Dr. Heike Rahmann
Details
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Department: School of AUD
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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heike.rahmann@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID:
0000-0002-4898-0760
Open to
- Collaborative projects
- Industry Projects
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Heike is a Senior Lecturer in landscape architecture at RMIT University. Her research and teaching focus on innovative design techniques and contemporary urbanism that combine theory, technology and urban ecology, which she explores through critical writing and creative practice.
Through her work, she has established strong partnerships with industry, community and government bodies in Australia and Asia, especially in Japan, Korea, and Singapore.
Heike has published widely including three co-authored books: Tokyo Void: Possibilities in Absence (Jovis, 2014), Landscape Architecture and Digital Technologies (Routledge, 2016) and The Big Asian Book of Landscape Architecture (Jovis, 2020). For her most recent work 'Landscape Architects as Changemakers' (in collaboration with A/Prof Jillian Walliss), she produced films and a bi-lateral exhibition that explores award-winning design practices in Australia and Japan. This research, presenting presents a deeper understanding of how landscape architects operate within their own conditions to achieve outcomes that positively contribute to environmental, economic, and cultural futures.
Research fields
- 330109 Landscape architecture
UN sustainable development goals
- 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
- 3 Good Health and Well Being
- 15 Life on Land
- 13 Climate Action
Academic positions
- Lecturer in Landscape Architecture
- RMIT University
- School of Architecture & Urban Design
- Melbourne, Australia
- 2014 – 2019
- Lecturer in Landscape Architecture
- The University of Melbourne
- Melbourne School of Design
- Melbourne, Australia
- 2010 – 2014
- Lecturer in Landscape Architecture
- The University of Adelaide
- School of Architecture, Landscape and Urban Design
- Adelaide, Australia
- 2008 – 2010
Supervisor projects
- The Public
- 10 Jun 2025
- Found In-between
- 22 Jan 2025
- Design Response to Applying Nature-based Solutions for Integrated Urban Water Management in Lower Mekong Region.
- 5 Mar 2024
- Investigating Users Responses to Melbourne's Art in Public Spaces
- 1 Sep 2022
- Landscape Architecture Photography: Practicing Change Indeterminately and the Image Atlas as Critique
- 13 Dec 2018
- Testing Terrain: Exploring the Computational Design of Natural Systems in Landscape Architecture
- 31 Mar 2017
- Structures Behind the Elusiveness: Exploring the mechanism of landscape design processes through a reflective practice in China
- 7 Mar 2016
Research interests
landscape architecture, urban design, urban transformation, urban ecologies, landscape and urbanism in the Asia Pacific region, digital techniques and design thinking , generative practice
