Mike Harris and Alexandra Farrington: Joint Winners of the 2007 HASSELL Landscape Architecture Travelling Scholarship

Since 1990 HASSELL has presented an annual scholarship to a final year student of landscape architecture in Australia who demonstrates outstanding potential for future contribution to the landscape architecture profession.  The award sum is spent on overseas travel to explore significant urban renewal or redevelopment.  The joint winners of the 2007 HASSELL Landscape Architecture Travelling Scholarship are Mike Harris from the University of New South Wales, and Alexandra Farrington from the University of Western Australia.

Alexandra's research proposal, Filter Instigate Activate, explored the intention to establish the Swan River as a destination through designed intervention and celebrate it as a living system.
Mike's project, Climate Alignment, was an investigation into the possibilities that emerge when civic spaces are shaped in response to site specific climatic conditions. The aim is to test how infrastructure, local processes and the public realm can synthesise into dynamic, efficient and engaging urban landscapes.

HASSELL leader of landscape architecture Julieanne Boustead notes that the standard of the final year student projects this year was particularly high which is promising for the future of the Landscape Architecture profession.
Congratulations to Mike, Alexandra and all the students who were shortlisted for the Award.

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