Professor SueAnne Ware

Position	Discipline Head
School / Work Unit	Architecture & Design
Contact Details	+(61 3) 9925 3429 sueanne.ware@rmit.edu.au
Location	Building: 8 Level: 11 Room: 21 City Campus
College/Portfolio	Design & Social Context

Qualifications

2005 RMIT University, PhD

1993 University of California at Berkeley, MLA

1989 Colorado State University, BSLA

2005	Visiting Professor at The University of New Mexico
2004 - currently	Co-ordinator, Post Graduate Program, Landscape Architecture, RMIT University
1999 - 2003	Program Director - Landscape Architecture, RMIT University
1997 - 1999	Lecturer - Landscape Architecture, RMIT University
1993 - 1997	Assistant Professor - LA, North Carolina A&T State University
1995 - 1997	Adjunct Professor - LA, North Carolina State University

University Community Service and Professional associations

2006	DSC Student Assessment Appeals Panel
2001 - ongoing	Australian Institute of Landscape Architects, Associate Member
2000 - ongoing	School of Architecture and Design Research Committee
1993 - ongoing	Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, Senior Member
1993 - ongoing	American Institute of Landscape Architects, Licensed Associate Member
1999 - 2003	School of Architecture and Design Executive Committee
1999 - 2005	Program Advisory Panel
1999 - 2004	Student Staff Consultative Committee

Activities, Honors and Grants

2006	DSC Portfolio Commendation for Emerging Research Supervision 2006
2004	Design Excellence Award, Victorian Chapter, Australian Institute of Landscape Architects for The Road-as-Shrine project
2003	UMAP Grant $18,000, Public Space in Mexico and Melbourne a Comparative study
2003	Victoria Chapter Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Design Awards Jury
2002	National Award for Design Excellence, Anti- Memorial for Heroin Overdose Victims, Australian Institute of Landscape Architects
2002	RMIT Research Innovation Award, An Anti- Memorial for Heroin Overdose Victims
2002	RMIT Undergraduate Research Opportunity Grant - $1400, Road-as-Shrine Project
2001	Melbourne Festival Grant $30,000, Anti-Memorial to Heroin Overdose Victims
2001	Stolen Generations Memorial Competition (RMIT / Melbourne Museum / Link-Victoria ) Competition Organiser and Chairperson
2001	Sydney Meyer Foundation Grant $10,000, Stolen Generations Memorial Competition
1997 - 2002	Victoria AILA State Design Awards Jury (2000 - 2001 Chairperson)

Postgraduate Thesis Examiner and Peer Reviewer

2004 - ongoing	Australian Research Council Discovery Grant Assessor – Expert assessor of international standing
2004 - ongoing	Peer Reviewer for Landscape Journal
2003 - ongoing	Peer Reviewer for The Society of Architectural Historians in Australia and New Zealand Conference (SAHANZ)
2002 - ongoing	Peer Reviewer for Landscape Review
2000 - ongoing	Peer Reviewer for The Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Conference (CELA)
2000 - ongoing	Peer Reviewer for The International Congress on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)
2004/6	Peer Reviewer for the Australian Institute of Landscape Architecture Biannual Conference (AILA)
2005	Peer Reviewer for Inside / Out, Interior Design Educators Association Conference.
2005	Pennsylvania State University, MLA examiner
2005	Colorado State University, MLA examiner
2004	University of South Australia, MArch examiner
2003	University of Melbourne, MLA examiner

Invited speaker, Critic and Workshops

2006	Anti-Memorials: Cultural expression and practices in modern landscapes QUT Dean’s Lecture Series
2006	Memorials and the Uncanny, University of Adelaide, Landscape Architecture Visiting Lecture Series and guest critic
2006	Public Art Colloquia, master class and postgraduate seminar, University of South Australia
2005	Landscape and Memory: The ephemera of place, UNM Northrop Lecture Series
2005	Anti-memorials: Re-thinking the landscape of memory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, School of Natural Resources Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series
2005	Australian Landscape and the Art of Memory, The University of California at Berkeley, Landscape Architecture Program Lecture series and guest critic
2005	Border Stories, Invited Guest Critic and Workshop Speaker, The University of California at Los Angeles, Architecture and Design Colloquia Series
2005	Australia and the USA, contested Borders, Utah State University, Dean's Lecture Series
2005	Anti-Memorials and Post S11 Design Work, Pennsylvania State University, Deans Lecture Series and guest critic
2004	Why Memorials?,The University of Georgia, Postgraduate Seminar and studio critique
2004	Dry Places, The University of Nevada at Las Vegas, student design workshop and guest critic
2004	Mexican and Australian Memorial Landscapes, ITSEM –Monterrey, Mexico, Presidente' Lectura Passages e Architectura
2004	Seven Cities and Fluctuating Borders, Exhibition of Student Work and Seminar from UMAP project, RMIT University
2004	Roadside Memorials; a landscape of meaning, Meeting Place Regional Arts Conference, Ballarat, Victoria
2004	Victoria Road Accident Trauma learning seminar, Invited speaker and participant
2004	Mildura Rural Community Youth Association, invited speaker and workshop participant
2003	Seven Cities: Seeing Mexico from the outside in, UDLAP – Puebla, Mexico, student workshop, design critic and organizer
2003	Fluctuating Border Workshop Mexico City, Mexico., Collaborative workshop with IBERO Mexico City, RMIT Melbourne, San Diego New School of Architecture, ESUA Guadalajara, TECM Mexico City, UDLAP Puebla
2001	Indigenous Memorials and Design Competitions Indigenous Culture and Design Education Symposia (Invited speaker) Adelaide University 2001

