TCLF’s latest conference, Leading with Landscape IV: Transforming North Carolina’s Research Triangle, was held on April 13, 2018, at the James B. Hunt, Jr., Library at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. Topics explored include the regionally unique coupling of human and natural systems, how the area’s campus landscapes are serving as “incubators” for innovative planning and design solutions, new projects that are re-evaluating the region’s monuments and memorials, two revered public landscapes—Moore Square and Dix Park—and much more. To learn more about the conference: https://tclf.org/sites/default/files/microsites/raleigh2018/index.html
Panelist – Panel I: The Research Triangle’s Emerging Urban Public Realm: Campus Landscapes Lead by Example as Incubators and Laboratories for Fresh Ideas and Approaches
Gary Hilderbrand, FASLA, FAAR, Founding Principal and Partner, Reed Hilderbrand LLC; Professor in Practice, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Changing Constructs: Student Life and Campus Landscape
Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr., advocating for landscape architecture’s instrumentality in 1866, urged Massachusetts College of Agriculture trustees to “include arrangements designed to favorably affect the habits and inclinations of your students, and to qualify them for a wise and beneficent exercise of the rights and duties of citizens and of householders.” Olmsted makes explicit his belief in design as an agent of social order and civic engagement. How does campus design shape student life? And how does social change across generations influence the way we design on campus?
This talk examines a decade-long transformation at Duke University for a precinct that aggregates essential aspects of student life today—dining, convening, shopping, performance, health and fitness, activism and cultural identity, study and relaxation. Duke’s Brodhead Center, Crown Commons, and Penn Pavilion revise the way students live and work on a campus that has evolved from ecclesiastical roots to a culture that promotes open discourse, diversity, inclusion, and empowerment. How do we square traditions of conformity and exclusivity—and the shared memory of the iconic campus landscape that supported this—with the patterns we see today in technology- and media-influenced socialization? We look at landscape architecture’s role as a gathering force for social engagement on campus across time.
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