Farre “Faye” Nixon is an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and founder of idyll minds, a collaborative, creative practice. Her research – an inquisition into ubiquitous and emerging technologies as they augment, undermine, or override the natural world – confronts the use of technology as a corrective to uncertainty in nature.

Faye holds a Bachelor of Science in Urban Studies and Planning from MIT and dual master’s degrees in architecture and landscape architecture from the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design. She is a 2024-25 fellow of the Dean’s Equity and Inclusion Initiative and has previous professional experience with practices in New York, Philadelphia, Oslo, and Los Angeles.