DR. NINA-MARIE LISTER

Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Ryerson University
Principal, Plandform Studio

BIO

Nina-Marie Lister is Associate Professor of Urban + Regional Planning at Ryerson University in Toronto. From 2009-2013, she was was Visiting Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University, Graduate School of Design. A Registered Professional Planner (MCIP, RPP) with a background in landscape ecology and environmental planning, she is the founding principal of plandform.com a creative studio practice exploring the relationship between landscape, ecology, and urbanism. Lister’s research, teaching and practice focus on the confluence of landscape infrastructure and ecological processes within contemporary metropolitan regions. She is co-editor of Projective Ecologies (with Chris Reed, Harvard GSD and ACTAR Press, 2014) and The Ecosystem Approach: Complexity, Uncertainty, and Managing for Sustainability (with David Waltner-Toews and the late James Kay, Columbia University Press, 2008), and she is author of more than 30 professional practice and scholarly publications. Together with her four sons, she lives, works, and experiments with productive landscapes on a 120 acre family farm on the north shore of Lake Ontario.  Nina-Marie Lister website: http://ryerson.academia.edu/NinaMarieLister

For more information on the LAEP Lecture Series, go to: http://ced.berkeley.edu/events-media/lecture-series/land-lectures-2014/