Ryerson University

Faculty Member, School of Urban & Regional Planning

Associate Professor, MCIP, RPP, Affiliate ASLA

About

Nina-Marie Lister is Associate Professor of Urban + Regional Planning at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada, and Visiting Associate Professor at Harvard University, Graduate School of Design. She is currently Senior Scholar with the Centre for Humans and Nature: www.humansandnature.org/

A Registered Professional Planner (MCIP, RPP) with a background in resource management, ecology and environmental planning, Lister is the founding principal of plandform, a creative studio practice exploring the relationship between landscape, ecology, and urbanism. Her research, teaching and practice focus on the confluence of landscape infrastructure and ecological processes within contemporary metropolitan regions. Through this, she has developed three streams of applied research and design: adaptive ecological design for ecosystem complexity and biodiversity conservation; parklands and waterfronts in post-industrial landscapes; and urban food systems and productive/edible landscapes.

Lister is co-editor of The Ecosystem Approach: Complexity, Uncertainty, and Managing for Sustainability (Columbia University Press, 2008) and author of more than 30 professional practice and scholarly publications including recent contributions to Ecological Urbanism (Harvard University with Lars Müller Publishers 2010) and Large Parks (Princeton Architectural Press 2008, winner of the J.B. Jackson Book Prize). 

In her professional practice, Lister is a frequent collaborator with international design firms in juried competitions and exhibitions involving both built and speculative works in metropolitan landscapes. Her work has been featured in exhibitions shown at the Canadian Center for Architecture in Montréal, the Chicago Architecture Foundation, the Toronto Design Exchange and the Van Alen Institute in New York. She recently served as the Professional Advisor to the ARC International Design Competition which developed innovative designs for a wildlife crossing structure in Colorado. www.arc-solutions.org

Nina-Marie has lectured widely in ecological design and landscape planning, including at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Toronto, the University of Texas (Austin), Leibniz Universität Hannover (Germany), University of Göteburg (Sweden), Griffith University (Brisbane, AUS) and RMIT (Melbourne, AUS). At Ryerson University, Professor Lister teaches landscape and planning studios, research methods, ecological design, and landscape urbanism. She is a founding faculty member of the School’s graduate programme in Planning (Urban Development). In 2004, Prof. Lister received a Canada Mortgage + Housing Corporation Excellence in Education Award for outstanding educational contribution to sustainable
practices.

See also Prof. Lister's webpage at Ryerson University at:
http://www.ryerson.ca/surp/faculty_staff/bios/lister_nina_marie.html

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