About

Jeannette Sordi is a designer, planner, and academic based in New York City. Working at the intersection of landscape architecture, architecture, and planning in Europe and across the Americas, she has developed new perspectives and approaches in the fields of landscape urbanism, extraction territories, shrinking urban economies and adaptive reuse, climate resilience and adaptation in vulnerable contexts. She is a Visiting Associate Professor at the New York Institute of Technology, where she coordinates the Master in Architecture and the Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design. In 2015, she founded her consulting practice and since then she has collaborated with several institutions including the Inter-American Development Bank in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay; the Municipality of Cartagena and Chilean Division of Regional Development (Subdere, Chile); the Museum of Contemporary Art of Santiago and the Chilean Architects Council; Díacritica and Caetano Herrera University (Peru); the Municipality of Lecce, Municipality of Genoa (Italy), among others. Until 2018, she was an Associate Professor of Landscape and Urbanism at Adolfo Ibañez University in Santiago de Chile and taught at Syracuse University New York City Program in 2021-2022. She holds a Ph.D. in urban planning and design from the University of Genoa (2014) and was a Ph.D. Visiting Student at the Harvard Graduate School of Design Chair of Landscape Architecture (2011- 2012). Her Ph.D. focused on the genealogy of landscape urbanism and was published as Beyond Urbanism (List, 2014; Sacabana, 2017, Spanish edition). She co-founded the Landscape as Urbanism in the Americas initiative in 2015 and was one of the curators of the Chilean XX Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism in Valparaiso in 2017. She recently published the books Landscape as Urbanism in Latin America (Ness.docs, 2020) and Ecological Design. Strategies for the Vulnerable City (IaDB, 2021, 2022).