Flynn Hart

Flynn established Pollen with a deep conviction that stewardship and a sense of shared responsibility to land, ecologies, climate and Country should be central to all landscape architectural practice. 

He helps to actively build a world where landscape architecture plays a leading role in meeting generational challenges like climate change adaptation and Indigenous self-determination by always working for the benefit of communities and their environment. 

With over fifteen years growing Pollen, he has guided, collaborated and supported communities, clients and stakeholders through design, consultation, management and delivery of spaces, places and landscapes in urban and rural places. 

With a passion for, and foundation in, sustainable thinking, Flynn has built a team with heart that deliver positive social and environmental places that grow and adapt with their community into the future. While Pollen is equally at home in urban and regional landscapes, Flynn’s childhood growing up in rural Victorian and Tasmanian island settings means he has a special interest in delivering ambitious projects for communities living off the beaten track. 

He divides his time between Pollen’s Melbourne office and his home studio in Castlemaine. In the latter, when he’s not leading Pollen, you can find him monitoring his beehive, taming his rambunctious garden and vegetable patches with his family. 

Chris Cham

Chris takes a creative and pragmatic approach to designing landscapes for the future. As a Senior Landscape Architect, she leads and supports the team across a range of exciting and complex projects, to craft dynamic and resilient landscapes. She has worked in New South Wales and Victoria over a number of years, and approaches practice with thought and focus on experiences and changes that may influence design outcomes and how everything comes together. 

Her interests lie in wilderness experiences, repurposing residual infrastructure, urban in-fill, storytelling and visual art within landscapes. She believes in creating welcoming and inclusive experiences and is keen to explore ideas that feed into the awe and wonderment of discovery and engagement with place. 

She is often with a Copic, paintbrush, or stylus in hand, working through concepts and figuring out how elements come together. When she’s not drawing, she’s out collecting natural, fallen materials as inspiration whilst exploring creeks, parklands and spaces in-between. 

Her love of colours and patterns often find their way into plans and planting palettes, with favourite plants of banksias, grevilleas and proteas. 

Matt McKone

Matt believes in the power of design to bring people closer to nature, whether it be within the wilderness or suburb. As a landscape architect at Pollen, Matt has supported and led a variety of projects at different scales. He has been instrumental within the Danks St and Bothwell St bio-link projects, in collaboration with Conservation Volunteers Australia and the University of Melbourne to bring biodiversity back to urban areas within the City of Port Phillip.

Hailing from New Zealand, his theoretical studies have honed his interest areas within practice, whilst hands-on experience within the construction industry, completing his Horticultural apprenticeship working on residential landscape construction projects, guides his appreciation of built landscape outcomes.

He loves the outdoors and his thesis, Enabling Wilderness, proposes the idea of a wheelchair accessible multi-day hike within New Zealand. The outcome led him to become an advocate for inclusive design within wilderness areas; using his spare time to assist the New Zealand organisation, Accessible Outdoors, to explore ways to make the next ‘Great Walk’ accessible. 

Liv Bloch

Liv has a love, care, and curiosity for all spaces: large and small, urban and wild, cherished and forgotten. With a Fine Art undergraduate degree from RMIT University and a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Melbourne, she has a knack for bringing places to life with vibrant compositions of colour, texture and moments of play, while still holding their true character and story at heart.

Liv was drawn to landscape architecture by its intersection of people, science, art, storytelling, flora, and fauna. She has a keen interest in adaptive design that tackles and responds to climate change, with a particular soft spot for nature reserves, wetlands and waterways, and sites that pose unique creative challenges through unusual characteristics. 

Outside of Pollen, you’ll find Liv drawing and painting, hiking (sometimes sketching along the way, and almost always trying to document all mysterious types of lichen, fungi and tiny life), working on various creative writing projects, or photographing the stars.

Izzy David

Having grown up in regional Victoria, Izzy brings a sensitivity to and knowledge of the workings of regional communities and is passionate about generating meaningful, community-driven outcomes through her work. 

Since joining the Pollen team in 2023, Izzy has supported a variety of projects at different scales, including masterplanning, playspaces, waterways and walking trails. Her particular interest in carbon-positive design has led her to pursue research into carbon calculations and material origins, helping her to gain a clearer picture of the environmental impact of each project.

Alongside her work, she is currently completing a Master of Landscape Architecture at RMIT where she continues to develop her critical design practice and helps to organise social events and volunteer opportunities with her peers. 

Outside of the studio, Izzy can be found at a life drawing class, wandering the Merri Creek and squeezing in ocean swims wherever she can.