Alyssa Schwann’s professional experience includes practice as an environmental designer in Canada, the UK, and the Netherlands, with projects in North America, Europe and North and South Africa. She spent several years working as an urban designer and landscape architect at West 8 in the Netherlands. Her projects focused on parks, gardens and public spaces, including high-profile, award-winning urban-design projects for Toronto’s Central Waterfront and Governors Island, NY. Prior to West 8, Alyssa worked for Chris Blandford Associates in London, UK on large-scale urban design and infrastructure projects, as well as historically protected and listed parks and gardens.

In 2011, she founded Atelier Anonymous, a collective of internationally established and award-winning designers, educators and researchers in the fields of landscape architecture, landscape conservation, urban design, coastal ecosystems, and environmental design. She was recently appointed as an assistant professor in the Faculty of Architecture’s Environmental Design Program at the University of Manitoba.

Photo Credit: Project: 62M, Winnipeg MB; Architecture: 5468796 Architecture; Landscape: Atelier Anonymous