Bert De Jonghe

Lecturer in Landscape Architecture

Bert De Jonghe is a Lecturer in Landscape Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (GSD). He specializes in landscape architecture, urbanism, and design research in the Arctic regions.

De Jonghe is the founder of Trans­po­lar Stu­dio and a Doc­tor of Design can­di­date at Har­vard GSD. In the past, he has worked as a design­er at a range of land­scape archi­tec­ture offices world­wide, including in Belgium, South Africa, and Norway. He has served in sev­er­al teach­ing posi­tions, includ­ing as a Uni­ver­si­ty Lec­tur­er at the Arc­tic Uni­ver­si­ty of Nor­way in Tromsø. He holds degrees from Har­vard GSD (Mas­ter in Design Stud­ies), the Oslo School of Archi­tec­ture and Design (Mas­ter of Land­scape Archi­tec­ture), and the School of Arts in Ghent (Bach­e­lor of Land­scape and Gar­den Archi­tec­ture).

De Jonghe’s publications include Arctic Practices – Design For a Changing World (Actar Publishers, forthcoming); Brief Notes on Arctic Extremes (Kerb Journal 31, forthcoming); Airport Landscapes: The Case of Qaqortoq Airport, South Greenland (Routledge, 2023); Tracing the Limits to Climate Adaptation: From the Pacific Small Island Developing States to the Arctic Region (KoozArch, 2022); Inventing Greenland – Designing an Arctic Nation (Actar Publishers, 2022) and The Opening of the Transpolar Sea Route: Logistical, Geopolitical, Environmental, and Socioeconomic Impacts (Marine Policy Journal, 2020).

He has presented his work at the DocTalks x MoMA forum, the University of Cambridge’s Architecture Department, the Arctic University of Norway, the Scott Polar Research Institute, the AA Bookshop in London, the University of Toronto, and the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers.

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