Jenny Elliott is an award-winning Chartered Landscape Architect and freelance Designer based in Edinburgh.

She is a strong advocate for design-led, collaborative and data-driven place-based approaches to reimagine and improve our cities and local places. Jenny combines expertise in urban design, placemaking and research with visual communication skills in graphic design, illustration, photography and film to document and share projects led by herself or others. 

Jenny recently led design and delivery of project ‘Future of the High Street’ in her former role as Smart Places Lead for the Edinburgh Futures Institute (Landscape Institute Award Finalist 2021). The project was in collaboration with New Practice, and the Data Driven Innovation programme and Edinburgh Living Lab at University of Edinburgh. Funded by the Scottish Funding Council, it combined citizen engagement with prototyping, urban data and high street research. 

Jenny’s current PhD explores how to overcome common barriers to realising better public spaces in practice.