FESTIVAL SPEAKERS

UN/EARTH speakers include a cross section of specialists and designers across the creative, scientific and cultural and professional realms. International in scope and significance but local in impact the speakers are from the Americas, Africa, Oceania, Asia and Europe.

 

Please note, program and speakers subject to change.

Aziza Chaouni

Principal at ACP and Associate Professor at
the University of Toronto

 

Prof. Zhu Yufan 

Deputy Head of the Department of Landscape
Architecture at the Tsinghua University

 

Sherie Bruce

Founder and Managing Director at
Culture to Country

 

Dr Joshua Zeunert

Scientia Associate Professor at
UNSW

 

Warwick Keates

Director at WAX Design 

 

Miquel Batlle

Landscape architect, France, Spain and Taiwan.
Co-founder of the mICHELE&mIQUEL

 

Alison Page

Creative at Director Zakpage

 

Professor Gini Lee

Professor at the University of Melbourne

 

Aunty Beverley Patterson 

Adnyamathanha Traditional Owner

 

James A Lord

Partner at Surfacedesign, Inc

 

Dr Marilu Melo Zurita

Subterranean geographer at the
University of New South Wales

 

Mark Tyrrell

Director at Tyrrell Studio

 

Alison Haynes

PhD Candidate at the University of Wollongong 

 

Professor Alan Collins

Professor at the University of Adelaide 

 

Rodney Welch

Place Leader at City of Port Adelaide Enfield

 

Quahli Newchurch

Community Coordinator - Kaurna at
Firesticks Alliance Indigenous Corporation

 

James Ramsey

Founder of RAAD Studio & Lowline

 

Dr Scott Hawken

Director of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Adelaide’s School of Architecture and Civil Engineering

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Saline Verhoeven

Senior landscape architect at the
City of Rotterdam

 

Dr Jake Robinson

Microbial ecologist at Flinders University

 

Kim Mahood

Australian writer and artist

 

Greg Grabasch

Co-Founder at Brave and Curious

 

Michele Orliac

Landscape architect, France, Spain and Taiwan.
Co-founder of the mICHELE&mIQUEL

 

Dana Shen

Director at DS Consulting

 

Tommy Day

Operator of Jirri Jirri Art & Design

 

Xu Tiantian

Founding principal of DnA_Design and
Architecture Beijing Office

 

Dr Tanya Court

Director of Tanya Court Projects



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The 2023 Festival of Landscape Architecture is taking place in Tarntanya / Adelaide from the 19-22 October. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land the Kaurna people and we pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.