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FROM THE DEPARTMENT HEAD: THE ENGAGED MLA The Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Minnesota is in the College of Design—one of the most comprehensive and engaged design colleges in the country. Our focus is to design sustainable, collaborative, and artful solutions to the complex challenges of the 21st century. Our master of landscape architecture (MLA) program expands landscape architecture into an activist practice to create innovative approaches to the pressing issues of our time.

Change defines our landscape—drought and flood, freeze and thaw, population explosions and declines, economic booms and crashes. As designers and managers of change, landscape architects shape more resilient futures by designing new places and systems that integrate art, ecology, and community.

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This collection of student work shows the breadth and depth of our studio sequence. Over the course of five design studios, students explore sites from the local to the international on increasingly larger scales and apply new technical skills and knowledge to their design solutions. In their second year of study, students have the option of studying abroad in our Cities on Water program that addresses issues of global climate change in the Netherlands and Venice. In the final capstone studio, students pursue independent design projects, driven by their values and passion.

Faculty bring their research into the collaborative studio environment to deepen studio work, to engage students in a broad range of landscape research inquiry, and to share their own vision of how landscape architectural practice can change the world for the better. They ask compelling

and relevant questions like how can cities and towns plan for increasing floods and droughts? What can be made of open pit mines and piles of spoils when the extraction is over? How can temporary art installations spur ongoing community building? What does big data have to do with making livable neighborhoods?

Our students learn as much outside the classroom as inside the classroom and take advantage of our location in a vital design-rich urban region. They work as research assistants in practice in Twin Cities agencies, firms, and nonprofits like the Trust for Public Land, or as interns in firms like Oslund Associates, Thomas Leder Studios, Coen Partners, and HGA. Our students also lead design initiatives of their own making, such as Students for Design Activism and Greenlight, or in professional organizations like the student chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

Our college also has one of the largest student-practitioner mentoring programs of any North American design school, which underscores the strong ties between the college and talented local practitioners—many of whom teach as adjunct faculty.

We invite you to visit our program and we look forward to hearing about the kind of change you want to make in the world.

Sincerely, Kristine F. Miller Professor Department Head

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SETTING AND CONTEXT

In Minneapolis The University of Minnesota’s graduate program in landscape architecture takes advantage of its Twin Cities setting to provide high quality student-focused education within a vibrant and diverse urban environment. Because the University is one of the country’s only land-grant institutions in a large metropolitan region, our students and faculty can take an active role in imagining and building more sustainable, equitable, and artful places.

More than 100 years ago, the visionary landscape architect H. W. S. Cleveland created the Minneapolis-St. Paul park system—known today as one of the biggest and best urban park systems in the world, with the Mississippi River as its centerpiece.

Today the Twin Cities are known for design innovation. Our students have access to a wealth of area firms, nonprofits, and government agencies for internships, mentoring, and collaboration. Our students are active in the art and design scene, too. In the summer of 2012 they co-led a course on food and the city at the Walker Art Center and in 2013 installed “Lower Course,” a site specific art and sound exhibit at the Northern Spark Art Festival.

The Twin Cities consistently rank among the top 10 most livable regions with the biggest and best used bike network and nationally and internationally known cultural resources including the Walker Art Center, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Guthrie Theater, and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, as well as a vibrant local art, theater, and music scene.

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And Around the World Students also travel every semester—either through studio field trips or for study abroad. Studios have traveled to Seattle, Portland, New York, Duluth, Toronto, and Chicago, and our foreign studies program, Cities on Water, takes students to the Netherlands and Italy. The MSP Airport is a 30-minute, light rail trip away from campus with flights facilitating travel within the United States and abroad.

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PROGRAM OF STUDY The master of landscape architecture (MLA) is a first professional degree required for students who wish to become licensed landscape architects. The program introduces students to the practice and discipline of landscape architecture, providing them with the artistic, technical, cognitive, and communication skills, as well as the scientific and aesthetic knowledge, necessary to practice in the profession and in other environmental fields. Course work for the MLA degree exposes students to the broad field of landscape architecture as both a discipline and a profession. Classes are collaborative in nature and challenge students to delve into landscape issues that cut across multiple systems and scales.

Our curriculum integrates across subjects. For instance, a student will learn about issues of water and landform in the technology sequence, or how to combine hand and computer drawing in their representation course, and immediately apply that information in the studio that same semester.

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STUDIO WORKS

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Cities on Water Cities on Water is a spring semester study abroad option.

The program includes five weeks of preparation time in Minneapolis, five weeks of study in the Netherlands, and five weeks of study in Istanbul, Turkey. The program focuses on issues around water, including infrastructure, sustainability and resiliency, cultural response and adaptation, urban planning, urban morphology, and ecology.

In each location, students will study unique responses to water-based issues and investigate how these inform the built environment. Students study the issues and relationships as design informants, and then apply them through project designs in real places. Critics in both the Netherlands and Turkey provide the students with background and expertise in a number of areas, including ecology, hydrology, urban design, and water management.

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For the past two years, students have been working in the Netherlands to design 10,000 hectares of new land in the Markermeer, a fresh-water lake created by the completion of the North Sea Afsluitdijk (Closure Dike) in 1932, and the Houtribdijk in 1976. Students were asked to create islands from the lake silt that is degrading the aquatic and avian ecology of the Markermeer. The new islands will form the underwater structure necessary to improve the water quality of the Markermeer and also provide avian and aquatic habitat and human recreation. The students work has been featured in the Dutch media and has been used by the project client, the Natuurmonumenten, to model engineering and programming as the project moves toward realization.

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LA 5201 Making Landscape Spaces and Types This beginning studio introduces the basic principles of design, creative design processes, and the means of examining and reflecting on landscape in a variety of ways.

The course sequence builds with each design project, exposing students to the concepts and means of structuring landscape architectural space. It also facilitates the development of a personal vision and design methodology. Students learn to tie analytical thought to personal insight. Using design projects, site visits, readings, and presentations, students explore the physical and evocative properties of landscape architectural design and how it is recorded and communicated.

Students begin by making a series of conceptual models to learn how to shape spaces to create specific landscape experiences. They draw inspiration from key theoretical readings, like Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, and rework their designs based on invidivdualized feedback from their instructors and guest critics. Next, students build their knowledge of landscape architecture by creating hand and digital analysis drawings of iconic designs. Next, students apply what they have learned in “real-world” settings and transform a major city parkway into a new neighborhood resource, and an industrial urban waterfront site into a new set of public spaces that link the city, the river, and the University of Minnesota campus.

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LA 5203 Ecological Dimensions of Space Making This studio explores issues, concepts, and design techniques critical to understanding multifunctional landscapes.

Ranging across multiple scales, students seek to understand ways in which design can augment social and ecological performance through understanding a site’s historic and existing context, as well as thinking speculatively about its future. The studio is process-driven and iterative, using multifaceted and layered methods of seeing, recording, and analyzing sites over multiple and overlapping time frames and scales. The projects explore the design and function of landscape spaces from the medium site to small regions (neighborhoods, cities, townships), focusing on how the existing ecological systems of a site inform the spatial, aesthetic, and functional qualities of a designed landscape.

