Barbara is a researcher and designer, trained in landscape architecture. Her work spans areas of landscape aesthetics, theories of embodiment, affect and emotion, and cultural geography. She approaches sensibility and the intensities of experience as primary means through which we relate to and come to know the world - think the liveliness of landscape, the persuasiveness of an argument, the thrill of adventure. In her research and practice-based work, she is particularly interested in the relations between mind, body and climate; landscape and subjectivity; thought and feeling; urgencies and events; pasts and futures; movement and stasis. She tends to approach these interests from the margins: edgelands, shorelines, rural, undervalued, overlooked and exhausted lands.
Barbara works at the intersection of research, teaching, writing and practice. She is a Lecturer in Landscape Architecture and a PhD candidate at ESALA, Edinburgh College of Art. She holds a MSc from TU Delft, the Netherlands and a BSc from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, both in Landscape Architecture. Prior to her work at ECA, she has taught theory seminars at TU Delft and practiced with design firms in London and Amsterdam.
