
Steffi Schuppel (http://www.cattaneo-schueppel.com/ )
Steffi Schuppel graduated from Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden (FH) as Dipl.-Ing. Landespflege. Then, she obtained a Master degree in Landscape Architecture in Switzerland and Germany through the joint university program of HSR Rapperswil, FH Weihenstephan and HfWU Nürtingen-Geislingen. She enjoyed her early days in the career working overseas for Olin Partnership, Philadelphia. Afterwards, she collaborated with several offices in Germany and Switzerland. In 2011, together with Matteo Cattaneo she founded her practice in Dresden, Germany, and Milano, Italy. From 2015 to 2022 she was chairwoman of the regional group of Bund Deutscher Landschaftsarchitekten Saxony. From 2011 to 2012 she was also chairwoman of the Zurich regional group of BSLA - Bund Schweizer Landschaftsarchitekten und Landschaftsarchitektinnen.
