Usue Ruiz Arana

Usue Ruiz Arana

Usue is a chartered landscape architect, researcher and educator. Her research and scholarship are concerned with advancing Landscape Architecture as a discipline uniquely positioned to address planetary health, biodiversity and climate crises, and social and eco-justice. To that end, she researches in the cross-cutting fields of acoustic ecology, multispecies collaborations and 'research by design’. Her keen interest in design and art as forms of research informs her role as "Thinking Eye" editor of the peer review Journal of Landscape Architecture - JoLA

Landscape architects usually think of compact greenery as the sound buffer minimizing noise pollution but we rarely think about specifically designing with sound, acoustics of space and the soundscape present at the site of intervention. Especially in the art scene, the sonification of plants, microbes, underwater creatures and their otherwise unheard processes, gained special attention […]

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