Jury comment
The projects in this year’s Landscape Student Prize include a scheme for a system of novel habitats that balances the needs of both human and non-human inhabitants, a project that addresses women’s safety in urban environments, and a design for a coastal site that addresses sea-level rise and encourages greater environmental stewarship.
The jury is pleased to announce by Hiu Ying (Jenny) Tin of The University of Melbourne as this year’s national winner. The project explores the complexities of engaging First Nations narratives in built environment projects and tests how landscape architects can decolonize their design practices. The project creates strategies that disturb existing relationships, unsettling established ways of thinking about the site and its many components and layers. Its success resides in developing tactics that enable us to reexamine and reconsider familiar ground. This opens up
