Courses
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Landscape as Digital Media
The course will be an introduction to digital modeling and representational tools for designers. Through the course, students will gain knowledge of digital media and…
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Visualizing Landscape Dynamics / Dynamic Landscapes
Landscape modeling requires techniques for representing and manipulating essential landscape elements – landform, vegetation, water, infrastructure, animals, and atmosphere – and also landscape processes: movement,…
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Deleuze and Landscapes
This seminar will closely read French philosopher Gilles Deleuze\’s (1925-1995) writings for their potential to provoke new thinking of landscape design and description. Deleuze develops…
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Topographies: Cities, Landscape, and Architecture in the Formation of Cultural Ecology
A few basic premises make up the conceptual foundation for this course. One is that when topography is seen as both terrain and the trace…
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Adventure and Fantasy Simulation, 1871-2036: Seminar
Visual constituents of high adventure since the late Victorian era, emphasizing wandering woods, rogues, tomboys, women adventurers, faerie antecedents, halflings, crypto-cartography, Third-Path turning, martial arts,…
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The Poetics of Materials (episodes in the cultural history of modern making)
The Spectacle Factory examines the modern history of immersive theater, entertainment, and media spaces from the standpoint of the history of architecture and design. It…
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Material Ecologies Workshop
Landscapes are shaped by continuous flows of materials and energy driven by anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic forces. Within constructed landscape systems, materials range from living to…
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Advanced Topics: Earthworks
Note: this class will not meet on 1/25. Instead, the first course meeting will be on Wednesday, 1/27 from 6-9 PM in room 318.This seminar…
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Green Infrastructure in the Non-formal City
Today, there are one billion people living in squatter communities worldwide, a number expected to double by 2030. 50% of our total urban growth will…
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GeoWeb: Virtual Worlds as Public Infrastructure
This seminar/workshop examines the growing utility of the World Wide Web as a framework for organizing the world???s spatial knowledge. Three-dimensional virtual worlds such as…