Ann Kearsley

Ann Kearsley is a registered landscape architect and urban designer and the owner and founding principal of two landscape architecture firms, Ann Kearsley Design (AKD, est. 1983) and No-Man’s Land Design (est. 2024), both based in Portland, ME. AKD is a full-service landscape architecture firm specializing in ecologically based design, linking landscape form and spatial structure to the dynamics of a site’s natural systems and the enhancement of ecosystem function. No-Man’s Land Design is a research practice centered on the integration of human and wildlife habitats using the Rights-of-Nature as an ethical framework supporting biodiversity and intentional interspecies sharing of environmental resources in the built environment.
 
Kearsley holds master’s degrees in both landscape architecture and urban design from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and an AB in English and comparative literature from Dartmouth College. She is a frequent presenter at local and regional conferences on ecological landscape design and stormwater management and has chaired numerous workshops and symposia on the integration of landscape architecture and ecological restoration at the Society for Ecological Restoration’s international and European conferences (Vancouver 2024, 2021/Virtual, Iceland 2018, Brazil 2017, Germany 2016).