University of Guelph - Landscape Architecture Guest Lecture Series presents:

Rosalea Monacella [1], PhD.  Faculty - Design Critic in Landscape Architecture, Harvard University - Graduate School of Design

Lecture title:  "Matters of Ground" 

Rosalea Monacella is a registered Landscape Architect and has undertaken research on a number of cities around the world, generated urban masterplans for cities in China, USA, South America, Europe and Australia that explore design at the nexus of the urban and natural environments, and has been the recipient of a number of national and international awards and grants related to her practice-based research as co-founder of the OUTR Research Lab at RMIT University Melbourne, Australia.

Rosalea’s expertise is in the transitioning of the urban environment through careful indexing and shifting of dynamic resource flows that inform the landscape of contemporary cities. Her research brings together complex urban issues and advanced digital modelling techniques for the generation of sustainable urban futures. Her design approach is one that simultaneously considers forces from the ’ground-up + top-down’ through a careful and rigorous exploration of complex economic, ecological, and social systems that shape an ever-changing city.

For ten years, she has acted as chief editor, leading the development of Kerb Journal to become a significant publication in the discipline that engages and challenges the discourse of landscape architecture.  She holds a PhD from RMIT University, a Masters in Landscape Urbanism from the AA School London, UK, and a Bachelor of Architecture from RMIT University.

This lecture is supported by the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects.

Contacts:  Landscape Architecture Guest Lecture Coordinator:  Nadia Amoroso [2], Associate Professor.  To obtain Zoom link please contact the LA Speaker Series Student Assistant: Sana Al-Naseri  [3].  This event is rescheduled from January 29 to February 5th.  The same Zoom link will be used.