Research Supervision

Completed Students (Masters of Landscape Architecture)

2005	Tim O'Loan, 'The Urban Yard: Emergent Inner-urban Open Space'
2004	Cesar Torres 'Metapark'
2004	Patrick Franklin, 'On the Margins'
2003	Shree Shaw, 'Heartline Riverfront Development'
2003	Jo Russel-Clarke, 'Casket Creek'
2002	Josie Dujmovic, 'Refiguring Memory'

Current PhD Students (as senior supervisor)

Joanne Russell-Clarke - 'Suburbs and the Architecture of Irony: Desiring, Designing and Delivering Utopia'

Yvette Dumergue - 'Surface Imperfections: and the spaces in-between'

Gabriele Knueppel - 'in|site: sensory and spatial coherence in interior architecture'

Zhang Dian - 'Cemetery Evolution: A History of Landscape Architecture about Cultural Practices of Memory and Sentiment'

Current Masters Students (as senior supervisor)

Scott Adams - 'Time and emergence: designing the non-instant landscape'

Chaya Bratoeva - 'Designing for the Urban Void: non-plan, terrain vague, and landscape nothingness'

Ritsuko Katsumoto - 'Space of transcendence: A Process of becoming'

Li Tang - 'Ten Minute City: Mass transit stations which adapt to the temporary shifts of density and the rapid growing urban fabric'

Lingling Qiu - 'The Unique Character of A Site – Central Plaza in Guangzhou, China'

George Wright - 'HYDROLOGICAL POLITICS & CULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURE - The Landscape of Common Sense'

Current Masters Students (as second supervisor)

Craig Douglas, 'Landscape Generator / Operator'

Sarah Qiong Shi, 'Hybrid City -Water as a spatial frame for Shanghai Housing'

Volunteer, community and activities

2004 - ongoing	Sievx Memorial Organisation, offer design and construction expertise, grant application assistance
2003 - ongoing	Active member of the Survivors of Ovarian Cancer Network, offer support and advise to women of ages facing cancer issues
2004	Volunteer for Daffodil Day
2004	Volunteer Mentor for Youth-at-Risk Program, City of Yarra

* Denotes peer refereed publication

Design Research

2007	Monacella, Rosalea and Ware, SueAnne, Fluctuating Borders: Memory and the Emergent, New Possibilities for International Borders Monacella, RMIT Press, Melbourne (May 2007)
2006	'The Commonwealth versus Melbourne's Public Space'* SAHANZ Conference Proceedings, Perth (October 2006)
2006	'Time, Ephemera, and Memory: An Australian Case Study'* International Federation of Landscape Architecture Conference Proceedings, Sydney, Australia, pp. 78 – 92
2005	'Memory Slips: Speculations in Australia Anti-Memorial Design'* CELA Conference Proceedings. The University of Georgia, Athens GA, pp. 48 -62
2004	Social Infrastructure and Landscape Design (Book Chapter) in Mesh /Infrastructure Eds. Raxworthy, Julian and Blood, Jessica, RMIT Press, 2004 pp. 120-129
2004	'The Nature of Design', * AILA Conference Proceedings, Brisbane 2004, http://www.aila.org.au/research/refereed/2004.htm
2004	'The Road-as-Shrine: A Case Study in Design Process over Product'*, Landscape Review, volume 9:1 pp.226-230
2004	'The Road-as-Shrine and other Anti-Memorials in Australia'*, Roadside Memorials: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach Conference, University of New England, Armadale, NSW pp. 48 - 70
2004	'Rethinking the Landscapes of Australian Public Memory'*, Environmental Design Research Association Conference Proceedings, Albuquerque, New Mexico, pp. 69 - 75
2004	'Contemporary Anti-Memorials and National Identity in the Victorian Landscape'*, Colonial Post - Journal of Australian Studies, no. 81, 2004, pp.121-134
2003	'The Ecology of Contemporary Landscape Design'*, SAHANZ Conference Proceedings, The University of Sydney, Sydney, pp. 338-343
2003	'Contemporary Memorials: Ephemeral and Impermanent Installations in Australia'* International Conference on Historic Monuments and History, Savannah, Georgia pp. 108 - 130
2001	'Contemporary Australian Design and the Anti-Memorials'*, Australia ICOMOS Conference (International Council on Monuments and Sites) Adelaide University, Adelaide, Fall 2001 vol 12, pp. 56 - 72
2001	'Racism by Design, The Cleve Gardens'* in Critiques of Built Works of Landscape Architecture, LSU School of Landscape Architecture, Baton Rouge, LA, pp. 23 - 30

