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Jacky Bowring
Bowring in 2021
Alma materLincoln University
Scientific career
Fieldslandscape architecture
InstitutionsLincoln University
Thesis
Websitehttp://www.lincoln.ac.nz/About-Lincoln/Staff-Profiles/?StaffID=Bowring%20Jacky

Jacky Bowring (sometimes Jacqueline) CRSNZ is a New Zealand landscape architecture academic specialising in memories and memorials. She is currently a full professor at Lincoln University.[1] In 2024 Bowring was elected a Companion of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.

Academic career

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After a BSc (Hons) at the University of Canterbury, Bowring completed a diploma[2] and then a PhD[3] in landscape architecture at Lincoln University. Joining the staff, Bowring rose to full professor in 2013.[1][4]

Bowring's 2015 book A Field Guide to Melancholy was reviewed in The Guardian.[5]

In 2017, Bowring was one of five winners in an LA+Journal competition to design an island, for which she took inspiration from Howland Island.[6][7][8]

Bowring has been a part of the public discussion about the rebuilding of Christchurch after the 2011 Christchurch earthquake.[9][10][11]

She was awarded the inaugural Michèle Whitecliffe Art Writing Prize by the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki for her essay "Art Therapy".[12]

In 2024 Bowring was elected a Companion of the Royal Society Te Apārangi, for her "innovative career and scholarship in landscape architecture".[4]

Selected works

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  • Egoz, Shelley, Jacky Bowring, and Harvey C. Perkins. "Tastes in tension: form, function, and meaning in New Zealand’s farmed landscapes." Landscape and Urban Planning 57, no. 3-4 (2001): 177–196.
  • Bowring, Jacky. A Field Guide to Melancholy. Oldcastle Books, 2015.
  • Egoz, Shelley, Jacky Bowring, and Harvey C. Perkins. "Making a 'mess' in the countryside: Organic farming and the threats to sense of place." Landscape Journal 25, no. 1 (2006): 54–66.
  • Vallance, Suzanne, Harvey C. Perkins, Jacky Bowring, and Jennifer E. Dixon. "Almost invisible: Glimpsing the city and its residents in the urban sustainability discourse." Urban Studies 49, no. 8 (2012): 1695–1710.
  • Egoz, Shelley, and Jacky Bowring. "Beyond the romantic and naive: the search for a complex ecological aesthetic design language for landscape architecture in New Zealand." Landscape research 29, no. 1 (2004): 57–73.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Staff Profiles | Lincoln University". Lincoln.ac.nz. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
  2. ^ Bowring, Jacky (1989). Painting New Zealand (Diploma thesis). Research@Lincoln, University of Canterbury. hdl:10182/5549.
  3. ^ Bowring, J. (1997). Institutionalising the picturesque: the discourse of the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects (Thesis). PhD thesis. Lincoln University, New Zealand. hdl:10182/667.
  4. ^ a b "New Companion: Professor Jacky Bowring". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
  5. ^ Ian Pindar. "Review: A Field Guide to Melancholy by Jacky Bowring | Books". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
  6. ^ Testado, Justine (30 January 2018). "How would you design a new island? Check out the winning proposals from the LA+ IMAGINATION ideas competition". Archinect. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
  7. ^ "Dr Jacky Bowring, one of five winners of international design competition | NZ Institute of Landscape Architects". Nzila.co.nz. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
  8. ^ Bowring, Jacqueline (2018). "The island of lost objects". Landscape Architecture Plus (07): 22–27. ISSN 2376-4171.
  9. ^ "Christchurch Earthquake Memorial draws on rich tradition of memorials around the world". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
  10. ^ "Earthquake memorial 'says nothing about Christchurch'". Stuff.co.nz. 15 May 2015. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
  11. ^ "Chch risks becoming a 'soulless city'". Stuff.co.nz. 11 April 2013. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
  12. ^ "Top honours for multi-talented academic". Lincoln University. 21 December 2021. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
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