IMMATERIAL WORLDS

Interview

Since founding her Bangkok-based practice Sanitas Studio in 2010, Sanitas Pradittasnee has created works that blur the boundaries between art and landscape, reinterpreting traditional ideas for a rapidly changing urban context.

In preparation for her visit to Melbourne to speak at the Landscape Australia Conference on 11 May, Pradittasnee spoke with Landscape Architecture Australia about metaphorical space, material meaning and changing attitudes through design.

Landscape Architecture Australia: You studied landscape architecture first, worked for several years and then went to London to study fine arts. What inspired this combination?

Sanitas Pradittasnee: After I graduated [in landscape architecture] I started to be interested in art. I didn’t want to be limited only to the functional or the aesthetic [in landscape practice], I wanted to make work that was more meaningful and memorable and I saw art as a starting point to creating more depth in my work. I