ZannahÌýMatson
- Assistant Professor
- LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Green Infrastructure | Geography | Landscape History
ZannahÌýMatson’sÌýresearchÌýandÌýdesignÌýworkÌýfocuses on the histories and contemporary reinterpretations of landscapes throughout processes of extraction and infrastructure development. Her current work examines highway construction in Colombia’s Eastern Piedmont landscapes to think about community and environmental relationships to transportation infrastructure, and visual representation in Latin American landscapes more generally.
Zannah is Social Media Editor for Landscape Research Journal. She is an active member of Beyond Extraction, which is a collective of researchers, writers, artists, and activists who come together to critically investigate and creatively counter extraction in its various forms.
Zannah has previously worked as an Assistant Teaching Professor of Landscape Architecture at Penn State University and as a Design for Spatial Justice Fellow at the University of Oregon Department of Landscape Architecture.ÌýShe has a Master in Landscape Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and in professional practice worked with OPSYS Landscape Infrastructure Lab as Project Manager and Lead Exhibition Designer for the Canada Pavilion at the Venice 2016 Architecture Biennale.