Johanna Just is a designer, researcher, and doctoral fellow at the Institute for Landscape and Urban Studies (LUS) at ETH Zürich supervised by Teresa Galí-Izard. In her work, she traces relationships between different species, humans and extractive ecologies in the Upper Rhine Plain and explores new spatial representation methods that allow for multispecies inclusive designs. Johanna is one of the organisers of Tentacular Writing, an ETH/EPFL summer school hosted by Somalgors74, together with Metaxia Markaki and Sila Karatas. Currently, she is guest editor of the 2024 special issue of the gta papers on Amazônía together with Ciro Miguel and Santiago del Hierro Kennedy and guest editor of the first issue of the LUS publication together with Sara Frikech. Together with Ness Lafoy, Flick Barbour and Agostino Nickl, Johanna is a founding member of the Bakerloos. She holds a MArch Architecture degree with distinction and Bartlett School of Architecture Medal from the Bartlett School of Architecture and studied Architecture at the University of Hanover and IUAV Venice. Johanna has worked in architecture and art practices in London and Germany and taught at the Bartlett and Oxford School of Architecture on architecture and landscape architecture programs.
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Recent Publications
DELUS The Journal of the Institute for Landscape and Urban Studies, Issue 0, (eds) S. Frikech and J. Just, Berlin: Hatje Cantz, October 2023
Interview on ‘Drawing is Representation’, in H. Biechteler et al. (eds) Drawing in Architecture Education and Research: Lucerne Talks. Zurich: Park Books, p. 164, 2023
Repopulating a River: Reflections on the Return of the Rhine Salmon, AR#1 Aquaculture, June 2023
'Nature in Change: Exploring the Ecological Conditions of a flooded Gravel Pit in the Upper Rhine Plain', ARQ 113, April 2023
'Cultivating more-than-human care: Exploring bird watching as a landscaping practice on the example of sand martins and flooded gravel pits’, Frontiers of Architectural Research, May 2022
‘Drawing as situated practice’, L’Atelier Magazine, (20), pp. 97–105, 2022.