Announcing the 2024 Landscape Performance Case Studies Program Teams!
Curtin University, Exchange Precinct Stage One Public Realm
Photo: Damien Pericles
Monash University, Southern Precinct Landscape
Photo: Drew Echberg
The Landscape Foundation of Australia has selected two teams and projects for its inaugural round of the Landscape Performance Case Studies Program (LPCS).
Commencing in February 2024, the LPCS Program will help build a deeper understanding of ‘landscape performance’ and the range of benefits delivered for positive and sustainable environmental, social and economic outcomes specific to Australian landscape conditions.
The projects and teams to be funded by LFA in the 2024 LPCS Program are:
Exchange Precinct Stage One Public Realm, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia
Academic lead: Peter Newman, Professor, Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute (CUSP)
Student Research Assistant: Issana Burhan, PhD student
Practice: REALMstudios
Practice Liaison: Damien Pericles, Director
Southern Precinct Landscape, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria
Academic lead: Jock Gilbert, Lecturer, RMIT Landscape Architecture
Student Research Assistants: Jasjit Banga and Anna Durkin, both PhD students
Practice: ASPECT Studios, Melbourne Studio
Practice Liaison: Warwick Savvas, Senior Associate
The Program will start in early February and run through October. Detailed case studies produced by the teams will inform future landscape planning and design for practitioners as well as policymakers, to promote targeted and effective restoration and management of natural environments and urban landscapes in Australian cities and towns.
The LPCS Program is modelled on the long-running Case Study Investigation (CSI) Program developed by the US-based Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) for their Landscape Performance Series. The Foundation has a MOU with LAF to collaborate in developing this program in Australia.
The case studies produced by LPCS research teams will be added to a LFA database of Australian case studies and will be eligible for inclusion on LAF’s online, searchable archives of projects that is publicly available from early 2025.