Professor Jacky Bowring elected as Companion of Royal Society Te Apārangi

Landscape Architecture Professor Jacky Bowring has been elected as a Companion of Royal Society Te Apārangi for her innovative career and scholarship in landscape architecture.

For four decades, Professor Bowring has been bringing together scholarship, design practice and design critique to connect knowledge and its application in the built environment.

A longstanding Lincoln University staff member and alumna, she was awarded the Critic and Conscience of Society Award in 2021.

The Critic and Conscience of Society Award recognises academic staff members who have most notably contributed to Lincoln University’s role as a critic and conscience of society. Nominated by staff and students, the award is only presented when a nominee is considered by the judging panel to have provided the public or government with an exceptional level of independent, expert commentary on national or global issues that affect societies and future generations.

In 2021, Professor Bowring was also presented with the inaugural Michèle Whitecliffe Art Writing Prize by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, and she also won the Lincoln University Excellence in Education Award.

Professor Bowring specialises in memories and memorials and has been part of the public discussion about rebuilding Ōtautahi Christchurch since the 2011 earthquake. She has served on the Christchurch City Council’s Urban Design Panel since 2014.

Her list of publications includes her 2020 book Landscape Architecture Criticism which focuses on the practice of critiquing memorials and public art, and her 2017 book Melancholy and the Landscape which captures her research in memory and emotion.

Dedicated to carrying out research-informed teaching with strong course design and delivery, Jacky is known for devoting care and attention to students’ learning needs.

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