12th Rosa Barba Award: International Jury
Kotchakorn Voraakhom is a landscape architect from Thailand who works on building productive green public space that tackles climate change in urban dense areas and climate-vulnerable communities.
She is a chairwoman of the landscape without the border IFLA APR, TED Fellow, Echoing Green Climate Fellow. She received her master's in landscape architecture from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design.
Kotchakorn is featured in 2019, TIME 100 Next, —that spotlights 100 rising stars, shaping the future of the world and 15 women fighting against climate change from TIME Magazine. She was named BBC100 Women, the Green 30 for 2020 by Bloomberg and got an award from United Nations as Winners of the 2020 UN Global Climate Action Awards, Women for Results.
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Martha Fajardo is a Colombian Landscape Architect, with a master’s degree in landscape design and a receiver of the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters (DLitt), from The University of Sheffield. She is also an architect. She has over 38 years’ experience in leading national and international roles, playing a key role in establishing the profession in countries all around the globe.
Martha is founder and CEO of Grupo Verde SAS (www.grupoverdeltda.com), a firm dedicated to the professional practice of Landscape Architecture, Landscape Urbanism and Urban Design, in the company of the Japanese urban planner Noboru Kawashima.
Former President of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA), the only professional body representing all landscape architects on a global level. t
She cofounded and was the first President of the Colombian Society of Landscape Architects (SAP), and Honorary member.
She cofounded and chaired the Latin American Landscape Initiative (LALI), a bottom-up movement with a horizontal, transdisciplinary, and cross-cutting trajectory that brings together civil society, academia, public institutions, and other parties to safeguard the Latin American landscapes.
Martha is at the Board of Directors member of Nature of Cities (TNOC) a creative collective to strive for cities worldwide that are resilient, sustainable, livable, and just.
Julio Gaeta has a PhD in Theory, History and Architecture Criticism from the Federal University of Porto Alegre, Brazil, and is a licensed architect from the Faculty of Architecture in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Since 1985, he combines his professional practice with academia, working as an architect, professor and researcher focusing on architecture and the city.
In 1991, he founded ELARQA, a research center and publishing house writing on topics related to architecture and the city. Through ELARQA, he has written and edited over a hundred texts about architecture and urban topics.
He is a member and Artistic Creator of the FONCA-CONCACULTA—the Mexican National System of Artistic Creators—, receiving a four-year grant in 2007 and a three-year grant in 2011.
He is Mexico’s Academic Director in Future City Managers and 21st Century Housing Laboratory, joint programs between the Iberoamerican University and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.
Gareth Doherty is Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Director of the Master in Landscape Architecture Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
Doherty explores and unravels narratives and practices of landscape architecture that have not yet been formally documented. This work is essential to establish the precedents required to diversify the design disciplines and expand upon the limited and limiting traditional design canons. Doherty works in Islamic and, for comparative purposes, postcolonial societies, valuing the everyday and the experiential aspects of landscapes, be they professionally designed or not. Through a grounded research method Doherty calls “landscape fieldwork,” he employs human and environmental audiences as essential components of design and research in complex landscapes.
Doherty bases his work on two questions. First, how can landscape architecture theory, education, and practice benefit from working with societies with no formal landscape architecture discipline? Second, how does comparing landscapes of diverse societies better inform landscape architects’ sensitivity to the values that shape others’ attitudes towards the landscapes they dwell in and make? Doherty addresses these questions through research on designed landscapes across the postcolonial and Islamic worlds, primarily in the Arabian Peninsula, West Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Bruno Marques is the president of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA), a registered landscape architect and a university educator. He completed his Landscape Architecture studies at the University of Lisbon (PT) and Berlin Technical University (DE), followed by his PhD studies at the University of Otago (NZ). He has practised in Germany, Estonia, the United Kingdom and Aotearoa-New Zealand, having an extensive portfolio of built projects.
During the past nine years 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 at Victoria University of Wellington in Aotearoa-New Zealand.
He currently is the Associate Dean for the Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation at Victoria University of Wellington and the immediate past Head of the Landscape Architecture Department. Professionally, he has been a long-standing contributor to IFLA since 2008.
