Georgia Brashaw, current student

Georgia Brashaw is a current Master of Landscape Architecture student at UWA, through the conversion pathway (for students with an undergraduate in a field other than landscape architecture). She has undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in nursing, with nine years experience as a Registered Nurse.

Why did you choose to study landscape architecture?
Georgia Brashaw – I chose to study landscape architecture because I wanted to contribute through designing more livable spaces with the community that lives in it.

What has been a memorable class from your time at UWA?
GB – The More than Human Studio with Rosie Halsmith. This studio taught me that design can go beyond meeting the needs of people. It taught me to design to give back to a larger system that we are a small part of.

What’s the most influential thing you’ve learned at UWA so far?
GB – The conversion pathway has been challenging and rewarding. So far, the most valuable things this degree has given me are new friendships and a new set of skills to critically think about how we shape the places that we live in.

What’s one resources from your time at UWA that you return to, or that you feel have been most influential on you as a landscape architecture student?
GB – The short film, The Giants.Very moving film that inspires activism for and being an advocate of the world around us.

Since starting at UWA, how have your ideas about the practice of landscape architecture changed?
GB – I have learned that there is no one definition of landscape architecture. But that I should continue to practice with a values based approach.

This interview was undertaken in 2023. It has been edited for clarity and cohesion.

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Imags: ‘Jirda’ for More Than Human Studio, by Georgia Brashaw (images via Georgia Brashaw)