Ms. Alice Lewis
Lecturer, Landscape Architecture
Details
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College: School of AUD
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Department: School of AUD
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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alice.lewis@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0003-1524-9207
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
- Industry Projects
About
Alice Lewis is a lecturer in landscape architecture exploring ways of engaging humans as caregivers for landscapes.
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.
Key projects:
Brunswick Appropriated: Forming an Infrastructure-Oriented Democracy (2019)
This project developed a series of maps and hypothetical mobile applications to enable people to occupy space in democratic ways as a way of reclaiming ownership of the space. This project was completed as part of a Memorandum of Understanding between RMIT University, Creative Victoria and Moreland City Council exploring the future of the newly identified Brunswick Design District.
Intervening in the Antropos(c)ene – Working Group Project (Maria Island, Tasmania 2016)
A 3-day working group of international academics exploring how we might begin intervening in the Anthropocene using an array of devices and divisive conversations. Findings were presented in a short symposia at the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Tasmania.
Dressing Affectively (Ongoing Participatory Exhibition 2015-2017)
A participatory exhibition exploring the role of dress in everyday landscapes. This exhibition was shown at the Victorian College of the Arts (Melbourne, Australia), Aarhus School of Architecture (Aarhus, Denmark) and the Boras School of Textiles (Boras, Sweden).
Night Brigade – Creative Work (2013-2015)
A small-scale fashion line exploring how reflective clothing can help change urban street dynamics. The project ran for 2 years and received an award for innovation from the Australian Cycling Promotion Fund in 2014.
Award:
2014 Australian Cycling Promotion Fund – Reignition for Innovation
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.
Key projects:
Brunswick Appropriated: Forming an Infrastructure-Oriented Democracy (2019)
This project developed a series of maps and hypothetical mobile applications to enable people to occupy space in democratic ways as a way of reclaiming ownership of the space. This project was completed as part of a Memorandum of Understanding between RMIT University, Creative Victoria and Moreland City Council exploring the future of the newly identified Brunswick Design District.
Intervening in the Antropos(c)ene – Working Group Project (Maria Island, Tasmania 2016)
A 3-day working group of international academics exploring how we might begin intervening in the Anthropocene using an array of devices and divisive conversations. Findings were presented in a short symposia at the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Tasmania.
Dressing Affectively (Ongoing Participatory Exhibition 2015-2017)
A participatory exhibition exploring the role of dress in everyday landscapes. This exhibition was shown at the Victorian College of the Arts (Melbourne, Australia), Aarhus School of Architecture (Aarhus, Denmark) and the Boras School of Textiles (Boras, Sweden).
Night Brigade – Creative Work (2013-2015)
A small-scale fashion line exploring how reflective clothing can help change urban street dynamics. The project ran for 2 years and received an award for innovation from the Australian Cycling Promotion Fund in 2014.
Award:
2014 Australian Cycling Promotion Fund – Reignition for Innovation
Supervisor projects
- Performative Inhabitation: (Re) searching through real time encounters
- 10 Mar 2022
Teaching interests
Supervisor interest areas:
Landscape Architecture
New Materialism
Care Practices
Programs (https://www.rmit.edu.au/study-with-us/architecture/landscape-architecture):
Master of Landscape Architecture
Bachelor of Landscape Architectural Design
Landscape Architecture
New Materialism
Care Practices
Programs (https://www.rmit.edu.au/study-with-us/architecture/landscape-architecture):
Master of Landscape Architecture
Bachelor of Landscape Architectural Design
Research interests
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.
Research keywords:
Care, Landscape Architecture, Embodiment, Prostheses, Landscape, Performativity
Research output summary:
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.
Research keywords:
Care, Landscape Architecture, Embodiment, Prostheses, Landscape, Performativity
Research output summary:
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.
