Shaun Rosier is a landscape architectural and urban designer, researcher, and educator at Virginia Tech.

His primary creative practice, research, and teaching interests revolve around interrogating design and design-research methods through explorations of technique, method, and representation. Central to this is affirming the capacity of design-research, specifically design as a means of knowledge generation and critique. This work revolves around a close and sustained engagement with the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, particularly their notions of affect and assemblage, alongside Alfred North Whitehead, and contemporary New Materialist thinking.

At present, this work has been paired with an interrogation of urban aggregate reclamation strategies. Specifically, the question of how landscape architectural and urban design can be inserted significantly earlier into the extraction process is being formulated through creative practice works, traditional scholarship, and industry partnerships.

Shaun’s work seeks to challenge assumptions of landscape, capitalism, settler-colonial systems, research, and ways of looking at the world through a speculative-realist lens by asking “what could be” rather than “what should be”.

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