Sebastian Cocks

Seb is particularly concerned with the health of the natural temperate grasslands of Victoria’s Volcanic Plain and currently volunteers as a Young Steward of the Iramoo Grassland Reserve in St Albans. Seb graduated with a Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) with Distinction from RMIT University in 2023 and continued his involvement with the university as a research assistant until 2024.

Seb’s thesis project for the MLA, named Patchwork Plains, explored methods of reintegrating Victoria’s native grasslands back into the western suburbs of Melbourne (Naarm). The project was awarded the RMIT Landscape Architecture Design Research Prize for 2022, was nominated for the 2023 Hassell Travelling Scholarship and was awarded one of Landscape Architecture Australia’s 2022 National Landscape Architecture Student Prizes. Patchwork Plains was also selected by RMIT as the university’s entry into the Manuel Ribas International School Prize at the Barcelona Landscape International Biennial.

Seb is passionate about urban ecological conservation and promoting biodiversity within our cities. He enjoys balancing the detailed design of urban habitats with large-scale systems thinking. In his time at LatStudios he has worked on various master plans and Council strategies relating to open space curation and pedestrian & cyclist connectivity, as well as planting and landscape designs for a variety of public and private spaces around Australia.