Announcing the Margolese Prize 2022 recipient: Jane Wolff

UBC SALA has named Jane Wolff as
the recipient of the 2022 Margolese Design for Living Prize.

The
Toronto-based landscape designer and scholar uses public engagement, writing, and drawing to help disparate communities make sense of the natural and human made
environment.


One of the highest design accolades in Canada, the annual $50,000 Margolese
Prize spotlights a Canadian citizen who uses design to encourage a greater
understanding of the built environment. “Jane Wolff enriches places and elevates
the lives of people through design,” says UBC SALA Director Ron Kellett. “Her
innovative methods address the intersections of built and natural environments, in a
creatively accessible way.”

A Professor at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
at the University of Toronto, Wolff works on the premise that different people see
and experience the same landscape in various ways, and her research goal is
to unite these diverse perceptions into a universally comprehensible language.
By generating a unique vocabulary for each landscape, she discovers and tells
meaningful stories about a site’s past and present circumstances and to address its
future.

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