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CBE Diversity Council Updates

CBE BIPOC Lunch: On Wednesday, February 23rd, the College of Built Environments’ Diversity Council hosted its first BIPOC Student Lunch at the Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center on Wednesday, February 23. The aim of the lunch was to provide a fun, inclusive space for BIPOC students from the different CBE disciplines to meet and converse. The lunch was a great success! We had a lively group of folks from all departments and we look forward to hosting another BIPOC student…

Curriculum Corner

Students at Ecolibrium Farm in Woodinville, WA Kristi Park and Tim Lehman on L ARCH 502A The Farm Studio The “Farm Studio” included an in-depth look at food cultivation focused on a peri-urban, 12 acre site in Woodinville, WA. Students were given the freedom to deep dive on many topics related to the food systems including community building, equitable access to food, public policy, land-use law,  agricultural education, and climate resilience.  This course also explored the journey of food systems from…

Faculty Feature

Professors Thaïsa Way and Ken Yocom recently published a chapter, “Infrastructural Wilderness: Seattle and the Binding of City and Region” in the new book Urban Cascadia and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice (2021,UW Press) edited by Nik Janos and Corina McKendry In Sept 2021, Professor Jeff Hou and colleagues produced a report from their CELA (Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture) panel last year, “Decolonizing Landscape Architecture Education.”  You can find the reports here:  Part 1 and Part 2. Professor Lynne Manzo will be presenting at the CELA 2022 conference later this month…

Alumni Feature

Jocine Velasco (MLA ’21), Rhys Coffee (MLA ’23), and Ken Yocom are working closely with the Burke Museum, the UW Native American Advisory Board, UW Grounds and Maintenance, and the design firm GGN to study the health and viability of a camas meadow recently designed and installed at the Burke Museum on the UW campus. The collaboration is working to develop interpretive strategies to communicate the importance of this habitat type in the Cascade region for indigeneous communities while also seeking to understand how the…

Student Feature

Stephanie Roh (MLA ’22) Third-year MLA student, Stephanie Roh completed a Valle Scholarship in Scandinavia in Autumn 2021. Her project, “Space For Us: Designing Landscapes of Belonging for Immigrants in Copenhagen + Malmö” focuses on the role of public space in helping immigrants feel welcome in their new homes. Stephanie notes, “I decided to study this topic at the intersection of landscape architecture and immigration based on my growing passion for landscape justice issues as well as my previous experience as an exchange…

WIN ’22 Department JEDI Committee Updates

Spring Town Hall Meeting 1.14.22 Students from Denny International Middle School design interventions at Jack Block Park – more updates from UWASLA below. The Dept JEDI Committee is organizing a department-wide Town Hall event this April  to consider how to center JEDI work in Landscape Architecture. This will be an opportunity for all of us to come together as a community to discuss how to incorporate JEDI work into our field and consider how justice and equity relate to our…

Grounding the Green New Deal: A Summit on Design, Policy, and Advocacy

April 9, 12-5pm*  National Building Museum, 401 F St NW, Washington, DC *Doors open at 11am for pre-event exhibit and networking. There will be a post-summit reception until 7pm. More panelists confirmed! Hear from influential leaders working on issues of climate and equity: Bryan Lee Jr, Kate Orff, Colette Pichon Battle, Nikil Saval, Billy Fleming, Dana Bourland, Anne Whiston Spirn, and more. There is an essential role for the built environment disciplines to play in addressing the climate crisis and translating the…

UNDOCU WEEK

Undocu Week Leadership Without Borders March 7-11, 2022 | 5-7 PM Undocu Week is hosted by Leadership Without Borders (LWB) and consists of a series of weeklong events that provide knowledge, resources and more to the UW community and beyond! This is the week’s itinerary—all events will be from 5-7pm in the ECC Unity Suite! There will be fun prizes at select events that include Undocu Week swag, music, food and more! We welcome everyone to join us as immigration is an intersectional issue…

CALL for Applications: Drawing in Design Spring Workshop (due Friday 3/18)

DRAWING IN DESIGN WORKSHOP APRIL 22 – 24, 2022 Drawing offers a practice for thinking and an important mode of communicating ideas in design. Since 2016 the Department of Landscape Architecture, in collaboration with our professional partners, has convened a quarterly series of public lectures and weekend workshops for students that focus on representation in design. This quarter we will be led by Milenko Matanovic (https://www.milenko-art.com) We will draw to keep our minds, eyes, and hands coordinated. We will render the first…