5 credits
MW 12:30-2:20
Social, environmental, and climate injustices manifest in the landscapes we inhabit, impacting both human and more-than- human communities. Focusing on a series of case studies, we will explore equitable design processes and places that catalyze more just futures. With guest speakers, in-class exercises and discussions, projects, fieldwork, and readings, we will examine
meaningful design principles for change; how impacted communities give voice and action in collaborative design processes; what roles environmental designers and others may play; and what is needed to foster systemic change.
L ARCH 353/553 Modern Landscape Architecture Histories
5 Credits A&H/SSc+Writing
TTh 11:30–2:20
This course explores landscape sites, systems, and symbols from the early 19th century until the present moment, stressing the intersections and entanglements of people and place in history with current politics, experiences, and ecologies. Through creative “lab” exercises, diverse media, and collaborative processes, we will critically examine the writing, production, and performance of landscape and its histories thematically through the diverse lenses of: power and ownership; memory and representation; knowledge and experience; labor and production; materiality and technological innovation; climate disruption and social change; identity and emotion; and race, class, and gender.
L ARCH 361 Experience of Place
3 credits A&H/SSc+Div
TTh 10:00-11:20
This course is designed to help us think deeply about place and our role and responsibilities in caring for the world around us. We shape our environments in increasing impactful ways, altering the trajectory of the globe with climate change and continued social injustices. We need to understand people-place relationships better if we are to alter that trajectory for the greater good. Using a multidisciplinary lens, this class will examine a range of place-based
issues and placemaking efforts including: Place meanings + attachments, Relationships to nature, Multispecies transitions and design, Urban change + the right to the city, The politics of public space, Design activism.
Through in-class activities, lectures, writing reflections, and simple field exercises, this course will help you think more critically about the physical world around you and your relationship to it.