STAFF PROFILE
Dr. Brent Greene
Dr Brent Greene's teaching and research focus on urban ecological design that engages with spontaneous plants, queer ecology, marginalised landscapes, and post-industrial urban renewal. His design research methods investigate the impact of cultural values on urban ecological design and aim to expand perceptions and design approaches/values of spontaneous urban plants.
Brent has recently collaborated with Zoos Victoria, the City of Port Phillip, the Victorian Pride Centre, Midsumma Festival, the Singaporean landscape practice Salad Dressing and RMIT's PlaceLab division. Through these partnerships, Brent's design research has explored spontaneous plants in various ways (in post-industrial urban renewal projects, nature play designs, re-wilding projects, and the memorialisation of LGBTIQ+ communities).
Currently, Brent is collaborating with academics Dr Heike Rahmann and Dr Maud Cassaignau (RMIT Landscape Architecture), RMIT PlaceLab and Salad Dressing to test potentials for urban (re)wilding in the Melbourne's Innovation District (MID). This project investigates the beneficial role of spontaneous urban plants from multiple perspectives, including their capacity to withstand extreme heat and drought events, provide habitat for urban fauna, evolve cultural perspectives of urban ecology, reduce labour and financial inputs from municipal governments, and cool the city through urban greening.
Brent's most significant projects include his PhD from The University of Melbourne (2023), a published article for the Journal of Landscape Architecture (2023), the MID (re)wilding (2023 ongoing), and a funded design research report for Zoos Victoria (2021).
- Program Manager of the Bachelor of Landscape Architectural Design (2024 - 2026)
- Lower Pool Design Studio coordinator (2020 - 2023)
- Coordinator of Environments 1 and Communications 3 (2017 - ongoing)
- PhD (The University of Melbourne)
- Master of Landscape Architecture (The University of Melbourne)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts - Printmaking (The Victorian College of the Arts)
- Greene, B.,Walls, W. (2023). Wood for the trees:Design and policymaking of urban forests in Berlin and Melbourne In: Journal of Landscape Architecture, 18, 94 - 103
- Walls, W.,Greene, B. (2023). Grounding Woody Meadows: examining the application of horticultural research into landscape design In: Landscape Review, 19, 36 - 44
- Greene, B.,Johnson, F. (2020). Millennial Urban Park Design in Melbourne and Wellington: How Divergent Colonial Foundations within the TransTasman Bubble Impact Landscape Practice In: Proceedings of the 37th The Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand Conference (SAHANZ 2020), Perth, Australia (Online), 18-25 November 2020
- Greene, B. (2020). Designing Melbourne’s E-Gate Brownfield: A novel urban renewal strategy foregrounding ecological performance and toxicity In: Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Design Research Conference (ADR 2019), Melbourne, Australia, 3-4 October 2019
- Greene, B. (2016). Anti-aestheticizing Australian Landscape: Compounding Historical Narratives within Pictures In: Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language Australia
- Greene, B.,Rahmann, H. (2014). Glitterosophy: the good, the bad and the ugly In: Landscape Review, 15, 24 - 46
- Greene, B. (2013). Glitterosophy In: Glitterosophy Melbourne, Australia
1 PhD Current Supervisions