Your NameAnna
Cohort AssignmentCohort C (Aotearoa)
1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life?

Landscape Architecture

2. What role do you see as yours to play?

Designing outcomes that are mutually beneficial to the environment/ecology and community/sociology
Engagement with community and mana whenua
Advocating for the environment and holistic wellbeing
Creating places that benefit the current and future generations

3. What goals or aims do you have in regard to the above?

To be working on projects where I feel I am achieving this
To develop how this comes through in my work / field of work / future work

6. What have you invested in to get you where you are?

2years backpacking through countries observing, learning and experiencing
8years into the Landscape Architecture profession
Certificate in Permaculture
Bachelor of Landscape Architecture
Schooling

4. Where do you feel your next arenas for personal growth are?

Continue to develop succinct / effective ways to communicate
Continue to develop effective listening and engagement skills
Assessing where best to be putting my time into from a regenerative and resilience design perspective

7. What fields of learning and which thinkers have been important in your life?

Most important 'fields' of learning have been through interactions with other people; family, friends, colleagues, strangers, and nature. Travelling extensively, Outward Bound + Spirit of New Zealand. While these aren't traditional facilities for learning, more processes for learning; they are places that I have learnt a lot about myself, others & the world.

Parents / family / people around me + interactions I've had with people. Colleagues + lecturers, Adrian Morten, Henry Crothers, Leslie Haines, Piet Oudolf, Bill Bryson, David Holmgren. Permaculture, field of dreams theory, patch corridor matrix, the Vedas

5. And for professional growth?

Improving design skills
Improving ways of communicating the value of environmental + social focus, opposed to purely economical
Continue to develop succinct / effective ways to communicate; especially in relation to topics such as resilient and regenerative design

8. Can you frame your philosophy or cosmology of life? What role(s) do humans play in it?

Humans are just one small part of the greater fabric of life, sitting alongside / amoungst nature and the environment.
We can not control nature, only work with it. The world/earth sustains us, allowing us to continue to be here.