Marit Janse

Marit Janse (1977, Rotterdam) is a landscape architect with an approach based on the cultural and natural distinctiveness of a place and the importance of the added value of an intervention. Flora and fauna serve as key clients in this regard. Marit aims to develop a different attitude towards nature, creating conditions for life. The factor of time is a determining element: the seasons throughout the year, the longue durée of landscape transformation. In her projects, Marit enjoys collaborating with ecologists, scientists, artists, engineers, and other disciplines to connect them within the spatial design.

Marit worked for a long time as a civil servant designing for the cities of Rotterdam and Dordrecht. She is currently a senior landscape architect at De Urbanisten – an urban planning and landscape architecture firm in Rotterdam that designs climate-adaptive and nature-sensitive cities. She works on projects such as Getijdenpark Keilehaven and coordinates the research agenda City of Trees and Plants. Marit is a guest lecturer at the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam and Rotterdam.