Julia Hedges

NASEM Gulf Landscape Fellow

Julia Hedges is an educator and design researcher whose work develops collective strategies for the organization and management of waste landscapes, interrogating property, territory, and the underground. She has previously taught landscape and architecture studios alongside courses in representation and research as a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Auburn University and as a studio instructor at the University of Wisconsin SARUP. 

Julia holds a Master of Landscape Architecture degree with distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she was awarded an ASLA Certificate of Merit and a Penny White Fund Grant to study Kentucky karst geology. In her collaborative MLA thesis, further developed as part of the 2025 Yiddishland Pavilion, she reimagined the Jewish summer camp as a method for historical interpretation and as an diasporic, anti-territorial practice. Her design for a logistics collective was exhibited in the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale. She has presented her work at ACSA and the Council of Educator’s in Landscape Conference, and published in USC SPACE and ARGUS.

Julia grew up in Chicago and earned her Bachelor of Arts in architecture from Yale University.  Her approach to teaching and design revolves around the construction of narratives to draw relationships across processes, histories, actors, scales and artifacts to generate new forms of architectural knowledge.