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Landscape Architecture: Reimagining Petrie Plaza

Course information

Dates 8 - 12 July 2024
Time 9.30 am - 12.30 pm
Cost $79
Delivery UC Campus
Commitment 5 days (15 hours)
Enrolments close 3 July 2024

About the course

Landscape Architects create the places between buildings - sometimes these are large regional parks, like all the parks around Lake Burley Griffin. Quite often they are spaces like Petrie Plaza. When Landscape Architects start thinking about these spaces they know that they are going to grow and change over time. That is the fun part, imagining how they might grow as we try to create cool places for people and wildlife to enjoy.

You will:

  • Produce your own ideas to improve Petrie Plaza.
  • Produce a plan and some images that can go in an exhibition.

Course requirements

Open to all students in Years 10, 11 & 12.

Course presenters

Learn from industry experts

Gay Williamson

Gay Williamson

Senior Lecturer in Landscape Architecture

Gay Williamson FAILA, RLA is Senior Lecturer Landscape Architecture in the Faculty of Art and Design at the University of Canberra. Gay is a Registered Landscape Architect and in recognition of her long, continuing and energetic contribution to the profession was made a Fellow a generation ago! Gay is a rare Landscape Architect having worked in Local, State, Commonwealth Governments, in private practice and as an academic. She has led multi-disciplinary design teams and been responsible for preparing strategic plans (one for Canberra), urban design schemes (including the Parliamentary Zone) and has designed many public parks and numerous gardens. Gay has chaired and served on advisory boards and design competition juries. Everyday, in a long, diverse career, Gay has thanked her good fortune of stumbling into studying Landscape Architecture.

Dr Julian Raxworthy

Dr Julian Raxworthy

Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture and Discipline Lead for Landscape Architecture

Dr Julian Raxworthy is Associate Professor and Discipline Lead: Landscape Architecture in the Faculty of Art and Design at the University of Canberra. A registered landscape architect in Australia, he undertakes projects as FREE-RANGE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS, his own practice since 2008. He has been on faculty at RMIT (Melbourne), QUT (Brisbane) and the University of Cape Town, and has been visiting professor at l’École nationale supérieure de paysage Versailles and the University of Virginia. He has published several books, his most recent book is Overgrown: practices between landscape architecture and gardening, which was published in 2018 by The MIT Press, and was supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.

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