Scholarship of Teaching

2005	'Studio Andragogy' Journal of Design Education, vol 9, no 1, pp. 65 - 78
2004	'Fluctuating Borders: Speculations about Memory and Emergence'*, co-authored with Rosalea Monacella, SAHANZ Conference Proceedings, Melbourne 2004, pp. 331 - 334
2003	'Representation, Generation, and Emancipation in Virtual Landscapes'* Landscape Review, August 2003:8 (1) pp. 3 - 11
2002	LA_Boratory RMIT (Book Chapter) in Technique: Graduate Design Research at RMIT Landscape Architectures, Eds. Connolly, Peter and Van der Velde, Rene RMIT University Press, 2002 pp. 200 - 212
2001	'Hybrids in Landscape'* MESH Conference, RMIT University, pp. 39 - 47
2001	'A Luddite Approach'* Virtuality in Landscape Architecture Conference Bernburg, Germany, Anhalt University pp.78 - 96
2000	'Silicon Luddite: A Virtual Landscapes Studio'*Re-inventing Design Education Conference Curtin University of Technology, Perth December 2000 pp 381 - 386
2000	'Honouring the Stolen Generation – a theoretical anti-memorial'* Landscape Review, 1999:5 (2) pp. 43-58

Professional Practice Journals and Student Exhibition Catalogues

2005	'Whose Past?' Landscape Australia, vol 27(2), Issue 106 May 2005 pp. 12 - 17
2005	'Memory and Parks' Landscape Australia, vol 26(1) Issue 105 March 2005, pp. 19 - 21
2004	'Why Landscape', KERB The Journal of Landscape Architecture, Issue 13, pp.22 - 25
2004	'When Landscapes Mean Nothing', Landscape Architecture Magazine, vol 7 July 2004, pp. 23-28
2004/2005	Finito, Landscape Architecture Final Year Exhibition Catalogue, Editor and author of various essays critiquing student work
2003	'The New, Improved Yarra River', KERB The Journal of Landscape Architecture, Issue 12, pp.22-25
2003	Finito, Landscape Architecture Final Year Exhibition Catalogue, Editor and author of various essays critiquing student work
2002	'A Postcard from Mexico', KERB The Journal of Landscape Architecture, Issue 11, pp.31 - 35
2002	Finito, Landscape Architecture Final Year Exhibition Catalogue, Editor and author of various essays critiquing student work
2001	'Reconciling this Place,' Architecture Australia vol 90, no5 September / October pp 40-42
2001	'Jumping into the DEEP END,' Architectural Review Spring 2001 pp 37 –41
2001	'Critical Reflections on the (re)design of indigenous sites and community participation outcomes' KERB The Journal of Landscape Architecture, Issue 10, pp.28 - 30
2000	'Grimm: A Cemetery Studio (Part II)' KERB The Journal of Landscape Architecture, Issue 8, pp.52 - 58
2000	'Grimm: A Cemetery Studio (Part I)' KERB The Journal of Landscape Architecture, Issue 7, pp.36 - 40

Exhibitions and Design Research Projects

2003 - ongoing	The Road-as-Shrine, Churchill Victoria
2005	Turn Left at Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Architecture Gallery, Albuquerque, NM.
2005	Anti-memorials: Re-thinking the landscape of memory, ’PhD Exhibition, The Artery Gallery, Fitzory, Victoria
2004	The Road-as-Shrine project included in the 2004 State of Design Exhibition at the Melbourne Museum
2002	Suburbia Revisited, Melbourne International Garden Show Exhibition
2001	An Anti-Memorial to Heroin Overdoses, Melbourne Festival Installation St Kilda, Victoria October 11 - November 3 2001.
2001	Stolen Generations Memorial Competition, Melbourne Museum, Carlton Victoria, Exhibition Curator