Jill Desimini

Jill Desimini

Director and Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Connecticut
Associate, Harvard Graduate School of Design
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Jill Desimini is a landscape architect and program director and associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of Connecticut. Her research investigates design strategies for abandoned landscapes and devalued property, with an increased focus on climate, social systems, and the longview. She is author of Cyclical City: Five Stories of Urban Transformation (UVA Press, 2022), From Fallow: 100 Ideas for Abandoned Urban Landscapes, (ORO 2019) co-author of Cartographic Grounds: Projecting the Landscape Imaginary (PAP 2016), as well as book chapters on fallowness, urban wilds, and other related topics. Prior to joining the GSD, she worked at Stoss Landscape Urbanism, Atkin Olshin Schade Architects, Wallace, Roberts, and Todd, KieranTimberlake, and the City of New York.

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