Anne-Marie is a landscape architect and First People’s partnerships and design lead at Aspect Studios, committed to advocating and practising culturally responsive and meaningful design processes with First People’s communities to enable self-determination through a genuine collaborative engagement. She understands and deeply respects the value local communities knowledge brings to design and encourages us all to connect with this ‘Indigenous way of knowing’. She has successfully implemented this approach through many of her projects working with Traditional Custodians from across Victoria.
She is the immediate past co-chair of Australian Institute of Landscape Architects’ (AILA) National ‘Connection to Country’ Committee, a current panel member for both the VDRP and MDRP and leads Aspect Studios in focusing on genuine and respectful involvement with Traditional Custodians. Here she also heads the development and implementation of the practices’ National ‘C2C’ Strategy.
In October 2024 Anne-Marie curated the Respecting Country Symposium in Melbourne. In recognition of her leadership and contributions to advancing culturally responsive design, Anne-Marie received the AILA Victoria President’s Award in 2018 and an AILA Fellow in 2022. She is a member of the Office of the Victorian Government Architect’s Design Review Panel as well as the City of Melbourne’s Design Review Panel where she continues to advocate for Traditional Owner engagement and co-designed approaches to landscape architecture.