The first project explores precedent examples, exposing students to a broad range of ecologically focused work.

The second project builds on these examples by asking students to re-imagine the organization of the University of Minnesota’s Itasca Biological Field Station site, through the lens of ecology and sustainability. Next students created recreational access systems and plant restoration strategies along an urban reach of Minnehaha Creek, located west of Minneapolis.

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In the final project students explore the Minnesota River Valley just south of the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Each student choo``ses their own location to explore their interests and passions, conducts a careful ecological analysis, and creates a new vision for this urban wild landscape.

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1. CANOPY WALK: OVERLOOK 2. CANOPY WALK: DINING WING 3. CRUSHED STONE PATH TO DINING HALL & HIGH TUNNEL GROW HOUSES 4. CANOPY WALK: RECREATION WING 5. LODGING & EXISTING BATH HOUSE 6. CIRCULATION CENTER 7. CANOPY WALK CONNECTION PLANE 8.FOREST REVEGETATION 9. LAKE ITASCA 10. CANOPY WALK: WILD RICE WING 11.CRUSHED STONE PATH TO LABS 12. ROOFTOP GARDENS (ABOVE) 13. RAIN GARDEN & EDIBLE LANDSCAPING 14. STONE PATH TO HUB & EDIBLE LANDSCAPE LAB 15. WATER COLLECTION CISTERNS

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Studio 8201 Everywhere Nowhere: Paradigm Change for the Lower Duwamish River, Seattle, WA This collaborative project explores a future model for landscape architectural practice. The model is in response to emerging issues of massive change in our rapidly changing, postindustrial world. These issues provided the sociocultural context to speculate alternative futures for a complex EPA Superfund site located along seven miles of the Duwamish River in the port of Seattle, WA. Working with a local non-profit organization and operating through the lens of paradigm change and design advocacy, the project team generated innovative and speculative design proposals that contemplate ecological resiliency, sea level and climate change, urban agriculture, environmental justice, carbon sequestration, bluegreen infrastructure, and superfund clean-up.

The future of the Duwamish Valley is in flux. This work proposes that experimentation and speculation can generate new identities for dwelling and settlement that exhibit sustainable spatial, infrastructure, and temporal responsiveness. These are not predictable, template, historically-driven models (i.e. the New Urbanism project), but are idiosyncratic, hybrid models that express context and retrofit—for future resiliency and prosperity—the existing investment in the valley with its municipal resources, commerce, and cultural patterns of place. In response, the following visions speculate on transformative planning and design strategies to retrofit the existing valley into a quality, healthy environment for dwelling, reinhabitation, rehabitation and reinvestment.

Each proposal embodies paradigmatic change through the selective reorganization of portions of the valley into a meaningful place for live, work and play that is environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable.

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LA 8205 Urban Form Options: Landscape Architecture Studio This studio is based on the idea that landscape architecture and urban design can build equitable, healthy, and sustainable communities by linking the social, human, and cultural assets of a community with the development of its physical and economic capital.

Urban design is a way of representing ideas and information, imagining futures, and transforming systems and places. Urban designers shape physical spaces, creating settings that produce aesthetic experiences for those who move through and occupy them. They reconfigure infrastructure systems that connect communities to resources.

They support public decision-making processes by creating methods for community engagement.

This studio is part of ReMix, a long-term, place-basedaward-winning community/University partnership between University of Minnesota and Juxtaposition Arts.

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munity organization in North Minneapolis. Since 2005, students, faculty, staff, and alumni from UMN’s Department of Landscape Architecture and College of Design, JXTA, and staff from the University’s Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA), have collaborated on teaching, research, design, and outreach projects. Each year ReMix students examine projects that are important to our community partners and share their ideas to increase community understanding of, involvement in, and impact on planning and design activities.

Students decide the scale and location of their final projects based on community goals and their own individual interests. North Minneapolis offers a broad range of possible projects at varying scales: parks and parkways on the Mississippi River, brownfields in the industrial areas, in-fill and streets in commercial shopping districts or residential areas, and vacant lots.

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LA 8206 Design Duluth: Landscape Architecture Studio Design Duluth is an interdisciplinary multi-year initiative that is organized loosely around Mayor Ness’s 90,000 by 2020 initiative, which calls for establishing economic and cultural conditions to attract 4,000 new residents to Duluth by 2020. Now entering its second year, Design Duluth works with Duluth public agencies, nonprofits, and private parties to develop responses to critical problems, including massive infrastructure development, climate change, public health issues, food security, and recreational development.

Last fall, with assistance from the mayor’s office, planning division, public works, port of Duluth, EPA, and numerous NGOs involved in recreational development, studio participants developed 16 projects that reimagined a resilient future for Duluth. This work was presented to residents of Duluth at Clyde Iron Works at an exhibition that was attended by over 100 people including Mayor Ness and the Duluth print and television media.

Design Duluth 2012 involved four College of Design faculty members; 36 graduate students in the MArch and MLA programs; 24 guest critics; 720 linear feet of Vellum; 60+ models; over $1,000 in cardboard, wax, plexiglass, cloth, and string; several dozen plotter-cartridges; at least two trips to Duluth and the Iron Range; and the active participation of over 30 Duluth based experts, locals, and professionals—including the EPA, Army Corps of Engineers, two local engineering firms, and one marine ecologist from New York via phone.

WATER QUALITY RETENTION BASIN Excavated pit backfilled with engineered media, topsoil, mulch, and vegetation.

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Shelter Allows access to various types of systems and networks Connection point for various modes of travel

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INFILTRATION a depression where water infiltrates into the soil and sediment is trapped

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Retail This could function to include expanded uses including heath clinics, or other needed services in Merrit creek area

ACCESS POINTS Gateway Allows access to various types of systems and networks Connection point for various modes of travel

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CAPSTONE STUDIO Eric Alward UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE FROM—MONMOUTH COLLEGE, ART Originally designed as a central park, Cleveland’s Public Square has served as a civic core since it was first introduced. The Square is listed on the Natural Register of Historic Places, as are many of the architectural elements that border the Square. This space has and will continue to be the heart of Cleveland due to its location. Over the years it has lost some of its purpose as vehicular circulation has taken over, and cross streets have become heavy with traffic, complicating access to the Square. How can we, as designers, approach the future of the Public Square?

Social design must be examined and applied to the failing space. Reconnecting the pedestrian spaces, reducing vehicular congestion, and creating a usable destination space will all be needed design moves. Looking at pedestrian circulation, program, and spatial relationships to roadways will encourage vitality in the Public Square.

Threading Progression happens in three stages and at three different design scales. Creating access will happen across the Public Square, the downtown system, and the metro park system proposal. Using green street design and existing parks, the downtown core can become a pedestrian loop. The metro portion involves a long-term phasing plan, incorporating design for additional paths and trails through the existing Emerald Necklace park system, which leads users into the heart of the city. In the Public Square, details are what will make this a successful space, and the downtown and metro design are what will connect users back to this important and historic space.

