Lecturers

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Brian Davis is an assistant professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Cornell University where he runs the Borderlands Research Group. He studied landscape architecture at North Carolina State University and the University of Virginia, has practiced in Buenos Aires and New York City, is a registered landscape architect in New York State, and a member of the Dredge Research Collaborative. Current collaborators include the US Army Corps of Engineers, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, Mahan Rykiel Associates, and the Port of Baltimore. His research and teaching are focused on public space, flooding infrastructure, and water quality in ports and river cities throughout the Americas. His work positions these projects as acts of desire and landscape-making through a focus on the agency of things and aesthetics. Current research includes the design of public sedimentary infrastructure in Great Lakes ports and Baltimore Harbor as well as river infrastructure in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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Professor and Founder Dean of Landscape Architecture Department, Tsinghua University. As the head of the Group of Experts, presided over the “The 11th National Five-year Plan for Protecting National Natural and Cultural Heritage”,and more than 10 General Managment Plan for natural and cultural heritage sites in China. His Ph. D. thesis “Improving the National Park and Protected Area System of China: Theories and Practice” won the first prize of Tsinghua University’s excellent doctoral dissertation, which played an important role in the creation of National park system in China.

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Nina-Marie Lister is Graduate Program Director and Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at Ryerson University in Toronto where she founded and directs the Ecological Design Lab. From 2009-2014, she was Visiting Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. A Registered Professional Planner (MCIP, RPP) with post-graduate training in landscape ecology and urban planning, she is the founding principal of PLANDFORM, a creative studio practice exploring the relationship between landscape, ecology, and urbanism. Lister’s research, teaching and practice focus on the confluence of culture and nature: her work centres on landscape infrastructure and ecological processes within contemporary metropolitan regions, and engages systems approaches to develop new methods for urban resilience and adaptation in the face of large-scale change.

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Anuradha Mathur, an architect and landscape architect, is Professor in the Landscape Architecture Department, University of Pennsylvania. In collaboration with her partner Dilip da Cunha she is author of Mississippi Floods: Designing a Shifting Landscape (2001), Deccan Traverses: the Making of Bangalore’s Terrain (2006) and Soak: Mumbai in an Estuary (2009), and co-editor of Design in the Terrain of Water (2014). In 2011 and 2012 Mathur and da Cunha curated an international symposium titled In the Terrain of Water, held at PennDesign. (http://terrain.design.upenn.edu/about). In 2013/2014 they led a PennDesign Team for the project Structures of Coastal Resilience supported by the Rockefeller Foundation (www.structuresofcoastalresilience.org).

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Architect, Founding Partner of Gehl Architects, and Professor emeritus The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture. He has published several books, including the most recent “How to Study Public Life”. As part of Gehl Architects, he has collaborated on projects for the cities of Copenhagen, London, Melbourne, Sydney, Riga, Amman, New York and Moscow, among others. Honorary fellow of the Architects Institutes in Denmark, England, Scotland, USA and Canada. Awarded with the ”Sir Patrick Abercrombie Prize for exemplary contributions to Town Planning” by The International Union of Architects as well as honorary doctor degrees from Universities in Edinburgh, Halifax, Varna and Toronto.

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Nicolas Bourriaud, born in 1965, is a curator and writer. He is currently the Director of the MoCo- Montpellier Contemporain (gathering the art center La Panacée, the ESBAMA art school and the future MoCo Museum opening in 2019). He will be the curator of the Istanbul Biennial, 2019. He founded and Codirected the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, (99-06), was the founder advisor for the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in Kiev (03-07), professor at the IUAV in Venice (06-07), Gulbenkian Curator for Contemporary Art at Tate Britain in London (07/10), In 2010, he headed the studies department at the Ministry of culture in France, then became Director of the ENSBA of Paris (11 -15).  As an independent curator, he was part of the curatorial team of Aperto 1993 at the Venice Biennial, and organised many international exhibitions, from «Traffic» (Capc Bordeaux, 96), «Estratos» (Murcia, Spain, 08) or «Altermodern» (Tate Britain, 09), to the recent «Wirikuta/ Mexican time slip» (Aguascalientes, Mexico, 16). He also was curator of several biennials, including Lyon (05), Moscou (05 and 07, with with Rosa Martínez, Daniel Birnbaum, Joseph Backstein, Hans-Ulrich Obrist and  Iara Boubnova), «Monodrome» (Athens, 11), «The Great Acceleration» (Taipei Biennial 14) and «Threads» (Kaunas Biennial, Lituania, 15). He published several theoretical essays, including «Relational Aesthetics», «Postproduction», «Radicant» and «The Exform», which are translated in twenty languages.

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 Architecture, Garden 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

JURY ROSA BARBA 10

Walter is the Creative Director and Founder of Hood Design Studio in Oakland, California. Hood Design Studio is his tripartite practice, working across art + fabrication, design + landscape, and research + urbanism. He is also a professor of landscape architecture at the University of California, Berkeley and lectures on professional and theoretical projects nationally and internationally. Walter designs and creates urban spaces and objects that are public sculpture. Believing everyone needs beauty in their life, he makes use of everyday objects to create new apertures through which to see the surrounding emergent beauty, strangeness, and idiosyncrasies of urban space. His ideas emerge from years of studying and practicing architecture, landscape architecture, and fine arts, and yet Walter tactfully eschews from differentiating between the three on any one project. His projects also highlight. The Studio’s award winning work has been featured in publications including Dwell, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fast Company, Architectural Digest, Places Journal, and Landscape Architecture Magazine. Walter Hood is also a recipient of the 2017 Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award.

Jordi Sardà, 1951. Architect by the ETSAB-UPC, in 1982 post graduate in Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture in 1984. DUOT teacher of all courses of Planning and Landscape Theory and History of Master Degree of Landscape Architecture (MUP). He also teaches in Public Space and is responsible for the Final Master Thesis of Master of Landscape Architecture (MAP). Between 2007 and 2014 until present, professor of Projects and Urbanism of the EAR, at URV. His doctoral thesis “Només Imatges. La targeta postal vehicle de coneixement urbà”, investigates the relationships and capabilities of visual images-postcards to establish a collective reading of landscape and city. From his studio of Reus works in architecture, urbanism and landscape  projects and intervention in the built heritage buildings and in the city.

Architect and landscape architect, member of the Departament d’Urbanisme i Ordenació del Territori de la UPC, professor of Landscape Architecture in ETSAV (1982-1992), Master of Landscape in UPC since 1991 and of urbanism (degree) in ETSAB since 1992. He has been a visiting professor at Washington University in St. Louis, GSD Harvard University and Facoltà di Architettura di Venezia, IUAV. He is currently Member of Culture of the Governing Board of the COAC, a member of LUB and AxA. He has been president of the international jury of the V Biennial of Landscape Barcelona and finalist in II and VI editions. Founding partner of Ruisánchez Arquitectes, working on Landscape Architecture, Urbanism and Architecture projects, he has been recognized with several awards including: Fad Architecture Prize in 1997, Catalonia Construction Award, 2005 Catalonia Social Housing Award 2007 Technal Architecture Prize in 2008, Barcelona City Award, Architecture and Urbanism 2012.