School's Out! #56 with Robin Winogrond
A lecture by Robin Winogrond as part of a series of the School's Out! landscape lectures, curated by Peter Veenstra and Leire Calvillo. Friday 27 February 2026, 20:00 - 22:00.
St. Gallen Natural History Museum Park is a project by Robin Winogrond with Studio Vulkan. Located at the city’s edge above a highway tunnel, the site reflects the paradox of the Swiss landscape, where infrastructure, urban periphery, and pastoral fragments intersect. The design explores the blurred duality of artificial nature and natural artificiality, weaving stone, concrete, and vegetation into a park that invites visitors to experience natural history while reflecting on contemporary relationships to nature.
School's Out! #56 - Robin Winogrond
School’s Out! on 27 February was the second event in a series of landscape lectures curated by Peter Veenstra and Leire Calvillo. For this edition, they invited Swiss landscape architect, Robin Winogrond.
Conceptually, spatially, and atmospherically, Robin's projects offer site-specific and concrete built experiences of such intangible themes as identity of place, atmosphere, embodied experience and social engagement. Her projects express the site specific, poetic potential of residual suburban and urban sites, transforming their inherent identity and contradictions into potent narratives and experiences of our contemporary built environment.
Central themes involve her concept of Geographical (Re)enchantment, atmosphere, imagination, the phenomenology of experience, environmental psychology and activating social space. Social interactions and the unfolding of human experience within urban space, social behavior, and psychology of space build important foundations for all projects.
About the School's Out! Landscape Lectures
In light of climate change and global distress, many of us are trying to rebalance the ecological impact we have, as individuals, professionals, and as a society. While doing so, we are in need of inspiring examples; role models, ideas, and images. Landscape architects have been working on these ideas and places for decades, combining poetry with pragmatism, creating sustainable utopias that can survive in a world built on business cases, a world without time, with vandalism, indifferent clients, and ignorant dog-owners. Their work is not carbon-neutral or LEED Platinum, but it’s beautiful and inspiring, it brings people together and closer to nature.
Throughout the year, Peter Veenstra and Leire Calvillo will invite different landscape architects who have created inspiring, intimate places that offer a glimpse of what our daily future could look like if we commit to a socio-ecological transition.
Programme
19:30 - 20:00 Doors open
20:00 - 21:15 Presentation by Robin Winogrond + Q&A
21:15 - 22:00 Drinks and aftertalk
About Robin Winogrond
Robin Winogrond is landscape architect and urban designer in Zurich, Switzerland. Since 2018 she has taught studio courses at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, while practicing internationally on projects, juries, lecturing, teaching and publishing. Her interdisciplinary background is reflected in her broad approach and practice, which ranges from built urban space and artistic installations, over gardens to concepts for large and small-scale open and public space. Numerous projects have received prizes both in Switzerland and internationally. She was Resident Artist at Stuttgart Academy of Art, holds a Master’s in Landscape Architecture and Bachelor’s in Urban Design. She is a co-founder of Studio Vulkan Landschaftsarchitektur, where she was a partner in 2014-2020.
The Voice of Memory - a project by Robin Winogrond for the design of a new public space on the site of the former Nazi military base Grossdeutschland. Incorporating a sound installation, the project offers a provocative and innovative way to re-read and experience history. By weaving public space, collective memory, and individual experience, the sound collages create a direct and personal engagement with the site’s complexity, inviting reflection on the monumental military events that shaped Europe’s recent past.