Landscape is a living network of relationships, and Margie Ruddick’s practice is built around it.
Margie Ruddick is an internationally recognised landscape architect working at the intersection of ecology, urban systems and cultural landscapes.
Her projects include the transformation of Queens Plaza in New York, where urban infrastructure was reimagined as public landscape, and the Living Water Park in Chengdu, China – the first ecological park in the country to clean polluted river water through biological processes. She has also worked on large-scale projects in the US, India and Mexico.
Margie is the author of Wild by Design and has taught at Harvard, Yale, Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania. Across all her work, the central question is how landscapes can reconnect ecological processes, communities and the built environment.
You can explore her work here: https://www.margieruddick.com.
At the GLDA Seminar 2026, her talk “Restoring Connections” explores restoration as rebuilding relationships between landscapes, people and natural systems.
This perspective is relevant whether you work with gardens, public space, policy, education or urban planning – anywhere decisions shape how people and nature coexist.
Margie Ruddick will be speaking at the GLDA Seminar on Saturday 28 February 2026, in Dublin.
Tickets and full seminar details: https://glda.ie
