Edda Ostertag is a certified landscape architect with over fifteen years of experience in the research, design, and planning of urban landscapes. Since 2018, she has been a research associate at the Technical University of Berlin, where she contribute to teaching and research at the Chair of Landscape Architecture and Open Space Planning. Her work examines the interrelations between ecological, spatial, and social processes in urban landscapes, with a focus on how design can engage with the challenges of the Anthropocene through experimental and transdisciplinary approaches.
Previously, Edda was a researcher at the Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore—a joint programme of the Singapore National Research Foundation and ETH Zurich—where she investigated urbanisation processes, water-based urban systems, and the interplay between landscape and infrastructure in rapidly transforming territories. Before entering academia, she worked for more than seven years in interdisciplinary offices of landscape architecture and urban planning, developing projects across scales and cultural contexts. Her current research focuses on open space planning, performative and temporary urbanism, and multispecies perspectives on urban biodiversity. Through both research and design practice, Edda seeks to advance critical and situated understandings of landscape as a transformative medium in contemporary urbanisation.