TATIANA NOZAKI is a landscape designer and educator. She grew up in Sao Paulo, Brazil situated within the ancestral territories of the Tupi People. She now lives and works in the unceded and traditional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations also known as Vancouver, Canada. Her engagement with these landscapes is imbued with a profound reverence for place-based stewardship, acknowledging the enduring and continuous care of these lands by indigenous communities since time immemorial.

 

Operating at the nexus of socio-ecological and political entanglements, Tatiana aims to reveal, dismantle, and redress oppressive, inequitable, and unsustainable systems. Her work centers on advancing social justice and reconciliation in contested sites by stewarding reciprocity and empathy between humans, non-humans, and their local environment. Through a spectrum of proposals ranging from speculative to pragmatic, she prioritizes the cultivation of deeper bonds with land and water as indispensable measures for catalyzing environmental and social-cultural change. 

 

Following the attainment of her Masters of Landscape Architecture from the University of British Columbia, she has embarked on a trajectory marked by both professional engagement, having worked at the internationally acclaimed HAPA Collaborative, and pedagogical leadership, teaching studios and representation courses as Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia.