An Island in Flux: Envisioning a more resilient Nantucket
Nantucket offers a vivid illustration of the principle of flux, the idea that everything is…
Topic Ecology
Reclaiming Asian-American Garden History: Yoni Angelo Carnice researches the work and legacy of Demetrio Braceros at San Francisco’s Cayuga Playground
When Yoni Angelo Carnice (MLA ’20) first visited Cayuga Playground in San Francisco, he was…
GSD experts on a major barrier to climate crisis mitigation: “The majority of Americans have little experience with the land and its rhythms”
If Earth’s biosphere is in crisis, it is a peculiar sort of crisis. To human…
Tar Creek Remade: Taking on 120 years of environmental injustice at an Oklahoma Superfund site
Envision a broad expanse of barren gray mounds riven with erosion channels. Pools of viridian,…
2021 Design Studies Thesis Prize: Juan David Grisales’ “From Humboldt to Caldas: Environmental Liberations through Tropical Altitudes”
by Juan David Grisales (MDes / MLA I AP '21) — Recipient of the Design…
2021 Thesis Prize in Landscape Architecture: Joanne Li’s “Ovis Versatilis: Icelandic Sheep Farm as Land Art Museum and Evolution Lab”
by Joanne Li (MLA '21) — Recipient of the Thesis Prize in Landscape Architecture…
2021 Thesis Prize in Landscape Architecture: Gracie Villa’s “City | Forest: Reordering Plant-Human Relationships Toward Healthy Cities”
by Gracie Villa (MLA I '21) — Recipient of the Thesis Prize in Landscape Architecture…
Landscapes of the Void: Speculative design for tunnels, mines, cemeteries and other underground spaces
At once welcoming and foreboding, the underground realm has long captured our attention. When considered…
Highlands’ Harvest
by Alysoun Wright (MUP/ MLA I AP ’21) The Lower Highlands neighborhood of Lowell,…
Can Parkitecture Heal? Jeanne Gang on making American National Parks “more accessible, more inviting, and more welcoming”
Early federal policies that set aside land for the national parks focused mainly on the…