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CAPSTONE STUDIO Bill Brohman UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE FROM—UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES, MASTER OF URBAN REGIONAL PLANNING This dual landscape architecture and urban planning project looks at using techniques focused on the ecological design to redevelop a public housing development. The site being redeveloped is Yesler Terrace, the oldest public housing site in Seattle, WA. The opportunities that this redevelopment affords are plentiful, as there are only two current structures remaining on site. The focus of the design is on a spine in the center of the development that contains three important areas: a mixed-use apartment development, a large park space, and a connecting staircase to the retail district located just to the south. The design of the site is intended to create connections, both internal and external, deal with the topography on the site, and use components of ecosystem services in the creation of community space. The resulting design transforms a public housing development that is disconnected from itself and the surrounding neighborhood into a highly connected space that uses nature and its topography to create a mixed income and mixed use neighborhood that people will want to move to.

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CAPSTONE STUDIO Allyson Czechowicz UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE FROM—LUTHER COLLEGE, BIOLOGY I designed my Capstone experience to be conceptual and explorative in order to play on my strengths as a designer and to savor the Capstone’s academic experience as an opportunity rare in professional practice. Thus, I leveraged this project to critique landscape architecture’s general lack of imagination in integrating ecologies into our urban environment. To make this point, I explored the Lawrence Halprin-designed icon of Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis to prove that even in a culturally high stake, extremely urban site, an urban ecology could operate as an additional layer to the current Mall program.

While working through ideas for escorting an operative ecology into the Next Nicollet, I recognized that few tools were available to designers for integrating ecologies beyond the trite and short-lived street tree or seasonal planter. In response, I developed three vegetative typologies: swath, sanctuary, and punctuation. I then illustrated how these typologies, as the primary foundation of the envisioned urban ecology, could escort five new ecological programs into the Next Nicollet experience.

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CAPSTONE STUDIO Cole Dorius UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE FROM—UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN During the fall of 2012 I was part of a collaborative effort to engage the neighborhood around Cleveland Park in North Minneapolis. Our charge was to organize a series of park parties to bring the local community out and ask them for thoughts on what their park should look like. While talking to the Cleveland residents and people around Lowry Avenue, I found a passion that resonated throughout, a desire in wanting more for the community they were a part of, to have their voice heard and to help make their area of this city better.

The people I talked to were ready to roll up their sleeves and get after it! I also found in their voices a need for more.

A yearning for growing and exploring. To follow a passion that has been shoved to the back shelf because necessity comes first. This got me thinking – is there a way for landscape architecture to explore how creativity, empowerment, and autonomy can change the trajectory of a community? Can design, with the support of policy and the creative local community, be activated through landscape architecture to support revitalization in a fragmented part of the city?

And how do you encourage local talent and innovative energy to thrive within a landscape architecture design?

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CAPSTONE STUDIO Brendan Dougherty UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE FROM—HAMLINE UNIVERSITY, BIOLOGY This project addresses urban stormwater management practices within downtown Minneapolis. The goal of the project was to explore methods for using stormwater as a tool for a more sustainable development strategy surrounding the new Vikings stadium.

The overall design creates a connected set of stormwater bioswales, tree trenches, sand filters, cisterns, and a central stormwater wetland to create a more sustainable community. In this densely developed neighborhood, onsite treatment and storage of a 10-year rainfall event is nearly impossible. A district-level approach to treating and controlling a 10-year storm event was created. Stormwater facilities were integrated within current infrastructure and layered with social amenities to improve walkability, public transportation, livability, and ecological function in downtown Minneapolis.

Urban development, increased dependence on automobiles, climate variability, deteriorating infrastructure, and the impairment of natural ecosystems highlights the need for the transformation of conventional stormwater management practices. There is currently a wealth of knowledge around stormwater management but no system to combine them into one integrated structure. While designs may address a specific problem, they often miss a great opportunity to create a more holistic system that can serve multiple purposes. If communities are striving to be more ecologically sustainable and resilient through time, development must integrate environmental, economic, and societal factors. A performance-based model that provides concepts for pollution control, ecological restoration, enhancement of amenity value, and flood control will need to be addressed through design.

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CAPSTONE STUDIO Cort Eidem UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE FROM—GONZAGA UNIVERSITY, EXERCISE SCIENCE Cultivate Generate Activate seeks to devise a framework for residents in North Minneapolis to improve unrecognized public spaces through gardening in order to support a healthy, active corridor. The persistence of blighted communities within the urban fabric raises the question of whether there are better approaches than the traditional top-down solutions that cities often apply to reestablish stability. The project began as an investigation into the different ways in which we can affect change in North Minneapolis and thereby alter its urban fabric. But an urban fabric can become a complicated phrase, especially if it reaches beyond the material textures of a place and into the human, psychological, and more social context of place. West Broadway Avenue has always been much more than a business corridor of asphalt, brick, and concrete. This arterial street represents the lifeblood and the soul of North Minneapolis.

One of the goals of the project is to create a local, urban gardening model with the intention of building the health, wealth, community, and capacity of North Minneapolis residents. Gardens alone will not resolve decades of disinvestment along West Broadway, but they could begin to activate underutilized spaces by creating a local, community-based food norm that fosters this continuous connection to food.

A garden features prominently along West Broadway and becomes an anchor and foundation for other interventions.

It will serve as a renewing gateway for partnerships with local businesses. The end outcome is not only expanded access to health food options, but also the creation of new public spaces and business development through interactive community design.

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CAPSTONE STUDIO Han Zhang UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE FROM—TONGJI UNIVERSITY, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE This Capstone project envisions a new urban river paradigm through a research- and analysis-based site plan.

The project summarizes the existing urban river paradigm and its issues on St. Paul’s westside river valley. It then proposes a new paradigm and approach strategies through changing scale in both planning and design.

The new paradigm highlights a water-centric urban future by providing a comprehensive, flexible water system that will rejuvenate urban river floodplain hydro-social space and drive urban development.

Rejuvenating urban river floodplain hydro-social space is one of the main goals of the new urban river paradigm.

This hydro-social space reestablishes the natural connection between people and water by designing for hydrologic changes, ecological habitat, and new public spaces.

There is a close relationship between the river and urban development. Rivers or water bodies in general bring huge benefits to a city. The river is a potential clean water resource as well as an important transportation corridor that directly links to econoic value and city growth. Other recreation values have also become more noticeable. The abundant natural resources in floodplain areas also provide an ideal settlement environment for people. Regardless of whether the river is natural or artificial, the urban river relationship is an important factor in urban development.

The urban river management paradigm directly influences urban development and, through a series of connections, has tremendous impact on economic, ecological, and social systems.

