Jen Lynch

Jen Lynch is a registered landscape architect whose teaching and research focus on the commons as an alternative reading of landscape. Her work explores ‘commoning’ approaches to practice and pedagogy, which support collective creativity while responding to intersecting issues that shape the neoliberal built environment.

Jen collaborates with industry partners and creative practitioners on projects that respond to conditions of ‘enclosure’—the privatisation or commercialisation of spaces like the studio, the university, housing, and public space—and which promote active relationships between land and community.

Jen’s most significant projects include:

• Interdisciplinary discussions, exhibitions and creative works with landscape research collective Second Place (2017-present).
• Supervising editorship of Kerb, RMIT's student landscape architecture journal (2024-present).
• Public space-focused studios with the City of Melbourne (2022-present).
• An RMIT Strategic Impact Grant-supported podcast series around ‘commoning’ approaches to Australia’s housing crisis, co-produced with Ally Hanly (Saltgrass host) and Associate Professor Andrea Sharam (RMIT housing researcher) (2023).
• Quarry Pedagogies, a repair-focused summer camp curriculum developed with These Are the Projects We Do Together (2023).
• The Expanding Field, The Australian Insitute of Landscape Architecture (AILA)’s 2018 International Festival of Landscape Architecture (with TCL).
• Point Nepean National Park Master Plan (with TCL), which received a 2018 AILA National Award.

Jen is currently a PhD candidate. Read more about her research here