12th Biennial 2023

Gini Lee is a landscape architect, interior designer and pastoralist and is Professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia and was the Elisabeth Murdoch Chair of Landscape Architecture (2011- 2017). Prior to this she was the Professor of Landscape Architecture at Queensland University of Technology (2008-2011) and Head of School at the University of South Australia (1999-2004), moving to academia after many years in Landscape Architecture and Interior Design practice and consultancy based from her Melbourne studio.

Cassian has over 25 years of experience as director of Hermannshof Garden, a privately owned and internationally well known display and trial garden in Weinheim in South-Western Germany. Cassian’s role includes developing low maintenance and sustainable plant combinations using natural plant communities.

His research  has been focused on the 'New German Style' of planting, using stress tolerant natural plant communities  (mainly North American prairie and Eastern European steppe) as models for new sustainable plant combinations for the urban environment.

He is also profesor at Hochschule Geisenheim University.