Sara Padgett Kjaersgaard is Director of Landscape Architecture and Senior Lecturer at UNSW Sydney, and a Fellow of AILA. She was Creative Director of the 2017 Festival ‘The Third City’, has served on three National Festival Coordination Committees (2014-2016) and has attended all but one of the Festivals over the past ten-years. She has held leadership positions with AILA including Director of the Board and Company Secretary (2015-2018); AILA WA State President (2013-2015) and served on the National Constitution Review Working Group, Honours Committee, Connection to Country Committee, and acted as National and State (NSW) Awards Chair. Sara has recently been appointed the Chair of the National Education Committee.
Sara Padgett Kjaersgaard's Latest contributions
Building a professional culture: A decade of AILA festivals
Since its inaugural program in 2014, the AILA Festival of Landscape Architecture has brought together members of the profession and related disciplines to share knowledge, challenge disciplinary conventions, forge new relationships and extend community.
Thinking beyond urban: Reconceiving Australia’s peri-urban territories
The peri-urban areas on our cities’ fringes are dynamic territories that host diverse functions. How can landscape architects intervene in these areas to enact a more sustainable future?
