Outstanding Educator Award: Karin Helms (The Oslo School of Architecture and Design AHO)
Professor Karin Helms is a leading voice in European landscape architecture education. Founder of EMiLA, she has shaped a collaborative European approach to teaching and research that connects ecology, landscape planning, nature-based solutions, and community engagement.
Outstanding Doctoral Student Award: Lotte Dijkstra (School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Newcastle University)
Lotte Dijkstra is an emerging voice in landscape architecture, whose pioneering research connects environmental justice, storytelling, and more-than-human perspectives. Through her concept of “intersectional environmental belonging,” she demonstrates how landscape architecture can foster inclusive relationships between people, place, and the environment.
Outstanding Master Student Award: Nicola Vollmer (TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Department of Urbanism)
Nicola Vollmer’s award-winning project Untold Waters demonstrates how landscape architecture can address complex urban and ecological challenges through design-led research. Focusing on Cape Town’s informal river landscapes, she combines spatial analysis, ecological resilience, and community knowledge to develop locally grounded approaches to flood mitigation.
Outstanding Master Student Award: Jillian Cummings (Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture)
Jillian Cummings’ Fruitful Futures reimagines food as socio-ecological infrastructure, exploring how landscape architecture can foster care, stewardship, and more-than-human relationships. By integrating food production, ecology, and public space, she develops innovative strategies that reconnect communities with local landscapes and seasonal processes.
– Outstanding Bachelor Student Award: Noura Al Naamani (American University of Beirut)
Noura Al Naamani combines outstanding design excellence with a powerful commitment to landscape, memory, and social justice. Her award-winning project Suruh, Palestine brings together forensic landscape analysis, cultural restoration, and ecological healing, while her international advocacy and public engagement make her a compelling voice for the future of landscape architecture.
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– Outstanding Bachelor Student Award: Laurien Maes (KASK & Conservatorium HOGENT – Howest)
Laurien Maes stands out for her intellectual maturity and regenerative approach to landscape architecture, addressing climate adaptation, water restoration, circularity, and long-term resilience through research-based design. Alongside her academic work, her leadership, international experience, and active engagement with the profession reflect a strong commitment to shaping sustainable landscapes and the future of the discipline.
