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We are delighted to announce Siri Stokkeland as the recipient of the 2026 Marieluise Jonas Global Practice Scholarship in Landscape Architecture. Established in honour of Marieluise Jonas and her contribution to Landscape Architecture at RMIT, the scholarship celebrates curiosity, exploration and learning through international experience, independent inquiry and cultural exchange.

Siri Stokkeland is a landscape architecture student at RMIT, originally from Norway. Before studying landscape architecture, her background was in art, craft, education and cultural work. She trained as a glassblower and has spent much of her working life teaching and working with young people and creative communities.

Through a self-directed research journey to India and Singapore, Siri will explore how printmaking and material-based creative practices can offer alternative ways of understanding and representing place in an increasingly digital world. She will begin in Bangalore with Studio Printmaking India, then travel to Chandigarh/Mohali for an intensive screen-printing course, spend time at Pulp Studio in Delhi, and undertake workshops at STPI Creative Workshop & Gallery in Singapore.

Congratulations, Siri! We look forward to following the journey. by @rmit_la

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6 days ago

Save the date: November 5-7 is our RMIT Landscape Architecture 2026 Summer Exhibition!

Join us for a celebration of work across the Bachelor and Masters programs from Semester 1+2 2026.

RMIT Design Hub Gallery

Exhibition open
11am-4pm Thursday 5 November – Saturday 7 November

Celebration Event
5-8pm Thursday 5 November

Image credit: Xin Lai by @rmit_la

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17 days ago

Join us for a lecture by 2026 National AILA Future Leader Award Lex Segal, next Wed Sep 23 at 6pm!

The converstaion will be curated by RMIT LA's Dr. Heike Rahmann. Heike will also announce the next recipient of the
Marieluise Jonas Global Practice Scholarship.

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During a Marieluise Jonas Global Practice Scholarship placement with the Climate Rights Project in Norway, landscape architect and emerging researcher Lex Segal was exposed to practices of spatial investigation and artistic research.

This lecture presents international case studies demonstrating how satellite imagery, archival photographs, GPS data, mapping and modelling can be used to investigate events and construct evidence.

In a world that doesn’t trust easily, what makes an image trustworthy? How is evidence constructed? Who gets to decide what counts as evidence? And how can this work support the communities most affected?

Bringing these questions to an Australian context, Lex explores what investigative practices might offer our region and landscape architecture and asks what else we could do with the tools and skills we already have. by @rmit_la

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We are proud to announce that Benjamin Roe, after doing a related seminar’ Fringe Ecologies’ led by Maud Cassaignau in our Masters of Landscape Architecture at RMIT, won together with architecture students from Monash Architecture in the student category the urban design competition SUB-TOPIA with the project “Blackwood Fields”. The transdisciplinary competition aimed to “develop clustered visions for living at the urban fringe. It explored an alternative future for greenfield development in Victoria” This is a testimony to the great transdisciplinary and collaborative capacities our Master is helping students to develop.

The competition was co- organised by Urban Design Forum, the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects AILA, the Robyn Boyd Foundation, the Council Alliance for a Sustainable Built Environment CASBE, the National Growth Areas Alliance NGAA, and The Municipal Association of Victoria MAV. by @rmit_la

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2 months ago

taken in RMIT Design Hub Building 100 by @rmit_la

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Fringe Ecologies is exhibited at The Living Places Exchange, until End of September and as part of Open House Melbourne.

Fringe Ecologies, a Design Research Seminar run in the Master of Landscape Architecture at RMIT, by Maud Cassaignau, reimagined future housing on Australia’s urban fringes for a competition run by Urban Design Forum and Robyn Boyd foundation.

It challenged entrenched models of suburban expansion, exploring how ecology could become the primary framework for shaping new communities. Rather than treating landscape as leftover space, it asked how Country, biodiversity, climate and living systems might drive urban form to produce places that are more resilient, connected and joyful.

The regional Victorian town of Ballan became a testing ground where speculative designs combined landscape architecture, urban design and experimental mapping. The proposals found new ways of clustering housing and infrastructure, liberating land for habitat restoration, productive landscapes and water-sensitive approaches; stitched neighbourhoods through bikeable ecological corridors together with regional parks while creating spaces combining biodiversity, more-than-human experiences with everyday life; maximising shade, ventilation, water reuse and connection. Together, they proposed neighbourhoods where human and ecological communities thrive together. The exhibition presents these visions as provocative alternatives to business-as-usual, demonstrating how landscape-led thinking can redefine Australian settlements.

