Fiona Harrison
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Fiona Harrison is a registered landscape architect whose teaching and research explore embodied practices and participatory ways of knowing that situate human beings as continuous with the living world. Her practice responds to issues of ecological decline and biodiversity through a micro lens, paying careful attention to the dynamics of above and below ground conditions while also considering landscape through multiple perspectives, including the ‘eyes’ of other-than-humans; design is approached as a process of ‘seeing in time’ which requires being in-the-field, developing the capacity to be present, and responding to the dynamics of what is emerging.
Creative collaboration is integral to Fiona’s teaching, research, and design. Fiona participated in A Collection of Fluid Spaces, an international research project by Bodycartography (research collective ‘Austra-pod’ Vanessa Chapple, Jaye Hayes, Camilla Mailing, Rivka Worth), the outcomes of which were shown at the National Medical Museum, Oslo, Norway, in 2022. She consults and collaborates on the design of gardens and public spaces, most recently collaborating with Kersten Thomas Architects and Simon Ellis Landscape Architect on the Museum of Modern Art forecourt at Monash University. Several of her projects have been awarded by the Australian Institute of Landscape Architecture. Fiona has explored practices of drawing and time with Associate Professor Marian Macken (Auckland University) including ‘Marking Time’ in Representing Landscapes: Analogue (2019) and ‘Performing Drawing in Time’ in LA+ TIME Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture (2018). She co-edited Live Projects: Designing with People with Professors Melanie Dodd and Esther Charlesworth (2012), guest edited an issue of Landscape Review ‘Gardens as Urban Laboratories’ (2016), and authored Growing Gardens Growing Dialogue, which explores gardens as spaces of learning.
Fiona is a current PhD candidate. Read more about her research here
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