Pierre Bélanger is Associate Professor of Urbanism, Landscape, and Ecology at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.
Trained as a landscape architect and urban planner, he teaches graduate and postgraduate courses on the convergence of ecology, media, infrastructure, and urbanism in the interrelated fields of design, planning, and engineering. As author and editor, Dr. Bélanger has published several books and projects including “LANDSCAPE AS INFRASTRUCTURE,” “ECOLOGIES OF POWER” co-authored with Alexander Arroyo, Pamphlet Architecture 35 “GOING LIVE: from States to Systems,” (pa35.net), and Harvard Design Magazine #39 “WET MATTER” co-edited with Jennifer Sigler (@lowlowtide).
As practicing designer, he received the Canada Prix de Rome in Architecture and was Curator & Director for the controversial Canada Pavilion and Exhibition “EXTRACTION” at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale (@1partperbillion). In collaboration with a range of creators and scholars, he is currently completing an edited volume titled “EXTRACTION EMPIRE”, profiling the scales, states, spaces, and systems of Canada as the largest extraction nation on the planet.