John Stuart-Murray
BSc(Hons) BLD PG Cert HE FLI FHEA
Associate Director of ESALA
ESALA, Edinburgh College of Art,
eca Hunter Building room r1f
75 Lauriston Place,
Edinburgh,
EH3 9DF
Edinburgh, Scotland
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0) 0131 221 6094
email: j.murray@eca.ac.uk

Profile

I coordinate the BA(Hons) / MSc in Landscape Architecture and teach design studio, theory and professional practice on accredited undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. I jointly designed and established the MFA in Art Space and Nature with the School of Drawing and Painting six years ago. This programme has an international, interdisciplinary and site based ethos and attracts a rich diversity of students and visiting artists.

Current research interests and emergent outputs include translations between architectural and ecological language, student centred studio practice and perceptions of place in the Scottish Gaelic landscape. Previous published work examined forestry design and planning, landform and place in the Scottish Highlands, best practice in sustainable landscape architecture and the influence of modern art upon Geoffrey Jellicoe

Selected Bibliography

Two Drunk Men look at the Thistle (with P Aspinall)Landscape Design 220 1993

*Forestry Indicative Strategies Scottish Forestry Vol 48 No 1, 1994

*Ecological Planting Design (with P Aspinall & N Rudd)
Scottish Natural Heritage Review Paper, 1

Unnameable Landscape Landscape Review 2, Lincoln, NZ 1995

Jellicoe and Modern Art (with Kristine Miller) in Geoffrey Jellicoe, ed.Harvey, S
Landscape Design Trust Monograph No 1, 1998

The Effectiveness of Forestry Indicative Strategies - A case Study in the Scottish
Borders (with S J Winterbottom & J A Young) Scottish Forestry Vol 53 No3 1999

Eye Movements & Visual Forces in the Landscape (with P Aspinall, A Hill, E
Anderson & J M Davies) Scottish Forestry Vol 54 No4 2000

The Experience of Forests (with P Aspinall) in Forestry Social Services in the Role of ResearchFinnish Forest Research Institute Research papers 815, 2001

Bingscape: Art, Artefact or Landscape Architecture - in Art and Landscape Panayotis and Effie Michelis Foundation, Athens 2001
The River Teviot (& J McGregor) – in Tweed Rivers Platform Projects 2005

Landscape, Geomorphology & Hydrology in Edinburgh – Making of a Capital City Edinburgh University Press 2005

Differentiating the Gaelic landscape Scottish Studies 34. 2007

The Practice of Sustainable Landscape Design – in Landscape & SustainabilityTaylor & Francis 2007

Making Urban Ecology a Key Element in Urban Development and Planning in Handbook of Urban Ecology (in press) ;Routledge 2010

                                   

Biography

I am a graduate of the University of Sussex in Biology and from the University of Manchester in Landscape Architecture. Prior to joining Edinburgh College of Art as an academic in 1992, I worked in private practice in London on park design projects in the Middle East and for regional and local government in Manchester and the Scottish Borders on land reclamation and urban renewal projects. I am a Fellow and elected Council member of the Landscape Institute and a supervisor and examiner on its Pathway to Chartership professional practice period. I have a Postgraduate Certificate (teaching and learning) in Higher Education and I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Links

http://www.eca.ac.uk/staff_profiles/view/prof-paul-jenkins
http://www.sbe.hw.ac.uk/staffprofiles/J/PaulJenkins.htm