Thierry Kandjee & Sebastien Penfornis

Thierry KANDJEE is a landscape architect, in charge of
taktyk Brussels and Chair of Landscape in the Architecture
Faculty La Cambre Horta. His practice based research investigated
how to design landscape skeletons as a model of/for robust
landscapes.


Sébastien PENFORNIS is an architect and urban designer in
charge of taktyk Paris office. He also teaches at the ENSAB,
Rennes. His practice based research explored the notion of play
and serendipity through the landscape design processes and
transformations.


Rennie Tang is a designer and educator based in Los Angeles.
As a professor of landscape architecture at California
Polytechnic State University Pomona her teaching methods
emphasize one-to-one scale spatial construction, topographic
manipulation and material exploration. She is recipient of the
2017 Excellence in Design Studio Teaching Award from the Council
of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA). Her research
interests include human mobility, health and well-being in urban
landscapes and intergenerational play; this work has been
presented and published locally and internationally at
conferences as well as by invitation from museums and art
festivals. Her collaborative project ‘Punt.Point’ with artist
Sara Wookey was recently purchased by the Van Abbe Museum in
Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Notable designers she has worked with
include landscape architect Walter Hood and artist Mary Miss. She
has taught at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, Woodbury University and
University of Southern California and has practiced in Montreal,
Toronto, New York, Los Angeles, Berkeley, Oakland and Vienna.