Barbara Prezelj

Barbara Prezelj is a Lecturer in Landscape Architecture and a PhD candidate at ESALA, Edinburgh College of Art. She holds a MSc from TU Delft, the Netherlands and a BSc from University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, both in Landscape Architecture. Prior to her work in academia, she has worked professionally as a landscape architect in London, Amsterdam and Ljubljana.

Barbara’s work sits at the intersection of non-representational theory, affect studies and process philosophy. Her PhD thesis titled Urgency Felt: Landscape Practices of the Event explores urgency as affective/bodily significance and adopts the realm of experience as an object of design. Arguing that landscape design is primarily a cultural and experiential practice, the thesis explores what it would mean, for a design argument, to take the experiential/affective register as seriously as the more manifestly material and epistemological register of socioecological performance.