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CAPSTONE STUDIO Forrest Hardy UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE FROM—AUBURN UNIVERSITY, HORTICULTURE BIKE MPLS CBD addresses how to substantially convert transportation mode share from driving to cycling in the central business district of Minneapolis. This project encourages novice transportation cyclists through specific infrastructure investments and by providing end of trip accommodations in an iconic bike parking facility. As urban bike trends continue to rise and receive stronger political support, there is also a great opportunity to incorporate linear stormwater remediation systems into new bike infrastructure projects Biking as a method of transportation has broad spatial and social implications for our cities. The active rider requires slightly more space on the street than the human body itself, and 10 bikes can comfortably fit into a single parking stall. Urban cyclists are acutely aware of their surroundings, a trait that is lost in the sensory-insulating capsule of an automobile. Also, street-level retail owners have begun to merit the serendipitous purchases of cyclists, who stop on a whim and park right in front of their shop. Moreover, biking is an environmentally conscious decision for the large majority of urban cyclists. This is justified given the current global context of greenhouse gas emissions, raw material shortages, and impending peak oil.

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CAPSTONE STUDIO Elizabeth Hixson UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE FROM—VASSAR COLLEGE, HISTORY The Southeast Minneapolis Industrial Area (SEMI) and rail yard sits between the two Twin Cities campuses of the University of Minnesota. Many systems and intense development forces are at play here. An in-depth research and analysis process revealed that this site includes a few large landowners and many smaller parcels, a drained wetland, and a lasting legacy of pollution from previous industrial processes. How can and should this area change over the next century? Can we learn from the history of this place and create a plan to reuse, rewild, and reidentify instead of bowing to redevelopment pressures?

This proposal seeks to rewild the SEMI by remediating the polluted areas in situ, and returning the landscape to a wet prairie where bison roam. Rewilding is a theoretical idea in ecology about a controlled repopulation of large keystone species. Here, this theory would be tested by inserting a wild area into an urban pollution-laden environment. This posits questions about wildness and safety within a controlled human environment, and also questions the purpose of a park, restoration, and conservation. SEMI can be a new type of park where wild bison are allowed to roam, and where people can view them from a safe distance. By keeping the remaining grain silos on the site (to be used for remediation and viewing structures), the presence of industrial production is juxtaposed against the manufactured wildness..

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CAPSTONE STUDIO Kammeron Hughes UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE FROM—INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON, JOURNALISM Since the 1960s declining populations have rattled communities across the rust-belt. Entire community structures are changed by the shrinking of populations and changing of economic climates. Within shrinking communities, homes, and in extreme cases, entire blocks, can become abandoned. Abandonment of homes leads to a multitude of problems; fewer eyes on the street, built structures falling apart, dangerous untamed natural areas, community disconnection, fewer tax payers to support public works, schools, and other amenities, and expensive infrastructure traveling out to areas that are no longer in need. To limit the danger of decrepit buildings being left to rot, and possibly pose danger for people still residing in the neighborhoods affected, cities are spending billions of dollars to tear down foreclosed and abandoned homes. What is left are communities with an excess of open space and declining opportunities for human interaction.

This excess of open space that is created is my capstone canvas. I am exploring how uniting the built and natural environments can improve the sense of community and reduce edge effects on the southeast side of Cleveland, Ohio. This site has been dramatically cleared because of abandonment after shrinking populations and is in need of a renewed sense of place and a sense of community on multiple scales. The site will be reconnected through design to an intact community via human interaction scale, landscape scale, and economic scale.

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CAPSTONE STUDIO Jennifer Krava UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE FROM—WINONA STATE UNIVERSITY, RECREATION AND LEISURE STUDIES Various pieces of infrastructure singled out during the deconstruction of the Ford Assembly Plant in St. Paul remain in place on site and create ruins as a way to remember and enjoy what was once there. Materials deemed as usable during the deconstruction become other elements in the site’s program. The point is to retain the memory of a neighborhood cornerstone through existing site materials while creating a future that mimics the generative nature of the Ford plant. This can be done by exposing the elements underlying what the Ford plant stood for during operation and selectively deconstructing the pieces that contradict this. It becomes a way to edit the site to tell two stories: that of the past and that of the future.

In order to move a decommissioned Ford Assembly Plant from its historic functionality to a new future, we must first understand the materiality in which the landscape is made.

Materials are things that affect all of us, every day, and we don’t have to think about it. My project of “Reveal, Remember, Rewrite” stitches together the notions of recollection and materiality to create a human scaled experience within the landscape while utilizing the existing materials on the site. This idea of duration is a constant property of materiality. They can defy concepts of time; even as they drastically change, they continue to persist. Materials remind us that life is temporal. Connecting things that are familiar by using materials and physically transforming them, we can combine the past and the present to create the future.

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CAPSTONE STUDIO Jessica Lannoye UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE FROM—UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE, ARCHITECTURE The relationship between nature and culture continually evolves over time. Nature is a cultural construct that lies within people’s beliefs, values, and aesthetic experiences.

Currently there are many extremes within ideas about nature; what it is and what it can be.

Is it right for a conservationist to hold nature apart from human? Or for a deep ecologist to decide compromise is not an option in defending the environment?

This capstone project seeks to evaluate these differing ecoperspectives. Is there a balanced way to try to solve our problems and create a resilient future? Nature and culture are so intertwined they can no longer be considered disparate. We can no longer say humans don’t affect wilderness, and goals in management will continue to evolve. At this time, we can’t understand the full impact our actions or policies have on the environment. Why not try to start a spark for change at the first step in the process and gain perspective on our own views?

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CAPSTONE STUDIO Eric Maas UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE FROM—UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES, ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN The lengths individuals are willing to go to to save, create, and maintain their parks is truly remarkable. The connection between communities and their parks has long been important to me because of the relationships formed between a community and its green space.

I set out to find an underutilized space in an area that demonstrated a need for a community-focused park space, and discovered the Los Angeles State Historic Park. The site was once a railroad yard owned by Southern Pacific, which faded out in the 1970s. The 32-acre site was slated to become a warehouse development when the Trust for Public Land stepped in to purchase the site after an extensive community effort to save it as public park space.

The Trust for Public Land then sold it to the California State Parks Department due to the site’s cultural and historic value.

Today the site is open to the public; however, its programming is not suited to the needs of its local users. Its proximity to the Gold Line Light Rail and downtown Los Angeles has made it an ideal location to host music festivals that attract close to 20,000 people. These events use the entirety of the park, leaving no room for other users, and foot traffic has degraded the vegetation.

Issues of access exist for communities on both the northern and southern edges. Along the northern edge, the Gold Line Light Rail is located on a large ridge ranging from 32 to 40 feet high. This transforms what would be a half-mile trip to the park into a mile and a half trek using existing infrastructure. The southern edge is bordered by a large right-of-way. This, in addition to having light industrial development all along the adjacent roadway, limits access to the space.

