IFLA Working Programme 16 - Technology and Innovation

Goal: Explore and promote the integration of technology in landscape architecture practice, including Al, AR, VR, IoT, digital design tools, performance simulation, smart technologies, and data-driven approaches.

Impact: Enhance the efficiency, innovation, and sustainability of landscape architecture practice through the integration of technology.

Working Programme Members

Director - Heike Rahmann

Heike Rahmann is landscape architect and urban researcher, is the Program Manager of the Bachelor of Landscape Architectural Design in the School of Architecture and Urban Design. Dr Rahmann researches the intersection of landscape architecture and contemporary urbanism focusing on design practice, theory and urban ecology. Her current work engages with two areas: the application of digital technologies in landscape design and landscape approaches to Asian Urbanism.

Co-director - Shaun Rosier

Shaun Rosier is a landscape architectural and urban designer. He previously taught at Victoria University of Wellington's Landscape Architecture Programme, where he also received a Practice-based PhD in landscape architecture. Shaun's work seeks to challenge assumptions of landscape, capitalism, settler-colonial systems, research, and ways of looking at the world through a speculative-realist lens by asking "what could be" rather than "what should be".

Other members of the Working Programme

Claudia Yu

Fiona Nyadero

Jacob Jenkins 

Kumar Rahul Verma

Megan Randerson

Pia Fricker

Richard L Hindle