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Hello! I am a landscape historian, theorist, maker and teacher, with a background in landscape architectural design, postmodern dance, nonprofit management and ecology. I have two decades of experience in landscape teaching and practice: guiding others to research living sites and articulate new landscape visions. I am one half of Living Site Land Studio, one half of Burrows, and a maker of Unruly Earths.

Most recently an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto, I have been an Assistant Professor at Université de Montréal and taught at University of Buffalo, Cornell University, California Polytechnic State University – San Luis Obispo, and University of Detroit Mercy. My writing can be found at the Center for Humans and Nature, PLATFORM, Journal of Design History, and Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes. As a designer, I have worked for Conger, Moss, Guillard, the Detroit Collaborative Design Center, and various San Francisco-based landscape architecture firms. I hold a Ph.D. in the History of Architecture and Urbanism from Cornell University, a Master of Landscape Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Swarthmore College.

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MARGOT LYSTRA

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