Dr Alice Lewis
Lecturer
Lecturer
DSC | School of Architecture and Urban Design
Performing Dress Research Group (RMIT University, Aalto University, UAL)
Email: alice.lewis@rmit.edu.au
Campus: Melbourne City
- ORCID
Dr Alice Lewis is a lecturer in landscape architecture at RMIT University. She completed a PhD in 2020 exploring ways of engaging humans as caregivers for landscapes. Her research and teaching continues to work with embodied human action as an inescapable constituent of landscape systems and the most abundant resource we have to hand. Her approach to pedagogy builds directly on this research, which is often collaborative and interdisciplinary, and aims to cultivate practices of care between and for human and non-human environments.
Dr Lewis is interested in landscape architectural education as a place where the innovative and experimental practices needed to face our challenging future can be explored and developed. Pedagogies are focused on nurturing and developing cohesive and future-focused structures for learning that support both students and staff to make real world impact and contribute to timely conversations, such as those around climate and reconciliation.
In an expanded landscape architecture practice, Alice Lewis explores interdisciplinary and performative approaches for engaging the generative force of citizen action to cultivate ongoing awareness and care for societies and ecosystems.
Care, Landscape Architecture, Embodiment, Prostheses, Landscape, Performativity
Dr Lewis’ practice-led research develops an expanded landscape architecture practice working with interdisciplinary and performative approaches for engaging the generative force of citizen action to cultivate ongoing awareness and care for societies and ecosystems.
Research outputs are often practical and collaborative creative works that develop innovative and low-cost ways to bring people into connections with non-human environments. collaborators include Parks Victoria and Sustainability Victoria.
Award date: 2014
Recipients: Alice Lewis
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.