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 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).
Supervisor projects
Negotiating commemorative landscapes: Processes and practices of memorial design in Canberra
23 Feb 2024
Teaching interests
• 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)
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.