Jon Shinkfield FAILA

Jon’s portfolio of urban projects is framed by his interest in the relationship between water, people and place, including considerations of productivity, land use and modal transport.

Jon Shinkfield
Discipline:
Landscape architecture

Jon is a Founding Director of REALMstudios. Through his studies and history of practice his work is framed by his deep interest in the relationship between landscape systems, people and place. Jon’s work has been year-on-year awarded for both its strategic and built outcomes, from Decolonising the Siting and Design Guidelines for Structures on the Victorian Coast. He is passionate in his contribution to practice and academia: previously Senior Research Fellow at Monash University (CRC for Water Sensitive Cities); Vice President AILA NSW; AILA President in Victoria.

Professional Recognition includes 2025 AILA Victoria Awards: Moondani Balluk; Warrnambool Foreshore Framework Plan; NGV Birrarung 2070 Exhibition.

Jon was recently (2025) invited by Cornell University to deliver the Adleman Memorial Lecture titled ‘Decolonising the Garden’.

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