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CAPSTONE STUDIO Mary Matze UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE FROM—HAMLINE UNIVERSITY, ENGLISH The Midtown Global Exchange in the historic Sears Building at the corner of Lake Street and Chicago Avenue is located in one of the most diverse areas of Minneapolis. The Midtown Exchange and nearby Sheraton Hotel represent a great legacy of community organizing and successful partnerships between business and government. The interior of the building provides a successful blend of housing, employment, shopping, and government services, representing a total revitalization of the formerly abandoned building.

Yet the surrounding public spaces do not match the vitality of the interior of the building. The Midtown Exchange remains physically separated from the surrounding neighborhoods by a sea of parking and automobile-related uses.

This typology is a remnant of its suburban, car-dominated past, and carries with it the isolation of suburban forms.

Like many urban areas, Minneapolis is working toward densification of their urban spaces, yet struggling with the challenges of ethnic and economic segregation, car-dominated culture, integrating storm water management into historic sites, providing dynamic public spaces for urban apartment dwellers, and meeting the needs of a multicultural society.

This capstone project aims to help the Midtown Exchange more fully realize the idea of “exchange” among the diverse users of the site and to balance exterior public space connections to the site’s activity centers. Site evaluation and design moves are informed by design theory that addresses social cohesion.

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CAPSTONE STUDIO Andrew Montgomery UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE FROM—UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES, ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN I am proposing a new kind of infrastructure that transforms Silver Lake, a potable drinking water reservoir, into an open space amenity that supports hydrological, civic, and ecological functions. Silver Lake Reservoir is a 97-acre site nestled between steep topography five miles due north of downtown Los Angeles. Built in 1905, the reservoir was the first to be fed by imported water. In 2008 the EPA mandated that all open water distribution reservoirs be retrofitted due to pollution damaging the quality of water. Silver Lake’s water supply is currently being bypassed, making it an appendix to the system, a mirage in the Los Angeles desert. This glorified 850-million-gallon bathtub is filled with potable water from hundreds of miles away, while polluted stormwater runoff flows into the ocean via Ballona Creek and the Los Angeles River.

The west has been dependent on the manipulation of water, capturing it behind dams, storing it, and rerouting it in concrete channels. Los Angeles built long-reaching infrastructures, effectively garden hoses, to natural and manmade reservoirs, where years of runoff are stored. Most cities are conveniently located on a major waterway for navigation and clean drinking water supply. Los Angeles has effectively constructed its own river. Over the last century Los Angeles has experienced boom and bust population spikes directly influenced by its water supply. With each sequential boom in population came a need to supply that population with water. We have engineered the city out of the desert. We have engineered ourselves out of dryness.

With climate variability on the horizon, this new prosperous California has become a fragile construction.

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CAPSTONE STUDIO Eric Olsen UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE FROM—UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES, ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN The coastal areas of the United States are some of the highest populated and most beloved places in the country, and U.S. coasts are home to some of the largest and more important cities in the entire world. Coastal areas are an extremely interesting interstitial membrane between larger landmass concentrations and the open ocean, and often act as the gateway between a certain place and the rest of the world.

However, living in a coastal area also comes with certain implications that living in areas further inland often does not. Water, the very aspect that makes them such incredible places to live, work, and visit, also comes with a unique set of challenges and risks. Everything from managing our impacts on water to dealing with the impacts it can have on us is constantly in play for coastal areas.

The intent of this project was to evaluate how life in coastal areas is unique, and to understand how that uniqueness should drive the way we think about living in these areas.

More specifically, the project set out with a goal to understand how the recent natural disaster of Hurricane Sandy along the East Coast might have proved as a wake up call for how we need to address the development of coastal areas in the future. The main goal of “Urban Water Margins” was to evaluate the impacts of Hurricane Sandy on the coastal areas of the United States, and to understand how the storm event may have brought about a change in the paradigm of how coastal areas approach the future of their communities.

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CAPSTONE STUDIO Jessica Paine UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE FROM—UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES, ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN My project seeks to disprove the idea that cemeteries reject progress and change., showing that a cemetery is a changing and ever evolving landscape. By using legacy and trajectory, looking to the future as well as the past for directives, we can bring the living back into the cemetery setting. The future of this landscape is uncertain, but through the utilization of new techniques and technologies, we can revitalize these landscapes of the dead, and once again bring life back to the cemetery.

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CAPSTONE STUDIO Bianca Paz UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE FROM—UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA, MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE/URBANISM My research focused on immigrant communities that have moved into the Twin Cities over the last 20 years and how these groups have integrated and participated in the city’s urban and natural environment. The distinct composition of these groups creates unforeseen and difficult variables that a city must address when creating public spaces. I suggest that a truly successful public space is one that not only serves the needs of current residents, but also one that can easily adapt to fit the needs of groups that will use the space years later.

This topic has typically been addressed by sociologists and urban planners and has presented a constant challenge in the planning process. It is often extremely difficult to go beyond simply obtaining a variety of opinions, some of which may be at odds, to effectively incorporate them into the creation of a project that satisfies multiple user groups. This challenge is increasingly complicated when dealing with different cultures that need to collaborate for one common goal in order for the project to work.

This capstone proposes an intervention approach and design model that use this community asset as the base to overcome those existing barriers and reconnect North Minneapolis with the Mississippi riverfront. The proposal also fits in with the city’s plans to transform the upper river industrial edge into a recreational and accessible area. This intervention pursues a strong cultural sustainability approach that is combined with spatial integration and environmental restoration.

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CAPSTONE STUDIO Nicole Peterson UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE FROM—ST. OLAF COLLEGE, ENGLISH/MEDIA STUDIES This project began as an exploration of people’s perception of sense of place, and how climate change would effect this perception. How, as the landscape changed at a rapid pace, would individuals comprehend this shift in landscape identity?

Through this experience I hypothesized that each person identifies on a deeper level with a place somewhere in this world. For many like myself, it is the area in which they grew up—landscape typologies that combine to form a whole, a home. For others this place is linked to a memory, a point in time, or a loved one.

Places have always changed, and our memory of cherished places is perpetually different from their present conditions. We remember the trees taller, the fields vaster, or the streams clearer than they exist at present. In the past this change has been somewhat subtle. Now, with the advent of climate change, these changes are happening more and more rapidly, within decades instead of generations. People are beginning to see their family homes, favorite destinations, and even the street on which they live transform under the pressure of a changing climate.

My intention was to research sense of place and its relationship to the landscape as it is being reconstructed by climate change. In combination with climate science, I then proposed that I would use these findings to develop a comprehensive framework to adapting landscapes to the impending climate shift, taking into consideration both the ecology of the site and the aesthetics of the new vs. old site habitat.

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CAPSTONE STUDIO Catherine Riley UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE FROM—RICHMOND, THE AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY IN LONDON, ART, DESIGN, AND MEDIA How can value be added to water’s manmade systems if it is showcased or made into an experience? Can this increase its value to humans, unite a community, and increase ecological function and biodiversity in an urban environment?

Water Scarcity

Green Water Scarcity

How can water be used as a tool to communicate sustainability and promote a connection to nature?

