Pacific Northwest Geodesign Forum: Geodesign for a Sustainable World May 7th, 2014 8am – 4pm University of Washington, Seattle Campus, Husky Union Building (HUB) Lyceum How will geospatial technologies contribute more broadly and deeply to a changing world? Personnel from four UW colleges and professionals from the greater Seattle region have come together to organize a participatory forum on this topic. Bill Miller, co-inventor of Esri ModeBuilder, former Director of Esri Geodesign Services, co-coiner of the term “Geodesign”, and now Principal,…
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Tea Talk: Sarah Geurkink, UW Farm, April 23rd at 4:30
UW Farm manager Sarah Geurkink will share about the history, mission, and current programs taking place at the UW Farm’s three sites at the Botany Greenhouse, Center for Urban Horticulture, and Mercer Court Apartments. She will speak at 4:30PM on Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014, in Gould 110. Download the flier as a PDF.
Integration and the Built Environment Symposium
BE*connected: A Symposium on Integration & the Built Environment Hosted by the UW CBE Ph.D. Program in the Built Environment Friday 25 April 2014, 9:30–12:30 in Gould Court Following last year’s successful ‘BE More’ symposium on interdisciplinarity, the ‘BE Connected’ symposium will engage the active synergies of collaborative research and multidisciplinary scholarship in the built environment focusing on the connections and engagements members of the CBE community have made through their studies, work and community activities. BE Connected will bring together students…
UW Students Designing Proposed U-Dist Parklet
Businesses and residents near 43rd and University Way are in conversation with SDOT and grad students in Landscape Architecture about extending the city’s pilot Parklet program with a new site on the Ave. Read about it at The Daily.
UW Faculty Recognized by Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture
Three University of Washington faculty won awards at the CELA (Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture) Conference this year in Baltimore. The council gave Ben Spencer the CELA Excellence in Service Learning Award. Nancy Rottle won the Excellence in Studio Teaching Award. Professor Emeritus David Streatfield was inducted as a CELA Fellow. Also pictured here in front of the Baltimore skyline are Barbara Deutch, Executive Director of the Landscape Architecture Foundation and Jeff Hou, UW Landscape Architecture Departmental Chair.
Student Project Seeds Future of Desolate Peru Community
Newfound hope, sense of investment spring from 29 household gardens funded by UW By Bobbi Nodell | HSNewsBeat | Link to original article For a group of UW students looking to improve lives in a desert slum in Peru, creating green space has been a daunting challenge. But the rewards have been great: Flowers and vegetables are now growing behind trellises, fences and rock walls – a powerful example of hope for the community’s residents. Comunidad Ecologica Saludable (Healthy Ecological Community)…
Thaisa Teaching Thunderdome Style
(courtesy of UC Berkeley) The University of California Berkeley has launched a debate series that highlights this year’s 100th anniversary of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning. Professor Thaisa Way was invited to debate with professor Randy Hester in a “generational face-off.” The following is an excerpt from a article published on January 30, 2014. ————————————————————————————————————————————- No more talking heads “In general, academic departments run talking heads lecture series where a guest comes in and does an hour…
BrownBag Presentation | Scott Melbourne, University of Hong Kong
Scott Jennings Melbourne is an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Hong Kong who possesses more than a decade of experience in professional practice. His research investigates the role of landscape as a medium and discipline in rapidly developing regions, with a particular focus on the dramatic post-reform transformations of contemporary China. Melbourne is a graduate of UW’s BLA program and holds the degree of MLA with Distinction from Harvard University.
Kongjian Yu Lecture Online
The recent lecture by Dr. Kongjian Yu is now up on the BE Vimeo page. Take a look
Green Seed Fund brings sustainable ideas to life
(article by Matthew Spaw courtesy of The Daily of the University of Washington) The Green Seed Fund, working off of the university’s Climate Action Plan to achieve a net output of zero greenhouse gases, is helping to make the ideas of those at the UW a reality. The Green Seed Fund grants funding to select projects proposed by faculty, students, and staff of the UW that contribute to environmental sustainability. The fund is sponsored by the UW Office of Environmental…