Join us for the next event in: Te Whare Wānaka o Aoraki Lincoln University Excellence Series. This series has been designed to showcase leadership in various disciplines including the opportunity to promote the University’s distinctive and impactful applied research. This series celebrates research excellence and promotes a public forum to a broader community, highlighting Lincoln University’s specialist land-based contribution to driving New Zealand’s prosperity and intergenerational wellbeing.
Designing in response to sites of trauma is a fraught process. How can these sites, and all of those connected with them, be cared for through design?
Memorial design raises many issues around emotional landscapes, landscapes as sites of care, issues of equity, ethics, and aesthetics. Through the lens of memorial research, design, and critique, this talk will navigate questions around memorials as landscapes of care. With examples ranging from her involvement in the Pentagon Memorial design competition, to Ōtautahi’s sensitive sites in the wake of the earthquakes, to designing at Pike River, Jacky will examine some of the challenges of caring for sites of memory.
Timings
4.00 pm - Networking and drinks
4.15 pm - Welcome & introduction from LU Vice-Chancellor
4.20 pm - Presentation from Speaker
4.50 pm - Summary
5.00 pm - Networking and questions over drinks and nibbles
5.30pm - Event Ends
About Our Speaker
Professor Jacky Bowring
Ideas of place, memory and emotion enrich our relationship with our landscapes, and memory and emotion are both integral to our understandings of place. This is the focus of my research and I apply critique, design and scholarship to explore this discourse.
My book Landscape Architecture Criticism (2020) is the first book to focus specifically on the practice of critique in my discipline. Critiquing memorials and public art, my essay 'Art Therapy' won the inaugural Michele Whitecliffe art writing award (2021). My specific research in memory and emotion is captured in my book, Melancholy and the Landscape (2016) and my advisory work on public memorials, including selecting memorial designs and liaising on design development, especially for the Canterbury Earthquake National Memorial, Pukeahu National Memorial Park, and designing the memorial facilities for the Pike River Mining Disaster.
I successfully explored these ideas in the international Imagination competition run by LA+ (University of Pennsylvania) to design an island, winning with an entry that imagined an island that is a vessel for memory (2018). Islands were also a focus for designing a nature-based response to climate change for the NUWAO international design competition (2022). My project, Ngā motu ā tōna wā - Future Islands, was placed first equal in the professional category.
I am a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects (NZILA), and In September 2024, I was elected as a Companion of the Royal Society Te Apārangi for innovative careers and scholarship in landscape architecture.
Research profile Jacky Bowring
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