Email: B.Prezelj@sms.ed.ac.uk

Programme: Landscape Architecture - MPhil/PhD

Start date: September 2020

Mode of study: Full time

Research title: Urgency Felt: Landscape Practices of the Event

Barbara Prezelj is a landscape architect, designer and researcher. She is currently in the second year of her PhD which explores landscape’s qualitative metrics as they play out within landscape presentations and their appeal to the future. Her work sits at the intersection of landscape theory, aesthetics, affect theory and philosophy of mind.

Prior to starting her PhD, Barbara received a MSc in Landscape Architecture from TU Delft, the Netherlands (2016) and a BSc in Landscape Architecture from University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (2013). Barbara has previously taught theory seminars at TU Delft and  worked professionally as a landscape architect in London, Amsterdam and Ljubljana.

Barbara Prezelj's PhD research project explores landscape’s qualitative metrics as they play out within landscape presentations and their appeal to the future. The working hypothesis of her study is that by critically engaging with the dynamics between landscape presentation and reception and by positing experiential/evental aesthetics as central to that process, landscape architecture might regain its political dimension, one that is suited to the contemporary condition of both our social reality and our practice.

Her work sits at the intersection of landscape theory, aesthetics, affect theory and philosophy of mind.