Channel Park

In collaboration with Chris Leberect and Jenny Preuss

Charlestown Autoport, Boston, MA Charlestown Studio

Instructor : Yao Xiao and Robert Ganser Fall 2022

The intent of this project is to increase resilience of Charlestown’s northeast end through a managed retreat approach on the land most vulnerable to sea level rise. The managed retreat effort will create a restored salt marsh park on the Autoport using methods inspired by Boston’s ecological and geologic past. Housing and co-industrial redevelopment will be sited on more resilient ground and protected from or adapted to future flooding events. In the process, gathering and recreational spaces will be created for the public, reconnecting the Charlestown neighborhood to the waterfront and coastal ecology it has long been without.

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Park, Minneapolis, MN

Ecology Studio

Instructor: Vince DeBritto and Joe Favour

Spring 2022

This project addressed the changing programmatic needs of Brackett Park and the lack of variation within the parks in the surrounding neighborhood. By dramatically reforesting the north side of the park, and creating a pleached orchard, an aspen grove and clearing, the character of the park becomes distinctly unique.

Tutorial: Pruning fruit trees

Festival of Blooms: Daylong celebration of spring including live music and community public art creation

Tutorial: Planting for pollinators and their impacts on productive landscapes

Cherry Jubilee: Midsommer celebration and kickoff to the harvest season

Tutorial: Canning, preserving, and reducing food waste

Tutorial: Apple and Pear Cider Pressing

Fall Fest: Community festival with apple picking and baking and live music

Program in the space is dependent on seasonality within the orchard, and structured gatherings are built around the growing schedule of the different trees.

Speculative Futures builds on the significance of pranking and other not strictly academic activities at the field station throughout the years. This piece imagines an Itasca Biological Station divorced from its academic intentions.

“That year, Becky Goldburg and her cabinmates dubbed themselves The Wenches and made sport of abusing men ...they kept a pink lawn flamingo in front of their cabin” (Itasca at 90: a History in Memories).

Imagined Histories of Itasca uses the language of lawn flamingos--a staple of Itasca prank history--to highlight gender disparities at the field station.