Julia Hedges

EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts, Yale University, 2020
Master of Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2024

Julia Hedges is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, where she teaches design studios and courses in representation. She studies contested narratives of land and collective strategies for the organization and management of natural resources and cultural landscapes. Her teaching and research explores alternative and participatory representation methods.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Hedges’ work considers the landscape’s relationship to identity formation and historical memory. Her collaborative and ongoing creative work reimagines the Jewish summer camp as a diasporic practice, exploring spatial narratives, speculative ritual and ecological change.
While at Auburn, Hedges will build on her previous fieldwork on Southeastern karst geology, now focused on the dense landscapes of caves in Northeastern Alabama. Her explorations seek to understand and represent the emergent realities of cavescapes, employing the experiences and organizations of cavers, relationships between surface and subterranean forms and spatial dimensions of the underground.