Courses
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Wild Ways: The Nature of Wilderness, Wild-ness and Wild Being(s) in the Anthropocene
This seminar interrogates changing ideas of nature on an urbanizing planet under the intertwined crises of climate change (global heating) and biodiversity loss (extinction) –…
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African Landscape Architecture: Alternative Futures for the Field
A central aim of this seminar is to reveal the plurality of ways landscapes are shaped across the African continent and how they help mitigate…
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Natural Histories for Troubled Times, or, Revisiting the ‘Entangled Bank’
This seminar looks at our (troubled) times, its toxic landscapes and eco-unfriendly townscapes, through the lens of natural history. By “lens” we can think immediately…
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Fight or Flight: Space Colonization and the Future of Landscape Architecture
This seminar aims to examine the future of the profession of landscape architecture in relation to the two forces that are likely to shape it…
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Climate Justice
Recent discourse around climate change—including debates about the Anthropocene, Green New Deal legislation, the dire warnings of the IPCC, to name a few—increasingly make evident…
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Creating Environmental Markets
Robert Zimmerman, Lorena Bello Gómez
The Laredo Resilience Project There is a way out of the climate box we have created, though resistance to the necessary ecological transformation remains intense. …
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Untangling Climax Change
Departing from the book Climax Change! How Architecture Must Transform in the Age of Ecological Emergency, this seminar proposes to untie and explore the many…
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Plants and Placemaking – New Ecologies for a Rapidly Changing World
In the face of crises spanning pandemics, political turmoil, and the rapid degradation of the planet’s natural systems—all within a backdrop of myriad inequalities—the power…
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Discourse and Research Methods
This pro-seminar is a core requirement for successful completion of the Doctor of Design program. Primarily, it will focus on various thematic areas that range…
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Discourse and Methods II
Antoine Picon, Divya Subramanian
The objective of the seminar is to examine and discuss in depth some of the main methodological issues that students enrolled in the PhD program…