In 2019, Jeff Hou received a Global Innovation Fund Research Award to explore how youth are engaging in social action and creative space-making in East Asia. Hou used the funding to host a three-day online workshop with special guests from the U.S. and East Asia to explore and share knowledge on current social movements across East Asia that reflect a desire for alternatives to the current socio-economic and socio-cultural structures, from social startups and new communal spaces to alternative economic…
Category: Faculty Scholarship and Practice
Sketching the Housing Crisis
Professor Daniel Winterbottom discusses sketching as a form of activism and the role it plays in the field of landscape architecture. | Landscape Architecture Magazine
2022 CELA Awards
Congratulations to Dani Slowik (BLA ’22), Assistant Professor Catherine De Almeida, and Professor Daniel Winterbottom for receiving the following awards at the recent Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) 2022 conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Fountain Scholar Award Winner: Daniella Slowik Faculty Award for Excellence in Research and/or Creative Works, Junior Level: Catherine De Almeida Outstanding Educator: Daniel Winterbottom
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…
Professor Nancy Rottle Retires from the Department of Landscape Architecture
Nancy Rottle, a long-time professor of landscape architecture and the past Scan Design Foundation Endowed Chair, has retired after more than 20 years of teaching, research and service at the University of Washington. We are happy to see her step into the next stages of her life and work, though Nancy’s presence and meaningful contributions to the students, the program, and the profession will undoubtedly be missed. She has taught, supported, and mentored generations of students, many of whom continue…