Emily Eliza Scott (b. 1971) is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), and founding member of the art collectives the Los Angeles Urban Rangers and World of Matter. She also served as a National Park Service ranger from 1994 to 2005. Emily's research focuses on art and design practices that engage pressing (political) ecological issues, often with the intent to actively transform real-world conditions. More broadly, she is interested in art and environmental justice, art and activism, critical approaches to the built environment, visual cultures of nature, land-based art from the 1960s-present, institutional critique, and the capacity of art to produce non-instrumental forms of sensing and knowing. She is a contributor to 'Ends of the Earth: Art of the Land to 1974' and 'Geohumanities: Art, History, and Text at the Edge of Place', and has published articles in American Art, Art Journal, Cultural Geographies, and Third Text. She is currently Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Environmental Studies at the College of Design faculty of the University of Oregon.
