Professor Gini Lee
Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Melbourne
AILA Registered Landscape Architect
Dr Gini Lee is a landscape architect and interior designer and
Gini Lee is a landscape architect, interior designer and pastoralist and is Professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia and was the Elisabeth Murdoch Chair of Landscape Architecture (2011-2017). Prior to this she was the Professor of Landscape Architecture at Queensland University of Technology (2008-2011) and Head of School at the University of South Australia (1999-2004), moving to academia after many years in Landscape Architecture and Interior Design practice and consultancy based from her Melbourne studio.
Her academic focus in research and teaching is on cultural and critical landscape architecture and spatial interior design theory and studio practice, to engage with the curation and postproduction of complex landscapes. Focusing on arid environments, her multidisciplinary research into the water landscapes of remote territories contributes to the scientific, cultural, and Indigenous understanding of and management strategies for fragile landscapes. Her recent landscape curation and installation practice is an experiment with postproduction and Deep Mapping methods to investigate the cultural and scientific landscapes of remote and rural Australia, Scandinavia, global archipelagos and the arid lands of western USA. From 2014-2018 she was an invited researcher at SLU Malmo where she collaborated in fieldwork based research into transect travel methodologies.
She is a registered landscape architect and contributes to the strategic planning, design and practice of urban and educational landscapes in Melbourne and beyond, was the past Executive Editor of the IDEA Journal (2009-2011), a past member of the Queensland Heritage Council (2010-2011) and the past Chair of art + place for Arts Queensland prior to leaving the State for Victoria. She was an appointee to the New Zealand PBRF as international expert for design (2003, 2006, 2011-2012), to the City of Melbourne’s Parks and Gardens Advisory Committee (2012-) and Chairs the University’s Landscape and Open Space Committee.
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FEATURED Book Chapter
Fundamentals of Placemaking for the Built Environment: An Introduction
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Projects
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Project Types
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Research Grant
2
Research Contracts
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Internal Research Grant
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
Prize for PhD by Project, Faculty of the Constructed Environment: "The Intention to Notice: the tour, the collection and ordinary landscapes"
University of South Australia Supported Researcher for 2005, 2006, 2007
Credentials
Positions
Professor Of Landscape Architecture
Architecture, Building And Planning
Education
Architecture
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Landscape Architecture
University of Melbourne
Interior Design
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology