Courses
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Public Space in the Informal City
This course seeks to open a discussion around the design and representation of public space in informal settlements, aiming to provide students with tools for…
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Drawing for Designers 2: Human Presence and Appearance in Natural and Built Environment
The course is intended as a creative drawing laboratory for designers, an expressive and playful supplement to computer-based labor. The aim of the class is…
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Place-Based Scenario Planning
The climate crisis is, in part, a communication crisis. How can we communicate the choices that communities will need to make to adapt to climate…
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Images of the Environment: Terror and Beauty
This project-based seminar will focus on producing “thick” descriptions of photographs of environmental crises in the recent decades. Those of interest include Edward Burtynsky’s series…
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Territorial Commons: Mapping Narratives in the Shifting Extractive Landscapes of the Antipodes
The relentless pursuit of economic growth has historically propelled an ever-expanding reliance on natural resources, shaping and altering cultures while transforming landscapes. This pursuit of…
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Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: Drawing Landscapes, Energy, and Matter
The structures and forms we perceive on the land are produced by forces that make order and those that upset it. Landscape architecture is one…
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Thinking Landscape-Making Cities – Designing Regenerative Futures
This design seminar challenges you to create regenerative concepts and strategies for a just, temperate, and regenerative urban future. You will design a new settlement…
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Making Participation Relevant to Design
By trying to understand how participation can make design more relevant to society, we can create more socially just cities. This course starts from the…
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Climate Positive Design Lab
As the climate and biodiversity crises escalate, our world faces unprecedented times. With the 1.5oC threshold quickly approaching and 75% of emissions coming from the…