Slide Kelly

Slide is a Teaching Associate in Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He instructs GIS and digital design media within the landscape core studio curriculum, and a Research Associate investigating the role of landscape architecture in national agroforestry practices with Amy Whitesides – in affiliation with the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability and the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF).

He is a designer, researcher, and technologist working at the intersection of landscape architecture and environmental planning, concerned with anticipatory spatial practices and design interventions confronting environmental risk. Slide has contributed research on coastal scenario planning at Harvard’s Office for Urbanization and urban- and site-design to live alongside periodic wildfire at SWA Group. His personal work is interested in planted forests and social priorities of species conservation within the remediation of compromised U.S. public lands.

Slide holds a Master of Landscape Architecture and Master of Design Studies in Risk and Resilience from the GSD, and a BA in Architectural Studies from Tufts University. He was the 2024 winner of the Thesis Prize in Landscape Architecture for Reforesting Fort Ord, and a co-founder of the GSD’s Landscape Technology Forum. Prior to design, Slide served as the GIS Program Manager for the Continental Divide Trail Coalition, where supported the potential for landscape infrastructure to connect communities across the headwaters of the Rocky Mountains.