Demand

How can design be used to give a voice to problems and events happening in our world?

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This design uses visible systems that allow a dialogue to form between our wastewater systems and landscape.

The landscape becomes an educational experience in which the user becomes an active participant. The design amplifies the working landscape by incorporating the use into the wastewater system and allowing the system to become more tangible, resilient, and robust.

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This diagram illustrates the land use of the area.

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Fish kills are an effect of low levels of dissolved oxygen. The depletion of dissolved oxygen is harmful to aquatic life.

Decaying plants, such as this dead tree, contribute to the TSS measurment of a body of water.

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A lab in Ann Arbor Michigan has discovered a new way to detect nanoparticles of mercury in water.

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CAPSTONE STUDIO Michael Schumann UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE FROM—UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES, ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN Industrial brownfields are scattered throughout the country and are a common characteristic belonging to many major cities. Leftover results from shrinking cities and declining industry, these highly degraded sites are often perceived as blemishes in the landscape. For years these landscapes have been the symbol of contamination, environmental degradation, and barriers to connecting between cities and their riverfronts. Now, with greater impacts of climate change, the need for new urban growth, and a growing desire to improve the quality of life within cities, planners and policy makers have been paying a significant amount of attention to brownfield sites.

With increasing interest, the transformations of brownfield sites are continually being addressed to identify their most sustainable and efficient reuse. The general focus of policymaking and development efforts has been on redeveloping brownfield sites for industrial, commercial, or residential uses that focus on providing economic benefits. However, there has been a growing recognition that brownfields hold enormous potential for greening city environments, through the creation of parks, trails, greenways, and other open spaces (De Sousa, 2006). By reclaiming and giving them back to the public, brownfield sites offer an opportunity to breathe new life into the image and quality of cities. More importantly, they provide an opportunity for landscape ecology and design to be used as a tool to develop a harmonious connection among people, places, and the environment.

This project began with my combined interests in turning brownfields into green space, reconnecting cities to their riverfronts, and the significance of parks in designing healthier communities, which promote both ecosystem and human health.

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CAPSTONE STUDIO Anna Springer UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE FROM—UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STEVENS POINT, FORESTRY Since 2008 the populations of numerous small towns in western North Dakota and eastern Montana have been experiencing rates of rapid growth. The application of a new technology, hydraulic fracturing, is allowing for the extraction of oil and gas from geologic formations that were previously inaccessible. Towns like Dickinson, Williston, and Watford City have been and continue to be inundated with workers employed in the oil fields and their supportive industries. Reports from the area indicate that infrastructure and services cannot keep pace with demand. Roads are experiencing use well beyond what they were designed for, and a housing shortage has resulted in a 500 percent increase in the cost for shelter. Schools are struggling to accommodate the influx of students, and the service industry needs more labor (Oldham 2012).

In Williston, the local government has been told to expect an influx of anywhere from 12,000 to 50,000 people over the next five years, as the number of extraction wells rises from around 800 to 6,000. Local residents are rightfully concerned. The nature of their community is changing. They no longer feel comfortable leaving their doors unlocked (Oldham 2012). Their small town lifestyle is being disrupted, and many are calling for more regulation and better planning in the face of the boom. Williston experienced similar oil booms in the 1950s, and again in the 1980s. Each time, when the price of oil fell the industry largely left the area, taking its workers with it and leaving a legacy of vacated homes, schools, and unused infrastructure.

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CAPSTONE STUDIO Tianfang Wang UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE FROM—BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY, LANDSCAPE GARDENING My interest focuses on designing a waterfront industrial landscape and brownfield reclamation. As we move rapidly from industrial to service economies, our industrial landscape shifts in purpose. These landscapes, which are not reconfigured for other industries, are often repurposed as public amenities and waterfront development. Brownfields are a crucial issue in the United States. American industry has begun to decline in the past few decades, with more and more abandoned industrial sites left in cities. According to Alan Berger, using New York City as an example, manufacturing jobs fell from 1 million in the 1950s to about 200,000 in 2001. This caused social problems and left legacy problems, such as contamination, waste, and economic turmoil in urbanized areas and communities. The term brownfield originated in the early 1990s when researchers saw how emerging regulatory frameworks designed to protect the environment were, as a side effect, inhibiting the reuse, cleanup, and redevelopment of former industrial and commercial sites. By taking full advantage of existing infrastructure, brownfieIds take center stage in a sustainable planning strategy of thwarting sprawl, preserving open space, reducing greenhouse emissions, and reinvesting in urbanized areas and their communities. My initial premise is to use both ecological approaches and engineering techniques to reclaim and redevelop the brownfield site at Pigs Eye Lake. My vision is to turn the postindustrial site into a park.

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CAPSTONE STUDIO Matthew Traucht UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE FROM—UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO, ANTHROPOLOGY My capstone site—Newark Earthworks—provides space for a range of interpretive strategies that would both help ensure the protection of the ancient features and aid in present and future presentations of their complexity. To do this, the focus of my design Is not on the existing earthworks (which should be preserved as uncompromisingly as possible) but rather on the surrounding landscape as well as the interpretive framework used to inform the public about the culture that created and used these spaces.

commercial zone + hwy Exit residential encroachment golf course disturbs visitation trees obscure alignments clubhouse and maintenance barn residential encroachment medical complex

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In 2005, William Murtagh encouraged us to think of preservation as a creative action that utilizes the “raw material of circumstance” as its starting—but not ending­—point. This approach to my capstone will help me create a design that examines a traditional site with a contemporary sensitivity.

Moving from purely technical and protectionist strategies to those that promote transformative, design-oriented approaches, the following goals are acknowledged: ❙ Engage the visitor by considering multivariate time continuums rather than simply cataloguing the static monument to stationary moments in time and space;

Dark sky in residential Install prairie plants Open views for alignments Implement trail Remove Maintenance Barn Convert clubhouse for public use and workshop / housing

Phase One: 2014 Year round dark sky in commercial Parking + pedestrian bridge

❙ Acknowledge that site can be interpreted in many ways and that one’s own cultural background will influence one’s reading of a place;

Interpretive zone

❙ Reflect upon and react to the myriad time-stains that obscure, erase, or embellish a particular site’s legibility;

Artist residence + Workshop

Cultural center Prairie fully manifested Removal of clubhouse

Phase Two: 2024

❙ Endeavor to understand the connections to, modifications upon, and interpretations of, the landscape;

Year round dark sky in Newark Hotel re-structuring

❙ Question the normative modes of so-called objective viewpoints of history.

