Fantasy, Memory, & Longing: Robin Winogrond leads designers on a search for the poetic in banal landscapes
The strange and unexpected are disappearing from our towns and cities. In Europe and America…
Topic Ecology
Right to Grow: A Manifesto
by Kira Clingen (MLA I, MDes RR '21), Carson Fisk-Vittori (MLA I '20), Shira Grosman…
Fight or Flight? Designers and planners grapple with whether to fight the effects of climate change, or accept the inevitability of mass migration
To quote Margaret Atwood, climate change isn’t just about the climate, it’s…
Emptiful: Changing the paradigm in a post-oil landscape
by Aiysha Alsane (MLA I AP '19) Through common language, we describe the desert as…
Rhythm of the Torrent: Susie Ibarra’s sonic maps capture the texture, story, and architecture of a place in sound
Composer, percussionist, and sound artist Susie Ibarra is standing in the…
A Bodily Relationship with Territory: End. Words from the Margins mines the wildness and emptiness of New York City’s coastal edges
New York City is often regarded as the most densely designed, overdetermined real estate on…
Love in a Mist—or Devil in a Bush? How the politics of fertility relate to the subjugation of the natural world
In June 1648, a Puritan midwife named Margaret Jones was executed by hanging from an…
Climate change, transportation, urbanism: 2019 ASLA Student Award winners tackle pressing landscape issues
The American Society of Landscape Architects has honored six projects by nine Harvard University Graduate School of…
The Tropical Arboretum of Vegetal Dwelling: Fabled Treehouse Phylogenies
by Joshua Stevens (MLA '19) The institution of the arboretum emerged from a tradition of using…
Love in a Mist
Love in a Mist: The Politics of Fertility explores several evolving narratives on the spaces and politics of fertility, triggered by the “heartbeat bill,” which recently passed into law in states such as Mississippi, Kentucky, and Georgia to criminalize abortions from as early as six…