Marieluise Jonas

Biography

"Dr Marieluise Jonas is a Senior Lecturer in Landscape Architecture. She is a landscape architect and urban researcher and has practiced in Germany, Japan and Australia.Marieluise holds a PhD from Tokyo University where she researched the practice and tradition of informal use of space in dense urban conditions. She is affiliated with the University of Tokyo through urban research and post disaster reconstruction projects in Tohoku. In 2013 the Australia Japan Foundation funded a research symposium that Marieluise led in Kesennuma. A key focus of Marieluise’s practice is the engagement with materiality and a notion of immediacy. In teaching, her approach focuses on on-site experimentation, site interventions and making where she can draw on a background in landscape construction. The 2014 book publication Tokyo Void Possibilities in Absence co-authored with Dr Heike Rahmann is a reflection on the ongoing investigation of urban vacant spaces in Tokyo. The research focus on urban vacant spaces has extended from Tokyo to other Asian metropolises, Europe, USA and Australia and has been published in Journals and book chapters. The enquiry of design research practice in Landscape Architecture is another key focus. The 2012 book publication Exposure 00 co-edited with Rosalea Monacella is a first in a series of mappings of contemporary practice approaches in Landscape Architecture."

Research Interest

Design research in landscape architecture; complexity and emergence