Brent Greene
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Dr Brent Greene’s teaching and research focus on urban ecological design that engages with spontaneous plants, queer ecology, marginalised landscapes, and post-industrial urban renewal. His design research methods investigate the impact of cultural values on urban ecological design and aim to expand perceptions and design approaches/values of spontaneous urban plants in the metropolis.
Brent has recently collaborated with Zoos Victoria, the City of Port Phillip, the Singaporean landscape practice Salad Dressing and RMIT’s PlaceLab division. Through these partnerships, Brent’s design research has explored spontaneous plants in various ways (in post-industrial urban renewal projects, nature play designs, re-wilding projects, and the memorialisation of LGBTIQ+ communities).
Currently, Brent is collaborating with academics Dr Heike Rahmann and Dr Maud Cassaignau (RMIT Landscape Architecture), RMIT PlaceLab and Salad Dressing to test potentials for urban rewilding in the Melbourne’s Innovation District (MID). This project investigates the beneficial role of spontaneous urban plants from multiple perspectives, including their capacity to withstand extreme heat and drought events, provide habitat for urban fauna, evolve cultural perspectives of urban ecology, reduce labour and financial inputs from municipal governments, and cool the city through urban greening.
Brent’s most significant projects include his PhD from The University of Melbourne (2023), an article for the Journal of Landscape Architecture (2023), the MID Rewilding project with Rahmann and Cassaignau (2023 ongoing), and a funded design research report for Zoos Victoria (2021).
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