Earth Laboratory. Exploring the artistic and scientific sides of landscape architecture.

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Speculative Storytelling
Multispecies Collaboration
Landscape Strategy & Regeneration

Elena Dobretsova (°1995, RU) is a landscape architect and physicist based in Amersfoort (NL), exploring the relationships between people, ecosystems, and the spaces they share. Fascinated by natural processes, she combines the artistic, fairytale-like nature of landscapes with the precision of a scientist. Her work illuminates cultural and societal dimensions beyond biophysical systems, imagining new possibilities for multispecies collaboration and coexistence.

Experience

Own practice
DS landschapsarchitecten
Amsterdam Academy of Architecture
BOOM Landscape

Podium voor architectuur Hoofddorp

Education

MSc Landscape Architecture
Pre Master Urbanism & Landscape Architecture
BSc, Hons. Physics

Exhibitions

Design Challenge Kunstloc Brabant
Graduation Show

Additional

Finalist Terra Viva Design Competition
Nominee Nederlandse Tuinenstichting Scriptieprijs
Tamayouz World’s Top 100 Graduation Projects

Landscape architect & researcher
Landscape architect

Guest lecturer and tutor
Landscape designer
Intern
Intern

Amsterdam Academy of Architecture
Amsterdam Academy of Architecture

Amsterdam University College

Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven

Academy of Architecture. Amsterdam

Wildlife Pavilions
NTs jury rapport
World’s Best Graduation Projects

2024 — now
2O22 — now
2023 — now
2020 — 2022
2019
2018 — 2019

2018 — 20222018

2014 — 2017

2024
2022

2023
2023
2023