The open call is now active and invites students and young professionals to submit proposals for “lost sites” of their choice. The competition requires that: the selected site must not exceed 1 hectare (2.47 acres); proposals must assume public accessibility, even in cases of privately owned land; and eligible participants must be born after 11 December 1990.
Elizabeth K. Meyer, FASLA, is an Endowed Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia School of Architecture. Prior to her UVA tenure, Meyer worked for design firms in DC and Philadelphia, and taught at Cornell and Harvard GSD. Meyer’s awards and honors include President Obama’s appointment to the US Commission of Fine Arts, the Vincent Scully Prize and the UVA Thomas Jefferson Award.
In addition to teaching design studios and theory seminars, Meyer lead the A-School as Department Chair and Dean. Since 2023 when she was appointed the Inaugural Faculty Director of the pan-university sustainability lab at Morven, Meyer has built a coalition of colleagues keen on perceiving, imagining, discovering and testing alternative regenerative futures where multi-species communities and the planet can flourish. A strategic action plan, authored by Meyer and a cohort of faculty in the arts, humanities, sciences and design, guides the regeneration of Morven’s 2900 acres of rural lands into a living landscape laboratory for field-based learning, experimentation and research across scales. This endeavor draws on Meyer’s lifelong interest in cultural landscapes as sites of memory—often partial, multiple and contested—palpable in spatial patterns, material traces and ongoing bio-cultural processes that can prompt future design imaginaries.
Maria Hellström Reimer, Professor in Design in Theory and Practice at Malmö University, School of Arts and Communication. Trained as an artist with significant professional experience, Hellström Reimer holds a PhD and Readership in landscape architecture with a specialization in theoretical and applied aesthetics. Her research is interdisciplinary, concerning aesthetic agency, including questions of knowledge, value, and social change. Recent writing includes “Subjecthood Adrift”(in Vanucchi et.al. (eds.) Design Research for Uncertain Futures, 2026), and “Stories from third space — A case and considerations of design research education from a Swedish vantage point” (in Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 2024). She served as Director of D! (2014-2015) the national PhD school in design; as Scientific Adviser in artistic research at the Swedish Research Council (2021-2024), and as articles editor for JoLA/Journal of Landscape Architecture. She has been a visiting scholar in several design research environments in Europe and beyond, and since 2014, she is an affiliate of Université de Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis.
Eric-Jan Pleijster
Partner and co-founder of LOLA, senior landscape architect lola.land
Eric-Jan Pleijster is a senior Landscape Architect and the co-founder of LOLA Landscape Architects. LOLA (LOst LAndscapes) is an internationally operating office for landscape architecture that studies and designs spatial transitions of degraded cultural landscapes. LOLA wants to transform these landscapes into beautiful, healthy and sustainable places. Whether in the city, suburbs or the countryside, LOLA aims to design sublime landscapes that make people enjoy, wander and wonder. Eric-Jan graduated cum laude in landscape architecture at Wageningen University (2003). Eric-Jan believes in the use of natural processes to optimize landscapes and to create unexpected and memorable experiences.
Examples of his projects are the design of ecological corridor Park Poelzone, the car-free Merwede housing area in Utrecht and the redevelopment of the former prison Bijlmerbajes into Bajes Kwartier – a sustainable housing area in Amsterdam. Together with LOLA, Eric-Jan has written the bestseller Dutch Dikes and the award-winning monograph Lost Landscapes. In 2013 he received the Rotterdam Maaskant Award for Young Architects. In 2014 LOLA received the TOPOS Landscape Award. In 2024 LOLA was awarded the German Schelling Architecture Prize. Eric-Jan is also active as jury member, guest speaker and visiting professor at congresses, workshops and design studios.
The invited jury members will be joined by two jurors from the competition organisers:
Thomas Lub is Director of Streetlife America, where he leads business development and strategic partnerships across North America. With a background in urban design and architecture, he works at the intersection of public space, landscape architecture, and urban planning. His work focuses on advancing sustainable street furniture and public-realm solutions for cities and designers across the United States and Canada.
Zaš Brezar
Founder and editor-in-chief, Landezine landezine.com
Zaš Brezar is the founder and editor-in-chief of Landezine. Educated as a landscape architect (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), he spent several years in practice, later establishing Landezine in 2009. He is focused on the production of space, specifically mapping, tracing and interpreting the course of landscape architecture and questioning its role in society and politics of public space. For his work with Landezine, he received the Plečnik Medal in Slovenia in 2025.
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