Tree management strategy spatial requirements Trees create enclosure Removal of medical complex

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Ohio Ceremonial Earthworks

Octagon Earthworks Portals

Prehistoric

Modern Fort Ancient Serpent Mound

Great Circle Gateway

Mound City Seip Earthworks High Banks Works Hopeton Earthworks Hopewell Mound Group

Newark Earthworks

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Perfect isosceles triangle from Geller Hill to Earthworks

Repetition of ceremonial geometries and measurements

trees obscure alignments

Alignment to eight different lunar extremes on 18.6 year cylcle

clubhouse and maintenance barn residential encroachment medical complex

Existing Concerns Dark sky in residential Install prairie plants Open views for alignments Implement trail Remove Maintenance Barn Convert clubhouse for public use and workshop / housing

Phase One: 2014 Year round dark sky in commercial Parking + pedestrian bridge Interpretive zone Cultural center Prairie fully manifested Removal of clubhouse Artist residence + Workshop

Phase Two: 2024 Year round dark sky in Newark Hotel re-structuring Tree management strategy spatial requirements Trees create enclosure Removal of medical complex

Phase Three: 2042

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CAPSTONE STUDIO Nissa Tupper UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE FROM—HAMLINE UNIVERSITY, COMMUNICATION STUDIES The topic of healthy cities is garnering a lot of attention— and for real reason. Over the last century, the leading cause of death in the United States has shifted from infection to chronic disease, in particular diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, and heart disease (Oka, 2011). In fact, by 2020 chronic diseases will account for three-fourths of all deaths worldwide (Word Health Organization, 2003).

While the issue has shifted, our approach has not. The current health care paradigm is rooted in an outdated response to control infectious diseases with an emphasis on health care delivery. Realities are calling for a shift toward health promotion and chromic disease prevention, focusing on the actual health determinates.

The issue becomes important for landscape architects when one of the major causes for this startling trend is revealed.

It’s all about behavior patterns, and how community environments shape them. Behavior patterns are rooted in an individual’s intention. In general, the stronger the intention to choose a behavior, the more likely the individual will follow through (Ajzen, 1991). While behavior is rooted in intention, it is further shaped by the collective environments that an individual is immersed in on a daily basis

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AWARDS+FELLOWSHIPS 2013–2014 In addition to teaching assistantships and research assistantships, many of our students receive merit-based departmental fellowships and external awards.

FELLOWSHIPS Ager Fellowship This gift was established by distinguished alumnus Xiaowei Ma (MLA 1998). Ma is the founding principal of Ager Group, an international multidisciplinary design firm offering integrated services in urban planning, landscape architecture, and architecture. This gift demonstrates Ma’s commitment to the department’s role in educating leading professionals by supporting outstanding graduate students for global practice.

2012 – Han Zhang 2011 – Ryan Herm

Steven Andrews Fellowship in Landscape Architecture This gift honors the memory of Steven Andrews, who received a master of landscape architecture degree in 2004.

The award is given to students who demonstrate academic achievement, design accomplishments, and, above all, leadership—especially leadership that demonstrates caring action—to peers, the department, or the community.

2012 – Michael Schumann, David Kerber, Alex Pratt 2011 – Michael Schumann

A. Dale Chapman Fellowship in Landscape Architecture The Chapman Forestry Foundation awards annual scholarships to students in the landscape architecture program.

The student must have been an active member of the student chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects the previous academic year. Financial need may also be considered.

2012 – Eric Maass, Jeff Olson, Stephanie Erwin, Nissa Tupper

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Clinton Hewitt contributed 30 remarkable years to the University of Minnesota as a professor and campus planner.

His leadership is celebrated through the establishment, by friends and colleagues, of the Clinton N. Hewitt Fellowship—an award given to students with exceptional potential in the field of landscape architecture.

2013—Amber Hill, Karen Criales-Escobar, Solange Guillaume, Jodi Rader, Sarah Hayosh

2011 – Prescott Morrill, Barrett Steenrod, Erica Shearer, Sarah Ash

The Edmund J. Phelps Memorial Fund Founders Fund Graduate Fellowship in Landscape Architecture The intent of the gift is to honor all founders of the Department of Landscape Architecture, including key volunteers and donors Herb Baldwin, Roger Clemence, and Roger Martin. The fellowship will be awarded annually to deserving students.

2012 – Andrew Montgomery, Coal Dorius, Jessica Lannoye 2011 – Seth Bossert, Mary Matze, Emily Stover

Girard K. Gray Fellowship in Architecture and Landscape Architecture This fund supports architecture and landscape architecture graduate students who demonstrate unique collaborative design leadership expertise in working with fellow students, faculty, the profession, or the public.

2012 – Cort Eidem 2011 – Ryan Herm

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Clinton N. Hewitt Prize

The Edmund J. Phelps Memorial Fund is dedicated to developing students who are capable of exploring the relationships of design, planning, and management to environmental quality and person-environment experiences; and creating and managing quality environments for human use and enjoyment. The fund aids students in the pursuit of graduate education in landscape architecture.

2012 – Amber Hill, Anna Hovland-Springer 2011 – Tiffani Navratil, Brit Salmela, Emily Lowery

The Jo Tushie Endowed Fellowship in Landscape Architecture This gift honors the memory of Jo Tushie, whose work with the firm Tushie Montgomery exemplified her belief that “imagination is more important than knowledge.”

AWARDS Women in Landscape Architecture-MN Student Leadership Award 2013 - Ally Czechowicz 2012 – Anna Lawrence Bierbrauer and Emily Lowry

2012 – Elissa Brown, Erin Garnaas-Holmes, Han Zhang 2011 – Anna Lawrence, Anna Hovland, Sandra Meulners, Kristen Murrray

Westwood-Kopischke Graduate Fellowship in Landscape Architecture The Kopischke-Westwood Graduate Fellowship in Landscape Architecture would like to honor the memory of University of Minnesota landscape architecture alumnus and Westwood principal Greg Kopischke, who earned bachelor’s degrees in landscape architecture and environmental design from the University of Minnesota. The fellowship assists deserving graduate students in the landscape architecture program.

2012 – Elizabeth Hixson, Michael Richardson

American Society of Landscape Architecture Student Awards Han Zhang and Elizabeth Hixson, 2013 ASLA Honor Awards Matthew Traucht and Coal Dorius, 2013 ASLA Merit Awards

University of Minnesota Landscape Architecture 2013 Capstone Awards Eric Olsen, Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn, New York Andrew Montgomery, Silver Lake Reservoir, Los Angeles, California

2013 University of Minnesota Landscape Architecture Graduate Team Award Jen Krava and Nissa Tupper

2011 – Xiaoxiao Lu 2013 University of Minnesota Olmsted Scholar Liz Hixson 2013 Garden Club of Virginia William D. Reiley Fellowship Matthew Traucht

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FACULTY

Professor Kristine Miller Department Head BA, University of Toronto, Trinity College MLA, Cornell University PhD, Edinburgh College of Art

Kristine Miller’s research addresses public space and its role in public life. Her books, Designs on the Public: the Private Lives of New York’s Public Spaces (2007) and Almost Home, the Public Work of Gertrude Jekyll (2012) map the relationships among design, identity, politics, and places.

