Dr Scott Hawken is Director of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Adelaide’s School of Architecture and Civil Engineering. He has deep multidisciplinary experience in Australia and abroad within landscape architecture and across complimentary disciplines such as archaeology, city planning and urban design. He is a strong supporter of the kind of transdisciplinary thinking necessary to tackle the large problems of our time. Scott is an active supporter of AILA being chair of the AILA National Working Group on Biodiversity Positive Design and a member of the National and State Education Committees for AILA.
He has been a jury member for the Australian National Urban Design awards from 2020 to 2022 and a regular member of state award juries. He is a regular commentator on landscape architecture in professional publications such as Landscape Architecture Australia, Topos and Foreground as well as edited books and rigorous peer reviewed publication. Scott regularly convenes international symposiums and workshops and has done so in Australia and around the world in various cities including New York, Japan, Delhi, Chennai, Madrid, Bilbao, Venice, Berlin, and Cape Town. These have involved postgraduate students, professionals, and government. In 2022 he was convenor of the international Symposium on Miyawaki Miniforests and Smart Green Networks which brought together participants from around the world across four continents to further the agenda of rapid urban greening to counter the biodiversity crisis. In 2019 he chaired the AILA sponsored symposium on Water Cities. As a result of his expertise on urban development, Southeast Asia and megaprojects, Scott was invited to consult with the United National’s High Commissioner for Human Rights in Kuala Lumpur, and this resulted in UN policy documents and peer reviewed publications published in leading journals “Cities” and “Sustainable Cities and Society”.
Scott is a world authority on the archaeological and urban landscape systems of Angkor and Southeast Asia. His landscape research has been featured in BBC and National Geographic feature length documentaries and involved the mapping and visualisation of over 20,000km of archaeological features from 1000 sq km of remote sensing imagery to gain new insights into the evolution and ecology of archaeological landscapes and green infrastructure within Southeast Asia, Such insights advance understanding of urban agricultural as a sustainable element that can co-exist at the centre of our greatest cities. His archaeological academic background is backed up with extensive field expertise trekking through the landscapes of mainland and peninsula Southeast Asia. He has published invited papers in eminent special issues and volumes including the recent “The Angkorian World” Routledge Volume. He is currently editing a special issue for Urban Studies which synthesizes Archaeology and Urban Planning and Design to provide perspectives on long term sustainability.
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