"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.
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BY BRICE MARYMAN, FASLA FROM THE FEBRUARY 2020 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE. With nowhere else to go, people experiencing homelessness increasingly occupy spaces ...
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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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Join us on Tuesday for the second conversation in the Stir Well series, Muddled Uncertainty and Mixed Futures: Crafted Landscape Scenarios of Change. RSVP to join.
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"When we published “All Ours” in July 2020—the commanding essay by Thaïsa Way, FASLA, with photography by Sahar Coston-Hardy, Affiliate ASLA, on the shocking theft of public space at Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C., that summer—we did not imagine that we would see a day more shameful than the one called out in those pages. That day is here."
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THE THEFT OF A HISTORIC SITE FOR FREE EXPRESSION CASTS LIGHT ON THE VALUE OF PUBLIC SPACE IN A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY. When we published “All Ours” in July 2020&md...
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Interested in giving your time? Our Professional Advisory Council is collecting a list of volunteers for future opportunities (i.e., studio crits, portfolio reviews, PAC lunch chats, site visits...). Visit the site to sign up!
Professional Advisory Council -
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The Professional Advisory Council (PAC) is a volunteer group of practicing landscape architects, formed to support the Department’s teaching, outreach and fundraising effor...
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When considering your giving this year, we hope you will join us in contributing $20.21 to the student-initiated Landscape Architecture Fund for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. This newly created, student-led fund aims to directly support UW//LA programs for justice in design education and, more explicitly, activities oriented toward improving equity, diversity, and inclusion in landscape architecture.
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Link located here: https://online.gifts.washington.edu/peer2peer/Campaign/uw-landscape-architecture-fund-for-equity-diversity-inclusion
Join the NW Faculty Exchange, on January 12 for the second lecture in the series, featuring guest speaker Dan Cronan from the University of Idaho and host Kees Lokman from the University of British Columbia.
Learn more here: larch.be.uw.edu/event-calendar/nw-faculty-exchange/
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Congrats to Dani Slowik, BLA '22, one of this year's Charles Fountain internship recipients!
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From Kurt Culbertson, Chairman/CEO of Design Workshop: "The Charles Fountain internship program was established by Design Workshop in honor of Dr. Fountain, founder of the Landscape Architecture Program at North Carolina A&T State University in appreciation of his pioneering efforts. This internship was created to provide opportunities for students, who are often underrepresented in the fields of landscape architecture and planning, to gain experience in an interdisciplinary design office environment. Selected from over 60 applicants and representing 9 universities, these students are the future of our profession. We are excited to have you here!"
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“...what if through our continued and shared commitment to building together a more just society we resisted those forces that would pull us apart and instead engaged in the work with the intent of being ‘connected?’” -Kofi Boone, “Black Landscapes Matter,” Ground Up
Help us get to our goal of 30 donors this year. Make a contribution to the UW Landscape Architecture Fund for Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion today: online.gifts.washington.edu/peer2peer/campaign/uw-landscape-architecture-fund-for-equity-diversit...
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Check out the studio book from Julie Johnson's Autumn 2019 graduate studio: Climate Changed Urban Agriculture | Autumn 2019
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We are almost to our 30 donor goal!
Donate to the recently launched Landscape Architecture Fund for Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion.
The Landscape Architecture Fund for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion will provide financial support for student work and departmental programming related to student leadership and activism, justice in design education, and departmental representation.
Support the EDI fund: online.gifts.washington.edu/peer2peer/campaign/uw-landscape-architecture-fund-for-equity-diversit...
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We are striving for a UW//LA department where students and faculty collaboratively advance the work of justice and equity within the field of landscape architecture. We envision a community where Black, Indigenous, and POC students feel welcome and supported. We envision a department that can offer curriculum and programming representative of our communities’ diversities. We envision a department that is stronger because of the knowledge and ideas of more racially and ethnically diverse student cohorts.
Donate to help make this a reality.
UW//LA Fund for Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion
online.gifts.washington.edu
A student-initiated, and student-led fund that aims to financially support JEDI-oriented work within the field of landscape architecture.
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