Dr. Scott Hawken is a Landscape Architect, Urban Designer, and Landscape Archaeologist, and his research and teaching bring together these three disciplines in creative ways.
He is a strong supporter of the transdisciplinary thinking required to tackle the major problems of our time. Scott is the Director of the Landscape Architecture program at the School of Architecture and Civil Engineering at the University of Adelaide. He works across the architecture and landscape architecture programs in the school and convenes graduate courses in Landscape Architecture, Architecture, and Urban Design.
Scott is a world authority on the landscape systems of Angkor, the largest city in the pre-industrial world. He has presented his work on the BBC and National Geographic documentaries, speaking about his research in the field. His archaeological academic background is backed up with extensive field expertise in mainland and peninsula Southeast Asia.
He has published invited papers in eminent journals and volumes. Currently, he is editing a special issue for the leading journal "Urban Studies". The special issue synthesizes Archaeology and Urban Planning and Design. He is further developing this line of inquiry relating it to contemporary questions of patch urbanism and low-density urban landscapes using a mix of methods including advanced geospatial approaches and patch and network analytics.
As a result of his expertise in urban development, Southeast Asia, and megaprojects, Scott was invited to consult with the United Nations' High Commissioner for Human Rights in Kuala Lumpur. This resulted in UN policy documents and peer-reviewed publications published in the journals "Cities" and "Sustainable Cities and Society".
Theoretically, Dr. Hawken's research spans critical urban scholarship, radical political ecology, and landscape archaeology. Methodologically, he makes use of high-end geospatial technologies including GIS, remote sensing, and on-the-ground survey to enable the integration of "big data" into real-world applications.
He is a strong supporter of the transdisciplinary thinking required to tackle the major problems of our time. Scott is the Director of the Landscape Architecture program at the School of Architecture and Civil Engineering at the University of Adelaide. He works across the architecture and landscape architecture programs in the school and convenes graduate courses in Landscape Architecture, Architecture, and Urban Design.
Scott is a world authority on the landscape systems of Angkor, the largest city in the pre-industrial world. He has presented his work on the BBC and National Geographic documentaries, speaking about his research in the field. His archaeological academic background is backed up with extensive field expertise in mainland and peninsula Southeast Asia.
He has published invited papers in eminent journals and volumes. Currently, he is editing a special issue for the leading journal "Urban Studies". The special issue synthesizes Archaeology and Urban Planning and Design. He is further developing this line of inquiry relating it to contemporary questions of patch urbanism and low-density urban landscapes using a mix of methods including advanced geospatial approaches and patch and network analytics.
As a result of his expertise in urban development, Southeast Asia, and megaprojects, Scott was invited to consult with the United Nations' High Commissioner for Human Rights in Kuala Lumpur. This resulted in UN policy documents and peer-reviewed publications published in the journals "Cities" and "Sustainable Cities and Society".
Theoretically, Dr. Hawken's research spans critical urban scholarship, radical political ecology, and landscape archaeology. Methodologically, he makes use of high-end geospatial technologies including GIS, remote sensing, and on-the-ground survey to enable the integration of "big data" into real-world applications.
