Studio 4/03

Climate Resilient Landscape Planning Strategy

Jenny Yu

This studio is available to students enrolled in ABPL90170 Landscape Architecture Studio 4.

Studio Description

The decreasing of natural forests has caused a great deal of native flora and fauna species becoming vulnerable, endangered and extinct due to timber logging. The loss of vegetation is considered to be one of the influential factors for climate change. As the largest ever environmental protection initiative, the Victorian Forestry Plan will transit timber industry havesting timber from native forest into plantations and farmed timber to protect native forests for the future.

In consideration of the impact on the timber industry, the studio is to enhance students’ abilities to use GIS applications to digitise and analyse data to make critical decisions in establishing research based landscape planning strategies for the best possible forest restoration solutions. The aim is to identify the sustainable strategies for balancing ecological restoration and environmental protection of natural forests and economic continuity of timber industry workers in Victoria.

Studio Outcomes

In developing their projects, students will focus on collecting and digitizing relevant data using GIS applications and establishing the development and protection strategies. By learning in GIS tutorials, students will develop skills in GIS for spatial analysis, landscape capacity analysis to assist in decision marking. For the second half of the studio, students will be challenged to set up rationales and strategic moves to guide landscape planning process, which responds to data analysis and future development plans. In research on the Victoria Forestry Plan and relevant government initiatives and plans, students will learn how to use GIS as a tool to develop landscape planning proposal in a professional manner.

Studio Leader

Jenny Yu is the Founding Director of JF Studio – a landscape planning and design practice in Melbourne. She is an advocate and practitioner of digital technology in landscape architecture industry. She has professional experiences in both public and private sectors in China, Australia, and the US since 2010. Her passion in education is to inspire the younger generations and advocate the power of landscape architecture for both people and the environment from a high level of thinking in planning to the detailed consideration in design. In 2018, her planning and design project received regional shortlist in City Future Challenge Competition, which was involved with GIS applications in urban climate and morphologies. As the Design Lead at JF Studio, she works with local governments for multi-million public projects in reserve improvement, play space design and laneway upgrade. She also works with communities and kindergartens for sustainable landscape design and playground design projects

Schedule Lecture: Thursdays 12:00-13:00; Studio: Thursdays 13:00-19:00

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