Joshua Zeunert

Joshua Zeunert is a Scientia Associate Professor at UNSW in Sydney, and an AILA Registered Landscape Architect. Josh is passionate about improving environmental and social conditions through creative yet grounded approaches to thinking and acting. He is a researcher, teacher, author, speaker, and consultant.

Joshua specialises in environmental design and strategy. He is fascinated by the Earth’s dynamics in relation to human activities, anthropogenic impacts, and landscape-scale change over time. Given agriculture’s monumental role in making and remaking ecologies, he has a particular interest in food systems and the nexus of cultural practices and landscape outcomes.

Joshua has published three books including the multi-award-winning Landscape Architecture and Environmental Sustainability: Creating Positive Change through Design (Bloomsbury, London, 2017), lead editor for the award-winning Routledge Handbook of Landscape and Food (Routledge, London, 2018, with Tim Waterman), in addition to various book chapters, journal articles and other research outputs.

Josh is a Scientia Associate Professor at UNSW in Sydney. He was previously a Lecturer at Deakin University in Australia from 2015-18, at Writtle School of Design in the UK from 2012-15, and the University of Adelaide in Australia from 2010-12. When in design practice, Josh was also a casual academic at the University of New South Wales from 2007-09 and a casual academic at the University of South Australia in 2010.