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Gini Lee

 

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 Schmidt

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.

Tim Waterman

 

Tim Waterman is Professor of Landscape Theory and Acting Director of Architecture History and Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. 

 

He is Chair of the Landscape Research Group (LRG), a Non-Executive Director of the digital arts collective Furtherfield, and an advisor to the Centre for Landscape Democracy of the Landscape and Spatial Planning Institute at NMBU in Norway.

 

He is the author of The Landscape of Utopia: Writings on Everyday Life, Taste, Democracy, and Design and editor of Landscape Citizenships with Ed Wall and Jane Wolff, Landscape and Agency: Critical Essays with Ed Wall, and the Routledge Handbook of Landscape and Food with Joshua Zeunert. His writing has appeared in a variety of journals including the Journal of ArchitectureGarden Design Journal, Utopian Studies, and Landscape Architecture Magazine. His brother is the experimental musician, writer, and producer Alex Waterman.

 

Professor of Landscape Theory The Bartlett School of Architecture