SCAPETHICAL - Key Persons

Alban Mannisi is a Landscape Urbanist, founder and director of SCAPETHICAL, Built Environment Practice and Research Platform. Alban Mannisi research focus is on the emerging political ecology implementation in landscape planning and the social ecology deployment through various indigenous environmental mediation. His recent projects and inquiries decipher the globalisation of sustainable narrative and the foundation of localised citizen resistance to translate intangible landscape components in environmental design. Deeply concerned with environmental, social and spatial injustice issues, he develops appropriate environmental observation protocol that translates associated human & non-human conflicts into resilient spaces. With the increasing illegibility of the environmental construction of our societies, he elaborates a Political Philosophy of Landscape to decipher our fragile landscape mutation to produce ethical design and equitable planning. Intrigued by how connected histories and hybrid cultures model our scape, he has lived, practiced or taught in France, Korea, Singapore, England, Thailand, Japan and Australia, involving him in a variety of projects among various countries in collaboration with the professionals in various fields, such as landscape architects & planners, architects, urban & territorial planners, environmentalists, governmental officers, researchers and academics. Academic, Doctor in Spatial Planning and Urbanism, he is currently Associate at the School of Design and the Built Environment of CURTIN University, Perth and the Architecture and Urban Design Dpt. of RMIT, Melbourne_Australia as well as Associate Researcher at the Architecture / Milieu / Paysage Laboratory of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-La Villette, France.