The seminar was taken by following students: Mary Teresa Augustine, Anh Chau, Isabella Chau, Peishi Hou, Shiyi Li, Margaret Nicolas, Benjamin Roe, Timothy Sterling, Suravi Rani Sutradhar, Matthew Villamil, Isobel Winneke, Sabrina Wu.

Check it out at
https://www.rmit.edu.au/about/our-strategy/living-places-plan/the-living-places-exchange (more on our Linktree - link in bio) by @rmit_la

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3 months ago

As we return to the Design Hub for Sem 2, join RMIT LA for Talking Country with Sophia Pearce and Dr Jock Gilbert, Thursday, 23 July, 11am-12pm.

This lecture uses Professor Martin Nakata's theoretical positioning of 'The Cultural Interface' to examine the relationship between two different knowledge systems - landscape and Country.

Landscape, as a constructed idea, can separate us as practitioners from our environment with often drastic consequences for our surrounds. Rethinking landscape through Country can lead us to a new practice that emphasizes recognition and respect.

Sophia Pearce is a Barkandji woman living in Gol Gol, on the Murray River in south-western New South Wales. As a mother, weaver, and storyteller who values the intergenerational sharing of knowledge, Sophia is deeply committed to preserving and strengthening Aboriginal culture, heritage, and knowledge systems, while also engaging with issues of climate change and renewable energy. A leader of the AUD Yulendj Weelam Lab, Sophia’s research explores relational knowledge and understandings of Country through partnerships grounded in mutual trust, respect and integrity.

Dr Jock Gilbert is a senior lecturer in the Landscape Architecture Discipline at RMIT University. He is the co-founder and co-lead of the Yulendj Weelam Design Research Laboratory. Jock’s research and teaching interests lie in community engagement, regenerative practice and Indigenous-led design research, focussed around the development of regenerative infrastructure through the convergence of concepts of place, Country and landscape. Jock is a registered landscape architect and member of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects.

We hope to see you there!

Image credit: Jock Gilbert by @rmit_la

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3 months ago

Lower Pool Studio 2025: DIST.URB

This studio explored how the seemingly familiar landscape typology of the cemetery could be transformed as a landscape understood as process, designed to change and evolve. We explored different ways of organizing spaces of death, such as renewable tenure, new technologies for dealing in more sustainable ways with the bodies of the dead, such as alkaline hydrolosis and human composting, and an expanded idea of the roles and programs that these large landscapes can accommodate and offer as part of the city. The studio used speculative design techniques and specific drawing and modelling techniques that engage with change and disturbance, including erasure, superimposition etc, to develop and propose reuse alternatives for parts of the existing Fawkner Memorial Park and the design of an underdeveloped part of Northern Memorial Park.

Studio Leader: Associate Professor Katrina Simon

Associate Professor Katrina Simon is a designer and visual artist with a long interest in the ways that memory is embedded in urban landscapes and what happens when those landscapes change, especially through abandonment and disaster with a focus on post-earthquake Christchurch, NZ. Katrina’s other research interests are in design research, the use of cartographic techniques in landscape representation, and specifically the agency of ambiguity in representation and design. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions and has won and placed in a range of art, landscape and urban design competitions and awards. Katrina was Associate Dean, Landscape Architecture at RMIT from 2018 – 2024 and before that had academic roles in landscape architecture in UNSW Sydney and Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland, NZ.

Contact: katrina.simon@rmit.edu.au by @rmit_la

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3 months ago

Please join us for the launch of “Thinking Back, Making Forward: Artistic Research in Practice”

Brad Haylock, Jessica Wilkinson, Charles Anderson (eds.)

Date: Saturday 18 July

Time: 3pm - 5pm

Place: Perimeter Books

734 High Street, Thornbury

In the last three decades, creative practice fields, such as art, design, architecture, creative writing, fashion, and others, have undergone a ‘research turn’, strongly stimulated by doctoral programmes to deepen artists’ reflections on the roots, relevance and urgencies of their work. However, the integration of research into practice has not always been smooth, and the transformations not unequivocally positive.

