Suzanne Mathew is a licensed landscape architect with a diverse background in landscape architecture, architecture, and science. She is an Associate Professor and the Graduate Program Director in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she has taught for 12 years.
Mathew’s work centers on creating methods to measure and visualize the climate and environment. She uses a variety of approaches—artistic, theoretical, and scientific—to connect objective data with our sensory experiences of the environment. Her research includes developing interactive digital tools, field methods for capturing fleeting environmental conditions, and both hand-drawn and digital techniques for depicting spaces that evolve with the climate.
She has published and presented her research on temporally dynamic environments both in the U.S. and internationally. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Landscape Architecture and in books such as Fieldwork in Landscape Architecture: Methods, Actions, Tools (Horrigan and Oles), Representing Landscapes: Hybrid (Amoroso), and Innovations in Landscape Architecture (Anderson and Ortega).
Mathew has also participated in artist and research residencies at the MacDowell Artist Colony, the Siena Art Institute, the Swedish Landscape University, and Dumbarton Oaks.