Thank you for joining us at the #CBEchronicles lecture featuring Billy Fleming. We hope you enjoyed Dr. Fleming’s talk about Designing a Green New Deal. If you were not able to watch or want to watch again, check out the video!Missed our last #CBEchronicles or want to watch it again? The Green New Deal is the biggest design and environmental idea in a century, requiring a total transformation of the built and natural environment. Watch the recording to hear the discussion on how we can plan, design, and work together to deliver meaningful change.
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Please consider making a gift to the Landscape Architecture Fund for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. Thanks for the many ways you show up and support our CBE and LA community! https://online.gifts.washington.edu/peer2peer/Campaign/uw-landscape-architecture-fund-for-equity-diversity-inclusion
💻 Virtual Career Fair 🖊️
February 24th, 10 am - 3 pm and February 25th, 10 am - 3 pm
Registration for students and alumni is now open! Find more information and links to register here: be.uw.edu/becareerfair/
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Amazing work by MLA graduate, Janie Bube, and her startup Sensol. 💡
"Sensol is creating a crosswalk that illuminates from below as a pedestrian walks across it, with lighted panels in the street that keep in step with the person who is crossing (see rendering in video below)."
Seattle startup’s bright idea: High-tech crosswalk could signal a way to improve pedestrian safety
geekwire.com
On a rainy, foggy night in Seattle, an incident in a crosswalk changed the path that Janie Bube was on. A University of Washington student at the time, Bube was walking near t...
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Join us on Thursday, February 11 at 5 p.m. for our #cbechronicles: Designing a Green New Deal with Billy Fleming.
The Green New Deal is the biggest design and environmental idea in a century, requiring a total transformation of the built and natural environment. Billy Fleming discusses how we can plan, design, and work together to deliver meaningful change.
RSVP: buff.ly/2LmZvli
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The inaugural Black Landscape Symposium Speaker series kicked off yesterday. We are excited to support this event as sponsors and are looking forward to the incredible events happening throughout the month.
Register for events here: blacklanetwork.com/symposium
The next event is: Thursday, February 11, 6 pm: Burial sites & American infrastructure with Elizabeth Kennedy of Elizabeth Kennedy Landscape Architects, PLLC and Dayton Schroeter
Presented by the Black Landscape Architects Network, the Symposium highlights the important contributions of Black-identifying landscape architecture students, faculty and practitioners.
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Check out the Green New Deal Super Studio final report 🌲
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Skyway-West Hill and North Highline are racially and ethnically diverse, low-income communities in urban unincorporated King County whose residents are under increasing risk of displacement due to dramatic growth and rising housing costs in the region. To help address these concerns, King County partnered with the University of Washington Livable City Year (LCY) program so that students could conduct research and provide recommendations for anti-displacement strategies that might keep residents in place and encourage equitable development. This report reflects the work of the thirteen students (the LCY research team) who participated in the course over a span of eleven weeks.
Read their final report.
1 month ago
Equity at Work: Designing an Inclusive and Equitable Workplace Culture Survey
Help MLA Candidate, Jake Minden, with his research on workplace culture and equitable design practice.
This survey seeks to identify perceptions of workplace culture held by a wide range of design professionals in the fields of Architecture, Urban Planning and Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, and Interior Design. Your contribution will help generate recommendations to assess design practice workplace culture and make changes towards a more inclusive and equitable workplace.
The survey asks demographic questions; however, no identifiable information is collected. All responses are anonymous. The survey should take less than ten minutes to complete.
At the end of the survey, there is an opportunity to sign up for an online interview if you would like to share more information on the topic. You will be asked to use an email address to schedule and conduct the interview. Your email address will be unattached from any data you provide and discarded at the end of the records retention period, as required by state law.
The survey will remain open until the end of February. For questions about the research, contact: Student Researcher, Jake Minden, MLA Candidate, Department of Landscape Architecture, Jminden@uw.edu
This research is part of the Applied Research Consortium (ARC) through the University of Washington College of Built Environments.
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Your participation is greatly appreciated! The input you provide is anonymous and will contribute to a student research project aimed at assessing and improving workplace culture for more just an...
1 month ago
Jake Minden, MLA Candidate '21, talks about his Applied Research Consortium project.
"If our history is racist, and our built environment is racist, then the institutions responsible for designing the built environment must be racist too."
Read more from his blog post.
Racial Equity Within Built Environment Design Practice -
larch.be.uw.edu
In my final year of the MLA program, I’ve been given the opportunity to participate in the Applied Research Consortium (ARC), a new program within the college that links gr...
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"With nowhere else to go, people experiencing homelessness increasingly occupy spaces designed by landscape architects: parks, medians, overpasses, stream corridors, and urban forests."
From Washington, DC to Walla Walla, Washington, FASLA and UW//LA alum, Brice Maryman documents the legal and ethical landscape of regulating homelessness in this article from Landscape Architecture Magazine.
landscapearchitecturemagazine.org
BY BRICE MARYMAN, FASLA FROM THE FEBRUARY 2020 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE. With nowhere else to go, people experiencing homelessness increasingly occupy spaces ...
2 months ago
Students from our introductory landscape architecture studio tackled their first design projects and blew us away with their skills, ideas, and dialogue. Here’s a sneak peak of some of their projects. Many thanks to Professor Kristi Park for directing the virtual studio and keeping the class occupied with brain-stretching sketching exercises!
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