Key details
Professor Ed Wall
Centre for Spatial and Digital Ecologies Lead and Landscape Design Coordinator
Ed Wall is a landscape architect and urbanist who explores architectural practices and landscape processes through concerns for spatial justice.
His published work includes Architecture for Warfare (Jovis 2025), Contesting Public Spaces (Routledge 2022), and ‘The Landscapists’, an edited special issue of Architectural Design (Wiley 2020). He also co-edited Landscape and Agency (Routledge 2017), Landscape Citizenships (Routledge 2019), and Unsettled Urban Space (Routledge 2023), and Collective Landscape Futures (Routledge 2025).
He is a Professor of Cities and Landscapes at the University of Greenwich where he leads the Spatial and Digital Ecologies research centre. He is also a Visiting Professor at Politecnico di Milano and was recently Visiting Professor in Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and City of Vienna Visiting Professor for urban culture, public space and the future–urban equity and the global agenda at TU Wien. He holds a PhD from the Cities Programme of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Ed directed Landscape Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Greenwich for 10-years, developing a critical, collective, and interdisciplinary design focus. During this time, he co-developed unique pedagogies contributing to Greenwich winning the International Landscape Architecture Schools Prize (2025). The New Coasts Studio that he co-leads has worked with organisations such as the Environment Agency, Peabody, and Royal Borough of Greenwich to explore the challenges of tidal and coastal landscapes through design and policy.
In addition to teaching and writing, interdisciplinary projects range from regional plans to curated exhibitions, working with organisations including the Landscape Institute, Architecture Foundation, Royal Academy, and Landscape Urbanism Biennale. Projects such as Lubricity, Park Works, Roaming Forest, and the Valley Project have been published in The Guardian, Architects’ Journal, Architectural Design (AD), Building Design, Abitare, and Arch Daily. They have also been exhibited at the Van Alen Institute, Royal Academy, Building Centre, Garden Museum, Des Moines Art Center, Landscape Urbanism Bienniale, Melbourne Design Week, and the Stephen Lawrence Gallery.
Ed is on the Board of Experts for the European Prize for Public Space and was a Design Council Specialist Expert (2021-2024). He leads the Spatial and Digital Ecologies research group where his work has been supported by the Graham Foundation and Landscape Research Group.
Responsibilities within the university
- Centre for Spatial and Digital Ecologies Lead
- Design Coordinator for Landscape Architecture and Urbanism
Recognition
- Member of Landscape Institute
- International Advisory Board of Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space (SKuOR)
- Board of Experts for the European Prize for Public Space
Research / Scholarly interests
Ed's research explores architectural practices, urban ecologies, and landscape processes through concerns for spatial justice. This includes site-specific research methods and design speculations which are central to studio culture within the university and landscape architecture practice.
- Coastal cities and tidal landscapes
- Collective landscapes and public space
- Design studio pedagogies
- Urban equity, ecologies and development
Recent publications
Article
Wall, Edward Duncan and , (2021), Constellation versus hero: a conversation with Mary Miss. British Academy. In: , , , . British Academy, Journal of the British Academy, 9 (s5) . pp. 7-28 2052–7217 (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/009s5.007).
Wall, Ed and , (2021), Incompleteness: landscapes, cartographies, citizenships. Routledge. In: , , , . Routledge, Landscape Research, 47 (2) . pp. 179-194 ISSN: 0142-6397 (Print), 1469-9710 (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2021.1914011).
Book
Wall, Ed and , (2025), Architecture for Warfare: How Corporations Profit From Destruction and Reconstruction. Jovis. In: , , , . Jovis, Berlin (1st) . ISBN: 9783986122812 (doi: https://www.jovis.de/en/book/9783986122805).
Wall, Edward Duncan and , (2022), Contesting public spaces: social lives of urban redevelopment in London. Routledge - Taylor and Francis. In: , , , . Routledge - Taylor and Francis, London (1st) . ISBN: 9781032163567 ; 1032163569 (doi: https://www.routledge.com/Contesting-Public-Spaces-Social-Lives-of-Urban-Redevelopment-in-London/Wall/p/book/9781032163567).
Book section
Wall, Ed and , (2025), Is landscape public?. Routledge - Taylor and Francis. In: , , In: Gareth Doherty, Charles Waldheim (eds.), Landscape Is...! Essays on the Meaning of Landscape. Routledge - Taylor and Francis, London, UK (1st) . pp. 216-234 . ISBN: 9781003148142 (doi: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003148142-12) NB Item availability restricted.
Wall, Edward Duncan and , Liu, Alexis (2023), Chapter 10. Experimental studio ecologies: a productive throwntogetherness. Routledge - Taylor and Francis. In: , , In: Rosalea Monacella, Bridget Keane (eds.), Designing Landscape Architectural Education: Studio Ecologies for Unpredictable Futures. Routledge - Taylor and Francis, Abingdon, Oxon; London and New York (1st) . ISBN: 9781003145905; 9780367703660; 9780367703653; 0367703661 (doi: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003145905).
