EMiLA Fellowship 2023-2024 (F/H)

EMiLAEuropean Master in Landscape Architecture Fellowship

The EMiLAEuropean Master in Landscape Architecture Fellowship at École nationale supérieure de paysage (ENSPÉcole nationale supérieure de paysage) is awarded annually, since 2019, to an emerging landscape architect, enthusiastic to transmit and test their ideas and skills with Master-level landscape architecture students in design studios and workshops. The Fellowship is a one-year position at half-time. The teaching language is English.

Presentation of ENSPÉcole nationale supérieure de paysage and EMiLAEuropean Master in Landscape Architecture

École nationale supérieure de paysage has educated landscape architects since 1974 at the historical site of the Potager du Roi in Versailles on the demand of the French Ministry of Agriculture. Over these past decades, the school has created a significant corpus of landscape architects capable of answering to urban, suburban and rural questions and to the multiplying challenges of the environmental crisis on all scales of the landscape architectural project. ENSPÉcole nationale supérieure de paysage offers a wide range of educational programs on Bachelor, Master and Doctoral-levels. The core program leads to an internationally (IFLA) recognised Master’s Degree named DEPDiplôme d'État de Paysagiste (Diplôme d'Etat de Paysagiste - State Diploma in Landscape Architecture) and some 70 students successfully graduate from this program on a yearly basis. In the DEPDiplôme d'État de Paysagiste program, 50% of teaching is design-orientated; the other 50% deals with four major multi-disciplinary fields: social sciences, ecology, techniques and arts. The school has 40 permanent teachers and around 300 supply teachers coming from professional practice. ENSPÉcole nationale supérieure de paysage also has a research laboratory, LAREPLaboratoire de recherche en projet de paysage, with 40 multi-disciplinary researchers working on diverse landscape issues. LAREPLaboratoire de recherche en projet de paysage offers a PhD in Landscape Architecture Sciences and has 20 PhD candidates.

EMiLA (European Master in Landscape Architecture) is a two-year master’s curriculum created in 2014 by five leading European universities and schools of landscape architecture; AHK Amsterdam, ESALA Edinburgh, ETSAB Barcelona, LUH Hannover and ENSPÉcole nationale supérieure de paysage Versailles Marseille. The aim of this Master program is to foster students to be more aware of the European dimensions in landscape at policy level as well as at large/territorial-scale through design practice. The curriculum also offers the students an unique opportunity to learn from other universities' pedagogic methods, while enabling them to begin building their own future professional network in an international context.

Presentation of the position

Aims

The ambition of the EMiLAEuropean Master in Landscape Architecture Fellowship is to bring forth and foster emerging design educators whose work embody the potential for landscape as a relevant medium of design in the face of today’s societal and environmental challenges. While the main body of work will take place at ENSPÉcole nationale supérieure de paysage Versailles, the EMiLAEuropean Master in Landscape Architecture Fellow will also have an active role in reinforcing the partnerships between the EMiLAEuropean Master in Landscape Architecture institutions via different activities.

Agenda and Conditions

• Direct a student group in 1 to 2 Design Studios at Master 1 level during the 2023-2024 academic year.
• Co-author booklet(s) on the Design Studios.
• Participate in the organisation and take part in an EMiLAEuropean Master in Landscape Architecture Summer School (In France, in August 2024).

The EMiLAEuropean Master in Landscape Architecture Fellowship is a half-time position during the length of an academic year. It includes 192 contact hours. The work will begin in September 2023 and end in August 2024.

The candidate receives a French salary: depending on the candidate's curriculum this can vary from gross salary of €17,500€ to €21,000.

Eligibility

Landscape architects and designers from allied design professions who can demonstrate a significant engagement with landscape as a medium of design are invited to apply. Candidates active in academic and professional domains are both welcome. A good command of English is compulsory, the ability to communicate in French is considered an advantage.

The Selection Process

A jury composed of teaching staff from École nationale supérieure de paysage will select the 2023-2024 Fellow. The two-stage competition process will first identify a short-list of three finalists who then will be invited to video-call interviews in late May. The Jury will recommend a winner in the days following the interviews.

How to apply

Please submit the following application materials in PDF format (not larger than 25 MB) by Sunday 07.05.2023 at 23h59:

• Curriculum vitae
• Motivation letter
• Portfolio including design and other work (if relevant), max 30 pages
• A document describing pedagogical ideas and the general positioning of the candidate in relation to teaching landscape architectural design in the 21st century

Please name the pdfs as follows; EMiLA2324_Lastname_Firstname_documentname.pdf

Submit the documents by email as attachment(max 25MB) or by a wetransfer link  to: international@ecole-paysage.fr & l.mikkola@ecole-paysage.fr