Shannon Baker

Shannon Baker is Project Director, Parks and Public Realm for the Port Lands Flood Protection project at Waterfront Toronto. Her 25-year practice as a Licensed Landscape Architect and Registered Professional Planner has involved award winning concrete and speculative work across Canada and internationally, and has always been situated at the intersection of landscape, ecology, and urbanism. Throughout her career, Shannon has led projects that explore the past and present of the landscape, examining cultural uses in relationship to ecological systems through the lenses of current design philosophy and emerging technologies. She is passionate about urban rewilding, reconnecting people with nature, integrated climate adaptation and regenerative design.

Championing design excellence for nearly a decade through her work at Waterfront Toronto, Shannon has led some of the most complex and transformative work on the waterfront, including The Bentway Phase I and the recently opened Biidaasige Park in the Port Lands.