Imke van Hellemondt is researcher and lecturer in Architectural History and the Designed Environment at the Faculty of Humanities, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
She lectured landscape architecture history at the Academy of Architecture Amsterdam and was Chief Article Editor for the Journal of Landscape Architecture for over seven years.
Her field of research is the history of ecology and nature-culture relationships in Dutch landscape design and its international context since the nineteenth century.
Together with Luca Csepely-Knorr and Ulrike Krippner she is leading the AHRC funded project IFLA 75: Uncovering Hidden Histories. The project intends to strengthen and expand international expertise and collaboration for the preservation and use of landscape architecture archives in the Network of European Landscape architecture Archives (NELA), consisting of archivists, researchers and educators in landscape architecture.
She has researched the relationship between open space, planting design and buildings of the VU campus, for the 50th anniversary of its main building in 2023; a project in collaboration with Iris Burgers, Minke Walda and Freek Schmidt.
For her long term research into the ideas, networks and practice of Dutch ecological landscape design she collaborates with Bruno Notteboom (University of Ghend) and Marlies Brinkhuijsen (Wageningen University and Research).
