Other career highlights include the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) National Future Leaders Scholarship (2009), the Adelaide Magazine’s 'Urban Warrior' feature (2008), and having his portrait displayed at the Celebrating Innovators exhibition at Federal Parliament House (2012). He served as AILA NSW President (2019-2020), was a founding member of the award-winning Biocity Design Research Studio (2006-09) and weekly radio show The Plan (2011-12). He has three decades of involvement with landscape architecture professional institutes and is a keynote speaker at international and national conferences. He regularly contributes to workshops, forums, juries and panels. 

Dr Joshua Zeunert is an Associate Professor at Adelaide University in the College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities, in the School of Architecture and Built Environment. Motivated by a deep care for the more-than-human world, his multi modal practice explores the dynamics of human activities, landscape impacts, and environmental change over time. Josh is interdisciplinary in his research (spatial cartography, landscape studies, agriculture, environmental humanities), practice (landscape architecture, urban design, strategic planning, architecture) and qualifications (landscape architecture, architecture, built environment design and environmental studies). His PhD was one of the first by Publication in landscape architecture. Joshua has published four award-winning books including Sydney’s Food Landscapes (2025), Landscape Architecture and Environmental Sustainability (Bloomsbury, 2017) and the Routledge Handbook of Landscape and Food (2018). Josh has exhibited and curated, including at the Venice Biennial (2023), at Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum (2023) and Australian arts icon Bundanon (2022). Josh has won over 25 awards, grants and fellowships in professional practice and academia. He was the first Australian landscape architect to receive a prestigious Australian Research Council (ARC) ‘DECRA’ scholarship (2020-23), the first landscape architect at UNSW into its high performance Scientia Program (2020-26) and the inaugural winner of the Distinguished Creative Researc...