Wall, Ed and , (2022), Chapter 12. From cleaning to cleansing: maintenance as an urban development practice at Paddington Waterside, London. Routledge - Taylor and Francis Group. In: , , In: Tihomir Viderman, Sabine Knierbein, Elina Kränzle, Sybille Frank, Nikolai Roskamm, Ed Wall (eds.), Unsettled: Urban Routines, Temporalities, and Contestations. Routledge - Taylor and Francis Group, New York (1st) . pp. 140-152 . ISBN: 9780429290237 (doi: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429290237-14).
Wall, Edward Duncan and , (2022), Youthhood. Advanced Landscape and Urbanism. In: , , In: Daze Aghaji, Carmel Keran, Alexis Liu, Dan Cui, Kristofer Cullum-Fernandez, Fida Sassi, Edward Duncan Wall (eds.), Testing Ground 03: Youthhood. Advanced Landscape and Urbanism, University of Greenwich, London Testing-Ground 03: Youthood, 3 (1st) . ISBN: 9798788404943 (doi: ).
Wall, Edward Duncan and , (2021), Foreword: a tribute to Michael Sorkin. Birkhauser. In: , , In: Cannon Ivers (ed.), 250 Things a Landscape Architect Should Know. Birkhauser, Berlin; Munich; Boston (1st) . pp. 4-5 . ISBN: 9783035623369 ; 9783035623352 (doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035623369-001) NB Item availability restricted.
Wall, Ed and , (2021), Working with uncertainties: living with masterplanning at Elephant and Castle. Routledge- Taylor & Francis. In: , , In: Timothy Laurence Waterman, Jane Wolff, Ed Wall (eds.), Landscape Citizenships. Routledge- Taylor & Francis, London (1st) . pp. 1-20 . ISBN: 9780367478827; 9781003037163 (doi: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003037163).
Wall, Edward Duncan and , (2021), Cities after landscape: post – landscapes, other practices, and all things. Springer. In: , , In: Antonella Contin (ed.), Metropolitan Landscapes: Towards a Shared Construction of the Resilient City of the Future. Springer, Cham, Switzerland , 28 (1st) . pp. 53-66 . ISBN: 9783030744243 ; 9783030744236 (doi: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-74424-3).
Conference item
Milliken, Sarah , Lammin, Hannah, McArthur, Angela, Papadaki, Elena , Rabourdin, Caroline , Isa, Susanne , Wall, Edward Duncan (2023), Equality, diversity and inclusion in the curriculum. In: SHIFT 2023: University of Greenwich Annual Learning & Teaching Conference, 11th - 12th Jan, 2023, London, University of Greenwich , . , (doi: ).
Conference proceedings
Athique Winterbottom, Anushka , Goodwin, Duncan, Liu, Alexis, Wall, Edward Duncan (2023), Collective Landscape Futures symposium. University of Greenwich. In: Collective Landscape Futures Symposium, 18 - 19 May 2023, Stockwell Street, University of Greenwich , Collective Landscape Futures symposium. 18th -19th May 2023. University of Greenwich, London. University of Greenwich, London (1st) (doi: https://thelandscape.org/2023/05/11/collective-landscape-futures-symposium/).
Edited book
Athique Winterbottom, Anushka , Goodwin, Duncan, Wall, Edward Duncan (2025), Collective Landscape Futures. Routledge. In: , , , . Routledge, (1st) (doi: ).
Viderman, Tihomir , Knierbein, Sabine, Kränzle, Elina, Frank, Sybille , Roskamm, Nikolai , Wall, Edward Duncan (2022), Unsettled Urban Space: Routines, Temporalities and Contestations. Routledge. In: , , , . Routledge, New York . ISBN: 9780367258603 (doi: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9780429290237/unsettled-urban-space-sabine-knierbein-tihomir-viderman-elina-kr%C3%A4nzle-sybille-frank-ed-wall-nikolai-roskamm).
Wall, Ed , Waterman, Tim, Wolff, Jane (2021), Landscape Citizenships. Routledge. In: , , , . Routledge, . ISBN: 9780367478827 (doi: https://www.routledge.com/Landscape-Citizenships/Waterman-Wolff-Wall/p/book/9780367478827).
Exhibition
Wall, Edward Duncan and , Withers, Simon (2024), Part Forest. In: Forest Futures, 25th Jan - Mar 31st, 2024, Harvard, Druker Design Gallery, 48 Quincy Street, Gund Hall, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA , . , (doi: https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/exhibition/forest-futures/)
Performance
Hugin, Amund , Geros, Christina, Wall, Edward Duncan, Botchway, Larry , Jawareesh, Wattan , Athique Winterbottom, Anushka , Angell, Roo , Landscape Architecture & Urbanism, University of Greenwich (2022), Intersectional Landscapes. Landscape Architecture & Urbanism, University of Greenwich. In: Intersectional Landscapes: Collective Landscape Futures, 9th Mar, 2022, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich , . Landscape Architecture & Urbanism, University of Greenwich, (doi: http://www.greenwichunigalleries.co.uk/collective-landscape-futures-intersectional-landscapes/).