IFLA EAA GEC WG - Global Education Coordination Working Group
Today, the landscape architecture academia shows varying levels of development in different countries. This discrepancy does not solely depend on a country's level of development; rather, it is influenced by diverse factors such as politics, history, culture, and the local landscape and settlement systems, all of which shape the discipline's focus. While this diversity is not inherently problematic, the transition to globalization and the renewed free movement of professionals -resuming after the long pause caused by the pandemic- is progressively highlighting its importance. Since IFLA fully acknowledges the social, political, and cultural complexity inherent to balancing this diversity with international standards, the Global Education Coordination Working Group was established to continuously reassess education standards in landscape architecture to find novel ways to address issues of diversity and integration while fostering mediation and coordination across world regions.
- Main activity: IFLA education standards overview and development
Global Education Coordination Working Group Members
Rosalea Monacella
IFLA Global Education Coordination Working Group Chair
Rosalea Monacella, Ph.D., holds a faculty position in the Landscape Architecture Department at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. She is a registered landscape architect and has undertaken research on a number of cities around the world, generated urban masterplans for cities in China, the 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 transitioning the urban environment through careful indexing and shifting of dynamic resource flows that inform the landscape of contemporary cities. Her research combines complex urban issues and advanced digital modeling techniques for generating sustainable urban futures. For ten years, she has acted as chief editor of Kerb Journal, leading the journal to become a significant publication in the disciplinary panorama.
Ed Wall
IFLA Global Education Coordination Working Group member
Ed Wall, Ph.D., is Professor of Cities and Landscapes at the University of Greenwich, London, where he leads the landscape architecture and urbanism programmes. His research and teaching explore public space and landscape processes through the lens of spatial justice, bridging theory and practice in design. He has held visiting professorships internationally, including appointments at Politecnico di Milano and Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, and in 2017 was the City of Vienna Visiting Professor at TU Wien. Ed earned his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and holds additional degrees in urban design and landscape architecture from institutions in New York and Manchester. In professional practice, he founded Project Studio as a platform for design research collaborations, with projects exhibited at venues such as the Van Alen Institute and the Royal Academy of Arts. He is a member of the British Landscape Institute and serves on the International Advisory Board of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space at TU Wien.
Wanida Numsuk
IFLA Global Education Coordination Working Group member
Wanida Numsuk, Ph.D., is a full-time lecturer in the Landscape Architecture Program at King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), Bangkok, Thailand. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Sheffield, UK, and holds professional degrees in landscape architecture from Chulalongkorn University. Wanida’s academic and professional pursuits center on urban waterways, heritage landscapes, landscape governance, and nature-based solutions in Thailand. Before joining academia, she gained substantial experience as a landscape designer, specializing in master planning and landscape design. Currently, she participates in national and international working groups focused on nature-based solutions for water management in Thailand, collaborating with Water Sensitive Cities Australia, and has consulted on Bangkok canal projects supported by the Embassy of the Netherlands. Her research appears in leading peer-reviewed journals, including Landscape Research, Sustainability, and Nakhara.
Kira Bre Clingen
IFLA Global Education Coordination Working Group member
Kira Bre Clingen, is a landscape architect and climate design researcher based in the United Kingdom. Previously, she served as the 2023–2025 Daniel Urban Kiley Fellow and Lecturer in Landscape Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where she taught design studios and seminars on climate adaptation. Trained as an ecologist, her research explores participatory visual methods, including place-based scenario planning, to support communities and decision-makers responding to climate change. She has led regional climate adaptation projects at the Harvard Office for Urbanization and is co-founder of the climate design collaborative Apocatopia. Clingen holds MLA and MDes degrees from Harvard and a B.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and a B.A. in Environmental Policy and Asian Studies from Rice University.
Nina-Marie Lister
IFLA Global Education Coordination Working Group member
Nina-Marie Lister, is a professor in the School of Urban Planning at Toronto Metropolitan University, where she founded and directs the Ecological Design Lab. Winner of the 2021 Margolese National Prize for design, Lister is a registered professional planner and landscape ecologist whose work connects people to nature in our cities. Her research, often government-funded and widely published, focuses on green infrastructure design for climate resilience, biodiversity, and human well-being. A recipient of the Canadian Green Building Council’s excellence and leadership award, Lister was nominated among Planetizen’s Most Influential Urbanists. She is currently a visiting professor of landscape architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.