When Professor Stephen Sears talks about the Lost Coast, his words carry both awe and urgency. “We talk about nature and wilderness and the benefits of ecological systems all the time,” he says. “But the scale of wildlands has to be experienced firsthand to comprehend how small humans seem in comparison, and to understand the enormous footprint humans have made in those places.”
As cities and urban centers around the world continue to grow in population, the drive to design or redesign spaces to be more sustainable and multifunctional has become critical.
Now in its fifteenth year of programming, the Education Justice Project has evolved to establish a broad network of resources and initiatives to support their students, transforming the landscape of possibilities for formerly incarcerated people, with professor Rebecca Ginsburg at the helm.
Ana Valderrama (MLA ’09) and her collaborators at Matéricos Periféricos received the 2022 Inclusion Award from the New York City Architecture Biennial.
Alumnus and longtime friend and donor of the department Jim Martin hopes the scholarship will benefit students who have a strong interest and passion for the field of landscape design.
Construction on the FirstFollowers Learning Lab began in 2018 and is an ongoing project that uses design-build principles to teach carpentry, residential construction, and landscape skills to formerly incarcerated people in the Urbana-Champaign community.
Many people take water and water infrastructure for granted when it comes to urban development. But, in an era when many cities around the world are facing increasing disasters from climate change that cause severe flooding to drought year after year, it’s time to rethink relationships among land, water, and people.
The Department of Landscape Architecture is pleased to welcome Kelley Lemon back to campus as a new tenure-track assistant professor. As a new faculty member, Lemon’s research and teaching will address ecological/sustainable design, health and wellbeing, action research, and design technologies, with special focus on landscapes of the underserved.
