Dr Jillian Walliss has over fifteen year experience as a landscape architecture academic in Australia and New Zealand. Since 2007, she has worked in the Landscape Architecture program at the University of Melbourne where she teaches landscape theory and design studio. Her interest in digital technologies was initially provoked by the challenge of embedding digital technology within design studio. In 2011 Jillian’s innovation in teaching with digital technologies was recognised by the University of Melbourne’s prestigious Edward Brown Award. Her book Landscape Architecture and Digital Technologies: re-conceptualising design and making (co-written with Dr Heike Rahmann) will be published by Routledge in October 2015. Working across contemporary design practice and academia, the book highlights the role of the digital model in encouraging a new design logic that moves from the privileging of the visual to a focus on processes of formation, bridging the interface of the conceptual and material, the virtual and the physical.
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