Claudia Taborda “Nature or the unsolvable question on dwelling”.

October 22 at 10:00 we will host Claudia Taborda, landscape architect and academic from QUT, Brisbane Australia. Her lecture is entitled “Nature or the unsolvable question on dwelling”.

Claudia Taborda studied Landscape Architecture at the University of Évora and holds an MLA from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is a senior lecturer in Landscape Architecture at the QUT School of Design, lecturing on the history of landscape and leading design studios. Her research interest centres broadly on the contemporary landscape project and its relation to architecture. 

She has lectured in Europe, USA and China in landscape architecture and architecture programs, and has practiced in Portugal, at Global arquitectura paisagista, Lisbon, and in China at standardarchitecture, Beijing. From 2001-2003 she was the Director of Serralves Park in Oporto, Portugal.

She was the curator of LISBOSCOPIO for the Portuguese Official Representation at the 10th International Architecture Exhibition Venice Biennale (2006); she co-curated the exhibition Places and Transitoriness: space, thinking, re-action (2007), and the conference Architecture [IN] ]OUT[ Politics (2010), both for the Lisbon Architecture Triennale. Her writings have appeared in magazines and catalogues internationally.

Aesthetics of Architectural and Urban Research course, led by Aslıhan Demirtaş, investigates architectural production beyond buildings and explores research and design work of speculative and provocative nature.

The 2020-2021 semester critically explores the Anthropocene and climate change while problematizing the ‘museum of natural history.’ Students will reevaluate the what, how and why of a natural history museum of a damaged planet while considering the urgencies of today highlighted further by the pandemic. The course is enriched by guest lecturers of various disciplines.