Associate Professor Katrina Simon
Associate Dean Landscape Architecture
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Associate Professor Katrina Simon’s teaching and research focus on the ways memory is embedded in urban landscapes, particularly in the design and history of cemeteries and memorials and in landscapes that have been altered through events such as abandonment, flooding, and earthquakes. Linked to this focus is design research into cartographic techniques that creatively extend landscape representation and design techniques that combine site specificity with the generative potential of ambiguity. She has explored these research areas through design competitions, collaborative exhibitions, workshops, and refereed publications and has extended this research through design studio and seminar teaching.
Katrina has collaborated with Associate Professor Simon Twose at Victoria University, Wellington on an extended series of projects that work with drawing and mirroring to develop expanded practices of landscape visualization in complex changing urban landscapes. Katrina has also worked on design projects that provide greater variety in the options for disposal of human remains and for remembrance in response to changing environmental and societal conditions.
Katrina’s significant projects include residencies with the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Art Nature and Dance in New York and at the Cite International des Arts in Paris, a number of solo and group international exhibitions on the themes of landscape, ambiguity including at the Prague Quadrennial for Performance Design and Space, and numerous premiated design competition entries including, a finalist team entry for the international competition for the Christchurch Earthquake Memorial.
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