Professor Ed Wall BA, BLA, MUD, PhD

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.