Join us for the upcoming Autumn 2025 Design Studios Final Reviews!
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The Burke Meadow Team & Student Volunteers Plant 1,500 Native Bulbs, Plugs & Bare Roots
The Burke Meadow team, including CBE graduate students Eric Alipio and Marina Figueroa-Rowen, and undergraduates Jazzmyn Witrell (CBE), Kaydance Levesque (SEFS), and Kennedy Stone (Biology) recently planted over 1,500 native bulbs, plugs, and bare roots with help from student volunteers in the College of the Built Environment, the School of Environmental and Forestry Sciences, as well as volunteers from Oxbow Farm. A huge thank you to the team from Oxbow for showing up to fulfill the journey of these plants, many of which were sourced from their farm.
Congratulations to UW 2025 ASLA Award Winners
Congratulations to the Design Build Class of 2024 and Professor Daniel Winterbottom for receiving the 2025 ASLA Student Award of Excellence in Community Design. Their project, Stimulating the Senses: A Calming Retreat in a Skilled Nursing Setting, transformed the outdoor environment at Kline Galland Skilled Nursing Facility. Over two quarters, students engaged with staff and residents to design and build the Quint Family Sensory Garden- a restorative space centered on comfort, accessibility, and dignity.
MLA & MLA/MARCH Autumn ’25 Capstone Presentations
Join us Thursday, November 6th, between 11:30AM & 2:00PM, in Gould Court & Gould 100 for the first capstone project presentation for the MLA and dual major (MLA/MARCH) students. Guest reviewers will be providing feedback and engaging students in conversation around the strength of the proposed project, future project plans, and more!
Growing Food + Community: Youth Agriculture as Resilience
This Landscape Architecture Advanced Studio addressed design of urban agriculture that centers youth learning and agency to advance food justice and resilience in a changing climate.