For Thinking Back, Making Forward, we issued an open call to ask artists, spanning disciplines and nationalities, how PhD research has influenced their making and thinking. Through its thirty contributions, the book tackles this question in an open way, to acknowledge, equally, the advantages and disadvantages of the creep of the PhD into creative practice. Using keywords and creative approaches as connecting threads, the opening and closing texts weave together the chapters of the creative practitioners, showing a wide range of what research in creative practice can entail.

Authors: Annie Bellamy; Nicholas Boyarsky; Jeremie Brugidou; Jessica Bugg; Carla Cruz and Nina Hoechtl; Lionel T Dean; Anne Douglas; David Gates; Ismini Gatou; Joost Grootens; Graeme Harper; Andrew Hodgson; Alexander Hunter; Jessyca Hutchens, Naomi Vogt and Nina Wakeford; Åsa Johannesson; Eduardo Kairuz; Roger Kemp and Anthony Fryatt; Ilona Krawczyk; Victoria Lynn; Clare McCracken & Pia Johnson; Fraser Muggeridge; Yogan Muller; Libby Myers; Gerrie van Noord; Kateřina Olivová; Alvin Pang; Cecilie Sachs Olsen and Matthew Dalziel; Benjamin Sheppard; Alice Twemlow with Anja Groten, Maya Rasker and Andrea Stultiens; Chanda VanderHart

VALIZ, June 2026

Design: Virginie Gauthier, Zuzana Kostelanská, Maud Vervenne

Publishing partner: RMIT University

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www.valiz.nl

Home – Perimeter Books

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Image credit: Valiz

#rmitlandscapearchitecture @rmitdesignhub @rmituniversity by @rmit_la

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3 months ago

Welcome back! 🌿

Join us for drinks and catch-ups at the John Curtin Hotel this Wednesday from 4:00 pm. 🍻

See you there! 🌱 by @rmit_la

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Lower Pool Studio 2025: Atmosphere En Passant

Cities worldwide, including the City of Melbourne, are increasingly integrating climate resilience and adaptation into their urban planning & design efforts. These initiatives encompass creating healthy and thriving ecosystems and waterways, promoting walking and public transportation, implementing building codes to mitigate the impacts of heat, or retrofitting existing urban landscapes. This studio was framed by the concept of climate adaptation (focusing on adjusting to heat through actions and tactics) as opposed to mitigation (preventing or reducing climate change at large scale). By emphasizing atmospheres—as both the micro-climatic quality of air and the ambience of a place—we explored short to midterm strategies to heat adaptation in Macaulay, Melbourne. In doing so, this studio repositioned the conversation into the broader question about how we can ‘measure’ landscape performance and how we want to design and experience our future cities where we live, work and play.

Studio Leader: Dr. Heike Rahmann

Dr Heike Rahmann’s research and teaching focus on innovative design techniques and contemporary urbanism that combine theory, technology and urban ecology, which she explores through critical writing and creative practice.
Heike has published widely including three co-authored books: Tokyo Void: Possibilities in Absence (Jovis, 2014), Landscape Architecture and Digital Technologies (Routledge, 2016) and The Big Asian Book of Landscape Architecture (Jovis, 2020). For her most recent work Landscape Architects as Changemakers. (in collaboration with Jillian Walliss), she produced films and a bi-lateral exhibition that explores award-winning design practices in Australia and Japan. This research, presents a deeper understanding of how landscape architects operate within their own conditions to achieve outcomes that positively contribute to environmental, economic, and cultural futures.

Contact: heike.rahmann@rmit.edu.au by @rmit_la

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4 months ago

This week! Join us for the RMIT LA Midyear Studio Dialogues!

A three-day celebration of the dialogues taking place around Studio and Major Project work from the BLAD and MLA in Semester 1, 2026.

Each day will comprise a morning and afternoon review session, with a Level 10 lunch on the Wednesday and Friday.

In the evenings, @rmitslab and @kerbjournal will host further events, foregrounding student-led discussion.

See you there!

Image credit: Alisha Ali

#rmitlandscapearchitecture by @rmit_la

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