Category: Event

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.

Thu 11/21 | UW//LA  Autumn Departmental Lecture Steven Handel, Rutgers University Dreams and Nightmares of Urban Restoration Ecology 6:30pm | Arch Hall 147   Learning Objective: Learn ecological constraints and opportunities for restoring ecological function to urban degraded lands. This lecture will offer one (1) Professional Development Hour (PDH). Please register here if you wish to receive credit.   Abstract: Small patches of native habitat in urban and suburban areas can supply ecological services, public amenities that are sustainable with…

Wed 11/13 | CBE ScanDesign Lecture Bianca M. Hermansen, CITITEK, Copenhagen: Performative Urban Form 6:00pm | Arch Hall 147 Bianca M. Hermansen is an architect MAA, Urban Designer and Ph.D researcher at the Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture. She is also founder and CEO of CITITEK, a research based consultancy. In addition she is a consultant at Gehl Architects and Copenhagenize Design. Lecture co-sponsored by the Scan|Design Foundation, CBE, UW Department of Landscape Architecture & UW Department…

  Bring your tea mugs!     Wed 11/6 | UW//LA  Professional TeaTalk Series Isami Kinoshita, Chiba University – Post-Disaster Rebuilding: Children’s Lost Landscape after 3.11 4:30-5:30pm | Gould 322 After 3.11, the children and youth of Minami Sanriku town lost not only the landscape of their homes and neighborhoods, but also their outdoor spaces for play. Their sense of loss was serious, but some of them were encouraged to do positive by taking part in the recovery process. This presentation…

  Join us for the first TeaTalk of the academic year!     Wed 10/16 | UW//LA  Professional TeaTalk Series Nicolas Morin, Barker LA – Community-Based Design:  Barton St. P-Patch and more 4:30-5:30pm | Gould 322 For Nicolas Morin, one of the joys of practicing landscape architecture is the opportunity to collaborate with communities. Whether a parklet, pocket park, or p-patch, the process is unpredictable, rich with unusual challenges, pushes creative problem solving, and is a wonderful way to connect with…

Imagination by Participation James Rojas, founder of Place It! & Latino Urban Forum Date: Monday, September 30, 2013 Time: 12 to 1pm Place: Gould 440 James Rojas holds an MA in City Planning and an MS in Architecture Studies from MIT. He works as a city and transportation planner, and is the founder of the Latino Urban Forum, a non-profit dedicated to increasing awareness of planning and design issues facing low-income Latinos. He is a contributing author for Insurgent Public…

The UW Runstad Affiliate Fellows present: Place Capital: A Live Documentary Film About Cities October 3rd, 6:30pm From travels to Berlin, Krakow, Fukushima and Detroit, this year’s Runstad Affiliate Fellows featuring our very own Ken Yocom as they present a live documentary film about the changing nature of cities. From centers of trade to nodes of information and culture, the Fellows share stories about cities that have experienced destruction and renewal. What makes places resilient? How will the sharing economy…