Jela Ivankovic-Waters is a PhD student at the University of Melbourne, researching transitional strategies for landscape architecture practices working in the digital realm.
Jela Ivankovic-Waters's Latest contributions
Women in innovation leadership
Four women in built environment design leadership talk innovation, incremental change, and communication that helps bring people along for the journey.
Reframing innovation
Guest editors of the “Reframing innovation” issue Jela Ivankovic-Waters and Darren Hickmott on innovation in the landscape architecture industry.
Ground-up transformation: Decolonizing the garden
At a residential property in Melbourne’s outer north-east, a design approach grounded in close observation, manual tending and incremental moves embraces the agency of the landscape and its transformative opportunities.
Embracing the innovation debate
Innovation is needed in order to adapt and thrive, yet landscape architecture has generally been slow to engage in these conversations. But, what does it mean to innovate – and how can landscape architects be involved?
A multisensory approach: Wildness and Wellbeing
A recent book by Zoe Myers critically explores how spatial interventions can improve our mental health by connecting us to nature.
Fine-tuning the planting design cycle
Green wall and roof garden projects pose many challenges to good planting design outcomes, particularly synergizing design intent and management. How can the processes be improved?
BIM: Something we should talk about
Irrespective of whether building information modelling (BIM) is being adopted by Australian landscape architects, it is only a matter of time before it begins to affect the way they practise.
