Guanyu Chen specialises in Landscape Performance Evaluation and Evidence-Based Design, focusing on better understanding the actual performance of built environments. His research contributes to enhancing the rigour of landscape architecture practices while helping landscape architects more effectively communicate the values that their design projects offer. Drawing on a performance-oriented and evidence-based approach, his research collaboration spans a range of research areas, including peri-urban landscape planning, urban agriculture, environmental valuation, design education, and design methodology. He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in landscape ecology, spatial design approaches, and planting design and management. He also supervises at the PhD level. He serves as a member of the Lincoln University Human Ethics Committee, ensuring research involving human subjects is conducted responsibly and ethically.

Jacky Bowring is Professor of Landscape Architecture at Lincoln University, New Zealand, and a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects. In 2024, she was elected a Companion of the Royal Society Te Apārangi, for her “innovative career and scholarship in landscape architecture”. She has research interests in memorial landscapes, design theory, and design critique, and has published three books: A Field Guide to Melancholy (2009), Melancholy and the Landscape: Locating, Sadness, Memory and Reflection in the Landscape (2016), and Landscape Architecture Criticism (2020).  Jacky continues to practice as a landscape architect and was recently equal first place in the international competition for nature-based solutions to climate change, run by NUWAO: Nature-based Urban design for Wellbeing and Adaptation in Oceania.

N/A