BIO

Liska Chan

Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture | College of Design

Associate Dean for Faculty | Clark Honors College

University of Oregon

My research focuses on creative geographical methods and methodologies that cut across landscape architecture, environmental humanities, art, and cultural studies. My creative practice involves research into and mapping of historical patterns of human settlement and infrastructure that have left both social and physical legacies in the contemporary landscape. An important thread in my creative practice and writing is landscape perception and the deep influences common perceptions and ideals have on how we see and build places. My creative practice and teaching reference geography, cultural studies, and the role of landscape in the cultural imagination, while being grounded in techniques of drawing, art, and spatial design practices.