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About the Author Michael Ezban, RA, is a landscape designer, registered architect, and educator. Michael is the 2014 Maeder-York Family Fellow in Landscape Studies at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts. His writing and speculative landscape works explore synergy between food systems and waste landscapes and have been published in various journals and books including Places, Landscape Architecture Frontiers, The History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, Scenarios Journal, Projective Ecologies, and the forthcoming Third Coast Atlas. Michael’s work has also been featured in national and international exhibitions, including the 2014 Rotterdam International Architecture Biennale. Michael holds a Master in Landscape Architecture with distinction from Harvard University, where he received the 2013 Charles Eliot Traveling Fellowship, the department of Landscape Architecture’s highest honor. He also holds a Master of Architecture with distinction from the University of Michigan, and a BS in Architecture from the University of Virginia. Michael is a founder and principal at Vandergoot Ezban Studio, a research and design practice that engages landscape architecture, building design, and urbanism. He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in Landscape Architecture at Virginia Tech, and he has also taught design at the University of Maryland, University of Michigan, and the Corcoran College of Art + Design. www.vandergootezbanstudio.com