Jessica Stewart is a registered landscape architect, living and working on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country in Melbourne and is an Associate Director at LatStudios. She teaches regularly into the landscape architecture program at RMIT University.
Jess Stewart's Latest contributions
Virtual botanicals
Artist Garth Henderson’s digitally sculpted botanical studies alert us to the ways that digital design can both deepen our appreciation for the natural world and divorce us from our physical and cultural contexts.
Elevating the minor player
Rich in social, aesthetic and environmental worth, small plants yield large rewards – and foster wonder in those who cultivate them.
Making time in practice
Time is a crucial dimension of both landscapes and design, yet our projects are often restricted by limited timelines, static modes of representation and fixed outcomes. How can a richer engagement with time transform our modes of practice?
Adjacent practices: Cultivating an aesthetic of care in design
Aesthetic experiences are embodied and multisensory and influence how we develop as designers. The practices we undertake outside of the studio have the potential to enrich our understandings of landscape and shape our relations with the non-human world.
Wanting words: Language and landscape
Words are powerful. If we don’t have the language to describe our relationship with the natural world and our uniquely Australian landscape features, ecologies and systems, can we successfully design for them?
Transitioning states: Practising in the time of COVID-19
Landscape architects in different areas of practice describe how COVID-19 is continuing to impact their office arrangements, projects and work approach – and where they see the future headed.
Landscape architecture education in Victoria: A discussion
A recent discussion in Melbourne organized by a sub-committee of the Victorian chapter of AILA explored some of the issues currently facing landscape architecture education in the state.
