Dr Jillian Walliss

Dr Jillian Walliss has over 15 years’ experience as a landscape architecture academic in Australia and New Zealand. She works in the Landscape Architecture program at the University of Melbourne where she teaches landscape theory and design studios. In 2016 her book Digital Technologies and Landscape Architecture: re-conceptualising design and making will be published by Routledge. Co-written with Dr Heike Rahmann, the book draws on interviews and projects from a range of international designers and academics to explore the influence of parametric modelling, scripting, real-time data, simulation, prototyping, fabrication and BIM on the design and construction of contemporary landscapes. Her most recent work investigates the potential of digital technologies to produce a new generation of urban open spaces, which feature the explicit manipulation of climatic phenomena. In 2011 Jillian’s innovation in teaching with digital technologies was recognised by the University of Melbourne’s prestigious Edward Brown Award.