IFLA GEC WG - Global Education Coordination Working Group members

Rosalea Monacella

Chair of the IFLA Global Education Coordination Working Group

Rosalea Monacella, Ph.D., holds a faculty position in the Landscape Architecture Department at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. She is a registered landscape architect and has undertaken research on a number of cities around the world, generated urban masterplans for cities in China, the USA, South America, Europe, and Australia that explore design at the nexus of the urban and natural environments, and has been the recipient of a number of national and international awards and grants related to her practice-based research as co-founder of the OUTR Research Lab at RMIT University Melbourne, Australia. Rosalea's expertise is in transitioning the urban environment through careful indexing and shifting of dynamic resource flows that inform the landscape of contemporary cities. Her research combines complex urban issues and advanced digital modeling techniques for generating sustainable urban futures. For ten years, she has acted as chief editor of Kerb Journal, leading the journal to become a significant publication in the disciplinary panorama.