Mark Jacques

Mark Jacques is an Urban Designer and Landscape Architect with more than thirty years’ experience across a wide scope of public projects. His projects have won significant awards, including the Australia Award for Urban Design, The Melbourne Prize and the Premier’s Design Award. In 2016 he founded Openwork, an office undertaking projects in public space, landscape architecture, urban design, research and speculation. In 2015, Mark was appointed Professor of Architecture (Urbanism) Industry Fellow within RMIT’s School of Architecture and Urban Design. In 2021 Mark was appointed to the inaugural Melbourne Design Review Panel, part of the City of Melbourne’s Design Excellence Program. In 2022, he completed his PhD at RMIT’s School of Architecture and Urban Design entitled ‘Interloping and its consequences: Poaching, opportunism and making mischief in the design of public spaces’.