• • • Landscapes, History, Theory, Design, Research • • •

Christianna is an Albany-based landscape designer and educator who specializes in interdisciplinary practices and pedagogy that bridge the fields of Landscape and Architecture. After growing up in the Albany area, Christianna went on to study landscape architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design and to practice in Los Angeles, Boston, the Adirondacks, and the Hudson Valley. Her pedagogical research draws inspiration from environmental ethics, psychology, and philosophy to explore architecture as a critical cultural and environmental practice. 

Christianna's writing and teaching center environmental ethics, psychology, philosophy, critical theory, and social justice, where she is interested in exploring the the environment through critical historical and philosophical lenses. She is inspired by science and technology scholars and historians of science, where she extends her examination of architectural practices from an interdisciplinary and intersectional lens. Her work interprets how architecture plays a conscious role in cultural production and how architecture can be the source of new socio and environmental practices for bringing individuals in closer contact with their surrounding environments and landscapes. This research and its associated pedagogical models embrace speculative world-building modalities that envision "landscape-machine" scenarios, where landscapes generate architecture and the construction of architecture gives rise to new forms of landscape and environments.

Prof Bennett's work is invested in understanding the emotional impact that environmental imagery and representation have on our relationships to developing a deeper environmental literacy. She explores the power and potential of storytelling to unveil new perspectives on environmental ethics and aesthetics. This work aims to inspire hope and generate new imagination about the future of landscapes, ecologies to form uplifting, healing, and positive social-ecological relations.

Christianna's work is inspired and motivated by the work of a number of individuals, friends, and colleagues, including Evan Douglis, Rhett Russo, Mae-ling Lokko, Elaine Stokes, Andreea Vasile Hoxha, Rawan Al Saffar, Weaam Al Abdullah, Jeremy Kamal Hartley, Hannah Gaengler, Walaid Sehwail, Caleb White, Ryo Imaeda, William Virgil, Alberto deSalvatierra, Zannah Matson, Susan Herrington, Lorraine Daston, Octavia E. Butler, Ray Bradbury, Becky Chambers ... 

Thank you.

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