Usue Ruiz-Arana

Usue is a chartered landscape architect, researcher and educator at Newcastle University. Usue's research is concerned with advancing Landscape Architecture as a discipline uniquely positioned to address planetary health, biodiversity and climate crises, and social and eco-justice. To that end, she researches in the cross-cutting fields of acoustic ecology, multispecies collaborations and research by design, and her publications (incl. monograph Urban Soundscapes, Routledge, 2024) and creative outputs demonstrate and emerging international leadership in these fields. Her keen interest in design and art as forms of research informs her role as 'Thinking Eye' editor of the peer review Journal of Landscape Architecture (jola-lab.eu).