Yazid Ninsalam

Yazid’s teaching is grounded in the belief that landscape architecture education must be both critical and applied—equipping students not only with technical skills but with the capacity to navigate the social, cultural, and environmental complexities of contemporary practice. His teaching spans undergraduate and postgraduate levels, where he integrates fieldwork, digital tools, and design research into immersive learning experiences. Whether guiding studios on post-disaster resilience, urban transformation, or ecological infrastructure, Yazid brings students into close contact with real-world contexts, locally and internationally, through partnerships with government, industry, and community stakeholders.

He has led and coordinated a range of design studios and core courses at RMIT including Environments 4, Communications 1 and 2, and taught into MLA Research Seminars, Studios, and Project A and B. His teaching draws from a wide palette of methods: live projects, mapping, fabrication, and critical theory; helping students understand landscape not just as a surface to be shaped, but as a system of relationships, histories, and futures.

Yazid’s studios often deal with urgent global challenges, from urbanisation and climate change to heritage loss and material extraction, and encourage students to ask difficult questions while experimenting with new forms of spatial representation. Guest speakers from global institutions and cross-cultural field intensives have helped students connect design thinking to larger planetary concerns. At its core, his teaching is about empowering students to become thoughtful, agile, and accountable designers—able to work across disciplines, across cultures, and across scales.