Our climate future demands transformation—a courageous and collective understanding of our world, novel approaches to living, and generous models of stewardship and intervention. Design and planning possess a distinctive fusion of technical knowledge, synthetic creativity, and inclusive methods that can be defined as both radical and practical. How can these practices, which center the physical world and its making, inspire individuals and communities to reimagine the changing environment and their essential relationship to it?
That question is a starting point for this two-day symposium which spotlights innovative
design and climate research happening at the School of Architecture and beyond as a
springboard for profoundly re-thinking how future generations will thrive. Join us for a
series of conversations with scholars, practitioners, government, and community leaders
with applied expertise in socio-ecological systems, material culture and craft, and community engagement, who are working to make climate transformation possible.
The first panel on the second day of the symposium will be a faculty-led panel discussion, “Slow Change: Interrogating the Unseen in Vast Landscapes”
With a focus on the Mid-Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, this panel addresses the exacerbated vulnerabilities and intertwined fates of the cultural landscapes and ecosystems in these regions. Ranging from policy analysis to data collection, remote sensing, and historical documentation, we discuss investigative methods that take on the climate challenges of these vast, slowly changing landscapes.
The panel will include:
Brian Davis, Associate Professor, Dept. of Landscape Architecture
Marantha Dawkins, Lecturer, Dept. of Landscape Architecture
Michael Luegering, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Landscape Architecture
Jennifer Lawrence, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Urban and Environmental Planning
Erin Putalik, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Landscape Architecture and Architecture
In conversation with special guest:
Diane Jones Allen, D. Eng, Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Texas at Arlington
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