Liana Jansen

Cape Town

Liana Jansen PrLArch #20156 (SACLAP 2003), PHP (APHP 2015), MA Anthropology (Unisa 2009), BL (2000) is a registered professional Landscape Architect and an accredited Professional Heritage Practitioner with 15 years experience in the design, planning, and conservation of landscapes. She acted as a lecturer and programme convenor in both the University of Pretoria and University of Cape Town Landscape Architecture and Architecture programmes. A master’s degree in anthropology enabled her to gain skills in understanding various cultures and their relationship with landscapes. She is actively involved in the heritage field, completing heritage audits, management plans, and designs for cultural landscapes across Southern Africa and internationally. Her research revolves around landscapes, specifically focussing on people’s present and past connection with the environment, and the role of landscape as anchoring point for memory, identity, and meaning. She acts as an external examiner for final year Landscape Architecture students. Liana is the ICOMOS Vice President Africa of the International Scientific Committee for Cultural Landscapes and an expert member of the ICOMOS International Committee on Intangible Cultural Heritage. She is also the Southern African coordinator of the ICOMOS-IFLA World Rural Landscapes initiative. She is an active evaluator of nominated UNESCO World Heritage Sites. She is co-editor of the book “Engraved Landscape : Biesje Poort : Many Voices” and co-editor of the South African Landscape Architecture Compendium and Reader. She also published a chapter in the book, “Rural Resistance in South Africa: The Mpondo Revolts after Fifty Years,” edited by Thembela Kepe and Lungisile Ntsebeza. Furthermore, she developed a Mapping Cultural Landscape Syllabus and Toolkit for the Association of African Planning Schools.