EMILY WETTSTEIN

Emily is a tenure track Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia (UVA) School of Architecture.

She is a co-founder of the Seeding Pedagogies Collaborative and initiator of the Tending to … series to begin in the fall of 2023.

Her current research runs in two distinct yet related projects, sharing a foundational grounding in marginalized sites and subjects. The first is her research and design of pedagogies, as grounded in the Seeding Pedagogies Collaborative. An example of this work is a Student as Site Pedagogy, which seeks to approach students in the way that design, and particularly landscape architecture, approaches sites, with attention to situation, position, and identity, and generative of their own specific potentialities to be embraced in the co-production of a more inclusive design education. The second project, titled Liminal Landscapes of Reckoning, researches the potential of liminal sites to facilitate critical confrontation and dialogue, currently focusing on the New Jersey Meadowlands as Site | Non-Site and Mapping Morenci sited in Morenci, Arizona (in collaboration with landscape photographer Sam Oberter).

Emily was previously a Design Critic in Landscape Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design where she taught studios, and courses in representation and climate change. She has also taught core urbanism and options architecture studios at Northeastern University. She holds both Master of Architecture (MArch) and Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) degrees from the Harvard GSD.

If you are interested in working together    ...    emily.wettstein@gmail.com