Staff Profile
Professor Catherine Dee
Visiting Professor
Visiting Professor in Landscape Architecture Arts, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape.
Catherine Dee is an artist and academic specialising in landscape architecture arts and design education, drawing and illustration.
Her art practice and academic work are closely linked and broadly concern the development of landscape architecture as an art of necessity at a time of ecological crisis. She is well known for her critical and accessible approaches to arts education encouraging a broad conception of landscape architecture as fluid spatial improvisation interfacing nature and cultural realms and processes. Her longstanding creative practice in drawing and experimental design with urban trees, wilderness and gardens aims to unearth fresh, simple and durable ways to practice landscape architecture for all. International contributions include the best-seller ‘Form and Fabric in Landscape Architecture’(2001): an introduction to thinking spatially about landscape; ‘To Design Landscape: Art Nature and Utility’ (2012) which sets out practices for an ethical aesthetics of thrift; and the innovative peer-reviewed European Journal of Landscape Architecture (JoLA )as one of its founding editors, also conceiving and editing the critical visual essay section of the Journal: ‘Thinking Eye’. She is currently making two books: ‘Urban Landscape Design with Trees’ and the first in a series of landscape architecture arts pocket books:‘Drawing’.
CONTACT:
Email: catherine.dee@newcastle.ac.uk