Nina-Marie Lister

Nina-Marie Lister is graduate program director and associate professor in the School of Urban + Regional Planning at Ryerson University. From 2010-2014, she was a visiting associate professor of landscape architecture and urban planning at Harvard Graduate School of Design.[1] Her career has spanned private and public-sector work, integrating science and policy with planning and design. As both a researcher and founding principal of PLANDFORM, a creative design practice, Lister focuses on the intersection of landscape infrastructure and ecological processes in metropolitan areas.[2]

Nina-Marie Lister
OccupationGraduate program director and associate professor, School of Urban + Regional Planning at Ryerson University
Known forLandscape

Ecology

Urbanism

Background and education

A registered professional planner (MCIP, RPP), Lister has post-graduate training in ecology, environmental science, and landscape planning, and urban planning. As a researcher, teacher, and practitioner, Lister uses an integrated design-research approach to explore resilience and adaptive systems design in urbanizing regions. Emphasizing ecosystem complexity and biodiversity, her work is positioned at the confluence of landscape, ecology, and urbanism. She founded PLANDFORM in 2006.[2]

Professional career

At Ryerson University, Lister founded and directs the Ecological Design Lab, a collaborative incubation innovator and experimental generator that aims to advance ecological design research and practice.[3] She is a member of the Ryerson Urban Water Centre, where she contributes work on designing resilient green and blue infrastructure for flood-friendly cities.[4] Since 2016, her work has been funded by a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant and a Graham Foundation publication grant.[5]

In her professional practice, Lister regularly collaborates with international design firms on submissions to juried competitions and exhibitions, with a particular focus on speculative and built works in metropolitan areas. [6] In 2010, she served as the Professional Advisor for the ARC International Wildlife Crossing Design Competition, which focused on creating a wildlife bridge at the Vail Pass in Colorado.[7] Her work has been featured in international exhibitions, including the 2016 Venice Architectural Biennale, where she contributed to Canada's entry, EXTRACTION, an examination of Canada's role as a global resource juggernaut. She is the curator and director of XING - (re)connecting landscapes, a permanent exhibition at the Toronto Zoo exploring the relationship between wildlife, human development, and urban infrastructure.[8]

She is the co-editor of Projective Ecologies (with Chris Reed, Harvard GSD and ACTAR Press, 2014) and The Ecosystem Approach: Complexity, Uncertainty, and Managing for Stability (with David Waltner-Toews and James Kay, Columbia University Press, 2008).[9] In addition to authoring over 40 professional and scholarly articles, including contributions to Design With Nature Now (Lincoln Land Institute, 2019), Nature & Cities: The Ecological Imperative in Urban Planning & Design (Lincoln Land Institute, 2016), Is Landscape…Essays on the Identity of Landscape (Routledge, 2016), Ecological Urbanism (Harvard GSD with Lars Müller Publishers, 2010), and Large Parks (Princeton Architectural Press, 2008, winner of the J.B. Jackson Book Prize), Lister has served as guest editor of the Journal of Ecological Restoration.[10]

Lister was awarded an honorary membership in the American Society of Landscape Architects in recognition of her international leadership in ecological design.[11] She was also named Senior Scholar with the Centre for Humans and Nature in 2012.[12]

Major publications (editor)
  • Projective Ecologies (with Chris Reed. Harvard and ACTAR Press, 2014)
  • The Ecosystem Approach: Complexity, Uncertainty, and Managing for Stability (with David Waltner-Toews and James Kay. Columbia University Press, 2008)

Exhibitions

Awards
  • Honorary Membership: American Society of Landscape Architects
  • Senior Scholar: Centre for Humans and Nature[13]

References
  1. "Nina-Marie Lister, 100 Women". TCLF. 27 February 2020.
  2. "Nina-Marie Lister | Ryerson University - Academia.edu". ryerson.academia.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-29.
  3. "Who We Are | Ecological Design Lab". ecologicaldesignlab.ca. Retrieved 2020-02-29.
  4. "RUW Researchers". Ryerson University. Retrieved 2020-02-29.
  5. "Nina-Marie Lister". 2016 woltz symposium. Retrieved 2018-11-15.
  6. Inc., Advanced Solutions International. "Nina Marie Lister". www.aila.org.au. Retrieved 2018-11-15.
  7. Green, Jared (2011-06-07). "Interview with Nina-Marie Lister on Ecological Urbanism". THE DIRT. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
  8. "Nina-Marie Lister (director, curator) | XING (Re)Connecting Landscapes". Retrieved 2020-03-01.
  9. "Nina-Marie Lister - School of Urban and Regional Planning - Ryerson University". www.ryerson.ca. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
  10. "Who We Are | Ecological Design Lab". ecologicaldesignlab.ca. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
  11. "Nina-Marie Lister, Author at The Nature of Cities". The Nature of Cities. Retrieved 2018-11-15.
  12. "Second Wave of Modernism III: Leading with Landscape |The Cultural Landscape Foundation". tclf.org. Retrieved 2018-11-15.
  13. "Nina-Marie Lister | Center for Humans & Nature". Center for Humans & Nature. Retrieved 2018-11-15.
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