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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.

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…

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.    

The recent lecture by Dr. Kongjian Yu is now up on the BE Vimeo page. Take a look

Mon 2/24 | UW//LA  Winter Departmental Lecture Kongjian Yu, Turenscape Designed Ecologies and the Creation of Deep Form 6:00 pm | Arch 147 This lecture will offer one (1) Professional Development Hour (PDH).  Please register here if you wish to receive credit. Abstract: Known as China’s Olmsted by many, and a “Force of Nature” by Time Magazine, Kongjian Yu and his office Turenscape are the foremost landscape architecture firm in China today. The vast scale of China and its apparently boundless growth…

Thu 2/20 | UW//LA  Winter Departmental Lecture Christine Gaspar, Center for Urban Pedagogy Designing for Democracy Seattle Central Public Library – Microsoft Auditorium 5:30 pm – Seattle 2035 Open House 6:30 pm – Designing for Democracy: The Center for Urban Pedagogy Lecture / Q+A 8:30 pm – End of Program   Learning Objective: Learn how New York’s Center for Urban Pedagogy uses art and design to improve public engagement in shaping the built environment.  This lecture will offer one (1)…

Don’t forget your tea mugs!     Wed 02/19 <– NEW DATE ! | UW//LA  Professional TeaTalk Series Deb Guenther, Mithun – Integrated Design for a Resilient Future 4:30-5:30pm | Gould 322 Deb’s bio can be found here:  http://mithun.com/about/leadership/debra_guenther/a/  

  Ah-Yeon Kim is both an academic and practicing landscape architect who leads a design network, STUDIOS terra. She is a coordinator for the International Workshop on Urban Landscape,a collaborative and multidisciplinary student workshop. Her works range from art installations, gardens, parks and a community design for a village in the civilian control area near the demilitarized zone in Korea. Working between the realms of practice and education, she strives to reveal the inherent poetry of landscapes over time.

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Bring your tea mugs!     Wed 01/15 | UW//LA  Professional TeaTalk Series Guy Michaelsen, Berger Partnership – Current Fixations 4:30-5:30pm | Gould 322 Guy will share several recent projects that reflect his current design passions that include celebrating The un-natural nature of urban ecology,  embracing principals of art in design of the public realm and the power of experiential opportunities created by embracing ephemeral interventions.