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= Lys-Divine Ndemeye = Divine Ndemeye (born Lys-Divine Ndemeye) is a Burundi-Canadian landscape designer, artist, public speaker, and educator who speaks upon spatial agency in landscape design through the voices of BIPOC communities in Vancouver, Canada. She is an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia and was the recipient of the Landscape Architecture Foundation 2020 Olmsted Scholar Award; the "premier leadership recognition program" for Landscape Architecture students in the U.S and Canada. Throughout her career, she has been associated with many notable landscape architecture firms in Vancouver such as space2place and is the founder of the practice Remesha Design as well as the co-founder of the Black + Indigenous Design Collective. Ndemeye is known for her

Education
Ndemeye’s studied Political Science and Human Geography at the University of Alberta from 2008 to 2014 and was recognized as a "recipient of the Community Advancement Award from the University of Alberta African Students Association in 2011." She subsequently moved to Vancouver, British Columbia to continue further education at the University of British Columbia (UBC). With her background in adjacent fields to landscape architecture, Ndemeye pursued her design education in the Master of Landscape Architecture in the UBC School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urbanism program from 2016 to 2020. Throughout her graduate studies, her research central to the around current "social injustice[s] and human suffering" as a result of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Ndemeye's graduate work is presented in The Ethics of Form: Designing New Landscape Histories through an Alternative Pedagogy by Fionn Byrne, (Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia). He states that Ndemeye's work "consider[s] the political dimensions of specifying materials for built works". The thesis for her final Landscape Architecture Graduate Research project “Bujumbura 2050: A New Design Matrix” focuses on the rapid urban growth of African cities that shifts the physical, socio cultural and economic makeup of these cities. This project had developed a design strategy that encourages local identity, culture and phenomenology.

Career
After graduating at the University of British Columbia and acquiring her Masters in Landscape Architecture in 2018, Ndemeye went to work for a local design firm, PWL Partnership Landscape Architects, in Vancouver which is known for their reconstruction of the Vancouver Convention Center. Ndemeye then worked for landscape firm space2place, known for their work for, Garden City Park, Iona Island and Surrey Bend Regional Park. She represented space2place for many of the "Regular Meeting of Task Force on Facilities, Infrastructure and Public Realm" held by the corporation of The City of New Westminster in British Columbia.

During these positions, she had founded her own design practice, Remesha Design in 2020. In Kirundi, Ndemeye's native language, the word  'Remesha' means 'restoring hope'. Ndemeye's goal with her landscape and art practice provide a sense of hope through "engaging in conversations that empower and inspire audiences", as well as help people understand the impact of design in transforming communities towards life-sustaining systems. Afrofuturism in Ndemeye's work is stated it create "critical discourses" and "explorations of decolonized design paradigms which center and uplift marginalized communities" .The expression and acceptance of "black identity", agency and freedom through art and activism is is projected to liberate the futures for Black life. Nydemeye discusses topics such as activism and Afrofutuism on her podcast, Design Unmuted. This podcast aims to colloborate and garner perspectives and voices in design and art, focusing on BIPOC stories. Ndemeye is also a co-founder and designer for the Black + Indigenous Design Collective in Vancouver that "works towards the advancement of Black and Indigenous voices in the spatial design disciplines — urban planning, landscape architecture, and public art".

In 2020, Ndemeye was a recipient of the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) 2020 Olmsted Scholar Award; the "premier leadership recognition program" for Landscape Architecture students in the U.S and Canada. She had submitted an essay to the jury of the LAF Olmsted Scholars Program showcasing her "leadership potential through the use of ideas, influence, communication, service, and leadership to advance sustainable design and foster human and societal benefits." She has also been awarded the British Columbia Society of Landscape Architects President’s Award in the same year.