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Dr Heike Rahmann
Dr Heike Rahmann, a landscape architect and urban researcher, is the Program Manager of the Bachelor of Landscape Architectural Design in the School of Architecture and Urban Design.
Dr Rahmann has a background in landscape construction and has worked with various practices within the fields of landscape architecture and urban design. She holds a PhD in Architecture from the University of Tokyo and was a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Science, to undertake research on the culture and ecology of interstitial spaces in Tokyo. Through her work she has established strong partnerships with industry, community and government bodies, especially in Japan, Korea, Germany and Australia.Dr Rahmann researches the intersection of landscape architecture and contemporary urbanism focusing on design practice, theory and urban ecology. Her current work engages with two areas: the application of digital technologies in landscape design and landscape approaches to Asian Urbanism.
Her creative work has been exhibited as part of the Victorian State of Design Festival and MoreArt Public Art Show. She has published widely, including two co-authored books: Tokyo Void- Possibilities in Absence (with Marieluise Jonas, Jovis, 2014) explores notions of vacancy and transformation processes in one of the largest urban areas in the world. Landscape Architecture and Digital Technologies - Re-conceptualising Design and Making (co-authored with Jillian Walliss, Routledge 2016) draws on interviews and projects from a range of international designers and academics to expands the digital realm in landscape architecture practice and education. In 2018, Dr Rahmann has co-edited a special edition of the leading professional magazine in Australia, focusing on Australia's engagement with Asia in relation to design practice and education (Landscape Architecture Australia: Embracing the Asian Century. Heike Rahmann, Ricky Ray Riccardo, Jillian Walliss (Eds.), Issue 157/12018)
Awards
- 2018 AILA VIC Landscape Architecture Award
Research Policy and Communication: Embracing the Asian Century, Landscape Architecture Australia - 2016 AILA VIC Landscape Architecture Award of Excellence
Research, Policy and Communication: Landscape Architecture and Digital Technologies: Re-conceptualising Design and Making
- Program Manager Bachelor of Landscape Architectural Design
- Supervisor of creative practice-based postgraduate student research
- Teaching and coordinating design studios and core subjects at undergraduate and master level
- PhD (UTokyo)
- Dipl.-Ing. (FH)
- Cert III Landscape Construction (apprenticeship)
- Walliss, J.,Rahmann, H. (2023). Digital media and the design project: new creative research methods for landscape architecture In: Landscape Review, 19, 21 - 34
- Rahmann, H. (2021). After Landscape In: After Landscape - Reimagining the Post-Tsunami Landscape Melbourne, Australia
- Walliss, J.,Rahmann, H. (2020). Digital Design: opportunities and challenges for design studios In: Teaching Landscape: The Studio Experience, Routledge, Abingdon, United Kingdom
- Rahmann, H.,Walliss, J. (2020). Where is This Place Called Asia? In: The Big Asian Book of Landscape Architecture, Jovis Verlag, Berlin, Germany
- Rahmann, H. (2020). Scaling Up and Scaling Down In: The Big Asian Book of Landscape Architecture, Jovis Verlag GmbH, Berlin, Germany
- Rahmann, H. (2020). Transformative Forces In: The Big Asian Book of Landscape Architecture, Jovis Verlag GmbH, Berlin, Germany
- Rahmann, H. (2020). Urbanism in a State of Impermanence In: The Big Asian Book of Landscape Architecture, Jovis Verlag GmbH, Berlin, Germany
- Rahmann, H. (2020). Retreat In: The Big Asian Book of Landscape Architecture, Jovis Verlag GmbH, Berlin, Germany
- Rahmann, H. (2020). Slow Living within the Limits of Growth In: The Big Asian Book of Landscape Architecture, Jovis Verlag GmbH, Berlin, Germany
- Walliss, J.,Rahmann, H. (2018). Computational design methodologies: an enquiry into atmosphere In: Codify: Parametric and Computational Design in Landscape Architecture, Taylor and Francis, London, United Kingdom
1 PhD Completions3 PhD Current Supervisions
- Landscape Architects as Change Makers. Funded by: Australia-Japan Foundation (AJF) Grant 2018 onwards from (2022 to 2023)
- How to be a Change Maker: Research and Multimedia Production on Japanese Landscape Design Perspectives. Funded by: Toshiba International Foundation Grant 2015 onwards from (2022 to 2023)
- Computational design strategies for a warming climate: Melbourne and Seoul. Funded by: Australia Korea Foundation Grant from (2016 to 2017)