INVITING YOUR INNER CHILD OUT TO PLAY: CREATIVE INVITATIONS Have you ever wondered why it’s so easy for a child to pick up a paintbrush or a crayon and simply start to create without any fear or anxiety about the blank page ahead of them? How is it so easy for them to tap into their creative energy and begin to work, experiment, and create not only quickly but also joyfully? It is because drawing is one of a child’s…
Category: Student Experience
UWLA Students Awarded Top Pacific Horticulture Design Futurist Prize
by Chris Copeland (MLA 2025) In the summer of 2023, Pacific Horticulture held a design competition to support new planting ideas for Pioneer Park in San Francisco, CA. Working with an historic site like Coit Tower, which can attract up to one hundred and fifty thousand visitors per year, our team wanted to use this opportunity to draw attention to the historic ecosystems of California. These communities of plants and animals are iconic and beloved. However, in a changing and increasingly…
Exploring the Greenland Ice Sheet with the University of Washington
This Early Fall, seven of our CBE graduate students from UWLA and Urban Design and Planning joined the UW College of Environment group in Ilulissat, Greenland. Bringing students and researchers to Greenland gives them a real-time view from the forefront of the climate crisis. Check out this great post from the September 2023 Scan Design blog.
BLA Design-Build featured on the Arboretum Foundation Website
Our Woodland Creek Design Build is featured in this season’s Arboretum Foundation newsletter. The graduating class of BLAs did an amazing job renovating the former drainage pipe. To read more great details about the students’ work, check out this article from the Arboretum Foundation website.
Shantol Morgan (BLA 2025) awarded inaugural LAF Ignite Scholarship
We are thrilled to announce Shantol Morgan, BLA 2025, is a recipient of the LAF Ignite Scholarship, joining an inaugural cohort of four students. Congratulations, Shantol!
Sherry Xu (MLA ’22) in Kubota Garden Foundation Newsletter
Meet Sherry Xu When I first entered Kubota Garden, I was struck by its unique and traditional Japanese landscape features. I wanted to know more about how such a beautiful Japanese garden was designed, built, developed, and maintained, so I decided to volunteer with the Kubota Garden Foundation. To learn more about Kubota Garden, I decided to participate in the “Tuesdays in the Garden” events first. During the weekly mulching and weeding activities, I was fortunate to meet many volunteers…
WASLA: ASLA 2022 National Conference Stipend Recipients
Congratulations to the 2022 ASLA National Conference Stipend recipients, Kove Janeski and Natalie Weiss (both MLA ’24), and Emerging Professionals Rebecca Bachman and Lauren Iversen (both MLA ’20). Thanks to the generous support of our local ASLA – Washington Chapter, our students were able to attend this year’s ASLA Conference in San Francisco.
Eve Wang (BLA ’24) featured in UW Farm Weekly Newsletter
Around The Farm By Yixuan Wang (Eve), UW Farm AST Intern, College of Built Environments, majoring in Landscape Architecture How can landscape architects foster better urban farming communities? As a landscape architecture student, I have a different perspective of the farm. Looking at farming through the lens of architecture and designing spaces, I see an opportunity for more farms to be integrated into urban spaces. As climate change continues to affect every aspect of our lives, we must think about…
Kove Janeski (MLA ’24) featured in UW Farm Weekly Newsletter
Around The Farm By Kove Janeski, UW Farm Student Staff – Organic Farming and Operations Lead It’s Winter Squash Season! The UW Farm is constantly seeking out rare, culturally significant crop varieties that may be adaptable to our pacific northwest climate. This season, one of those crops was the Seminole pumpkin. Being native to Florida, this squash does well in hot and humid climates. This variety is also naturally resistant to insects, pests, and powdery mildew. At the UW Farm we noticed this…
Emily Saeger featured in Freeway Park Newsletter
Freeway Park In Profile The Faces of our Community Courtesy of Freeway Park Association Newsletter Name: Emily Adelia Saeger Occupation/s: Graduate student – Master’s of Landscape Architecture ‘23 @ UW & Botanical Artist What brings you to the Park? Freeway Park is a unique urban park design – it spans a major freeway, connecting two severed halves of downtown Seattle, yet still offers lush well established shrubs and trees, plus the iconic Lawerence Halprin fountains, which I hope to see full of…