Dr. Scott Hawken

Scott Hawken is an Associate Professor in Landscape Architecture and the Director of the Landscape Architecture and Urban Design programs at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He is a Landscape Architect, Urban Designer, and Landscape Archaeologist who uses design and geospatial technologies to understand and shape past, present, and future ecologies. He received his PhD in Archaeology from the University of Sydney in 2012. He has worked at the UNSW, Sydney, as part of the Urban Development and Design Program for nine years, and prior to that, he worked with leading landscape and urban design practices such as Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture, Room 413, and Terragram, as well as the NSW Govt Architect. He is the Chair of AILA’s National Biodiversity Positive Working Group and a strong advocate for creative design and planning that addresses the biodiversity crisis. Theoretically, his research spans critical urban scholarship, radical political ecology, and landscape archaeology. Methodologically, he makes use of high-end geospatial technologies including GIS, remote sensing, Geodesign, and on-the-ground surveys to enable the integration of “big-data” into real-world applications. His work on smart cities theory seeks to identify how digital technologies are changing cities.