MARSHALL Victoria Jane (Dr)
Senior Lecturer|Programme Director, MLA (Educator Track)
Department of Architecture, College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Architecture Drive, Singapore 117566.
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Dr Victoria Jane Marshall is a Senior Lecturer and Director of the MLA programme at the Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore (NUS). Marshall has a PhD in geography from NUS, Singapore (2021), a Master of Landscape Architecture and a Certificate in Urban Design from the University of Pennsylvania, USA (1997), and a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from the University of New South Wales, Australia (1992). Prior to teaching at NUS, Marshall taught in the Urban Studies Programme at Yale-NUS College, Singapore and at many highly regarded design schools in the northeast United States and Canada including The New School, Columbia University, Cornell University, Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, Pratt Institute, and University of Toronto. She has been part of the ETH Singapore, Future Cities Laboratory, Urban-Rural Systems and Agropolitan Territories of Monsoon Asia labs since 2016. In 2010 she received a prestigious two-year fellowship from the India-China Institute, New York.
In 2008 Marshall gained a license to practice landscape architecture in the United States. She joined the American Association of Geographers in 2016, the American Society of Landscape Architects in 2008, and the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects in 1994. Marshall is the founder of Till Design (tilldesign.com), which has been her site for creative design research since 2001.
The Fifth Nature studio is a space of multiplicity – a shared container full of many possibilities. Fifth nature(s), plural. Fifth Nature: Co-designing Singapore’s Future Urban Form from Nature-Society Ecologies and Reserve Lands/Seas (2024) documents the first year of a three year, design research pedagogy project co-taught by Victoria Jane Marshall (coordinator), Maxime Decaudin, Janice Tung, Lehana Guo, and Gu Tiantong, along with over 50 DOA landscape architecture students.
Many cities owe their growth to periurban areas, yet these regions are often overlooked when considering urban development. Tang Wei’s thesis, supervised by Dr Victoria Marshall, explores the complexities of periurban communities—particularly how ecotourism, although seen as a catalyst for economic growth in Southeast Asia, can paradoxically lead to environmental degradation and inequality. Focusing on Bonjeruk, a village in Lombok, Indonesia, the project critiques the urbanising effects of ecotourism. Through the innovative use of local knowledge and operational drawing techniques, Tang Wei demonstrates how communities can challenge dominant narratives of urbanisation, proposing alternative, ecologically sensitive strategies for growth.
The Density Studio was taught in the Master of Landscape Architecture programme at the National University of Singapore in semester one (August-November) of 2023 by Victoria Jane Marshall. As seen in the ten individual projects in this report, the Density Studio students demonstrate tangible and creative ideas for hybrid, urban-rural futures.
A new tool for analyzing urban land cover that integrates design practices and ecological knowledge for understanding cities as complex, patchy, and dynamic systems This atlas is a unique conceptual tool to describe and analyze cities as complex systems, using a new, hybrid approach to urban land cover classification. As an impetus to bring ecologists and urban designers together, it builds on over a decade of shared knowledge from the Baltimore Ecosystem Study to inspire ecologically motivated design practice.