Miller examines the potential of landscape architecture to create more equitable cities through ReMix, a long-term, place-based, award-winning community/University partnership with Juxtaposition Arts (JXTA). JXTA

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is an arts, youth, and social enterprisebased community organization in North Minneapolis. Since 2005, students, faculty, staff, and alumni from the University’s Department of Landscape Architecture and College of Design and JXTA have collaborated on teaching, research, design, and outreach projects integrating design education with local community-building efforts. JXTA helps students develop their skills in art and design as pathways to accomplishing their individual educational and professional goals, and to provide hands-on experiences that show the ways that art and design can build community assets. University of Minnesota prepares the next generation of public interest designers while supporting and strengthening the real-world work of locally determined asset-based community building. In 2013, ReMix received funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to expand their programming, and Miller was one of two University of Minnesota Faculty to receive the Outstanding Community Service Award, and in 2012 she

received a Leadership Fellowship from the Bush Foundation. She advises graduate research assistants interested in environmental design and social change like Amber Hill and Coal Dorius’s 2012 collaboration with the Cleveland Neighborhood to reimagine its main community park.

Recognition Bush Foundation Fellowship for work on design and equity, 2012 Council for Educators in Landscape Architecture Award for Excellence in Teaching, Research, and Service, 2005 Dumbarton Oaks Fellowship in Landscape Architecture, 2003–04

Professor in Practice Joe Favour Joseph Favour is associate professor of practice in landscape architecture at the University of Minnesota’s College of Design. He is a registered landscape architect, with 18 years of experience in his field. His teaching and practice interests are focused on the intersection of current practice, evolving graphic technology (2d drawing, 3d rendering, and data-based modeling programs like GIS or BIM), the implementation process of built work, and cost/material/performance implications of design. Another interest area is the rapidly evolving methods of professional practice in response to emerging technologies in materials, computer applications, and revised cost models. He is interested in how this has affected the structure of offices, how projects are completed, the method they

are delivered, and the business models of practice. He continues by which to practice and bring those experiences into his teaching and academic work.

BLA, University of Minnesota MLA, Harvard Graduate School of Design Professional Experience oslund.and.associates, Minneapolis Sanders, Wacker, Bergly, St. Paul Habiger, Kretman, Shaffer, St. Paul

Recognition 2011. American Society of Landscape Architects, Minnesota Chapter Honor Award. Target Plaza at Target Field, Minneapolis.

2010. American Institute of Architects Honor Award.

MacArthur Park Connections Master Plan, Little Rock, Arkansas.

2009. American Society of Landscape Architects, Minnesota Chapter Merit Award. MacArthur Park Connections Master Plan, Little Rock, Arkansas.

2010. American Institute of Architects Honor Award.

St. John’s Abbey and Monastery Guesthouse, Collegeville, Minnesota.

2008. American Society of Landscape Architects, Colorado Chapter Honor Award. Bloomington Central Station Park, Bloomington, Minnesota.

2007. American Society of Landscape Architects, Minnesota Chapter Merit Award. Gold Medal Park, Minneapolis.

2007. American Society of Landscape Architects, Minnesota Chapter Merit Award. St. Paul Central Library Courtyard, St. Paul.

2007. American Society of Landscape Architects, Minnesota Chapter Merit Award. Private Residence, Minnetonka, Minnesota.

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Professor John Koepke

Professor Rebecca Krinke

Teaching Experience

BLA, University of Minnesota

BLA, University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota

MLA, University of Washington

MFA, Massachussetts College of Art

Harvard University, Graduate School of Design

John Koepke’s strong interest in environmental science led him to collaborate with other College of Design faculty on the Ecological Design Education Project, which studied how to incorporate ecological literacy and thinking into the design curriculum of the college. This project led to the College of Design Living Labs Consortium and Project, with the mission to investigate and promote ecological innovation in the teaching, research, and practice of landscape architecture, architecture, and interior design.

Professional Experience Jones and Jones, Seattle. Washington Charles Tooker, City and Town Planning, Minneapolis.

James Robin and Bob Close Landscape Architects, Minneapolis.

Trossen/Wright Architects, St. Paul.

Recognition Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Outstanding Administrator Award Illinois State Historical Society’s Book of the Year Award. Envisioning Cahokia: A Landscape Interpretation (with Rinita Dalan, George Holley, Harold Watters and William Woods).

American Society of Landscape Architects, Minnesota Chapter Merit Award. Cannon Valley Trail Master Plan.

Rebecca Krinke is a multimedia artist and designer working in sculpture, installations, public art, and site art/design. In broad terms, her creative practice and research deals with issues related to trauma and recovery—moving from body to space, from object to landscape—exploring trauma as it moves from individuals to societies to ecosystems and back again. Krinke’s sculpture has focused on embodying trauma—using the body as a starting point—while her installations and site works have often focused on ideas of recovery through contemplative, transformative environments.

Krinke disseminates her work through gallery shows, temporary public works, and permanent works. She has shown her work at national and international venues such as the Walker Art Center, Franconia Sculpture Park, and BV Gallery, Bristol, England. She is represented by Rosalux Gallery, Minneapolis. Krinke is a frequent guest lecturer and critic, and has given invited presentations in the last year at the National University of Ireland/Maynooth, the University of the West of England in Bristol, Catholic University in Washington, DC, and at Virginia Tech, among others. She has been a visiting artist at the Art Institute of San Francisco, the University of Southern Colorado, and St. John’s University. Krinke is co-convener of the international artist-academic network Mapping Spectral Traces and a member of the UK-based group PLaCE, an artist-academic collective for place-based practice and research.

Rhode Island School of Design Boston Architectural Center

Recognition Imagine Fund Individual Faculty Award, 2012, 2011, 2010 Institute for Advanced Study Symposium Award College of Design Teaching Award CELA (Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture) Award of Recognition (for innovation in teaching and research) Faculty Fellowship Award, Metropolitan Design Center

Laura Musacchio Associate Professor BLA (magna cum laude) and MLA, State University New York Syracuse Ph.D., Urban and Regional Science. Texas A&M University

Laura Musacchio works at the intersection of design and science in her teaching and research activities. She collaborates with students from a variety of disciplines in her interdisciplinary courses including landscape architecture, architecture, urban design, conservation biology, natural resources, urban and regional planning, public policy, humanities, and arts. Her research projects are inspiration for her courses in urban landscape ecology, regreening cities and regions, ecological design and planning, and urban biodiversity. For example, she is part of an interdisciplinary research team that has been recently funded by NASA and investigates

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how city size and shape influence severe weather, urban pollution, and canopy transition patterns in the Great Plains. In addition, she is an editorial board member of Landscape Ecology and Landscape and Urban Planning and has been a guest editor of special issues for Landscape Ecology, Landscape Journal, and Urban Ecosystems.

Recent Publications Musacchio L (2013) Key concepts and research priorities for landscape sustainability. Landscape Ecology 28:995–998 Musacchio L (2013) Cultivating deep care: Integrating landscape ecological research into the cultural dimension of ecosystem services.

Landscape Ecology 28:1025–1038 Musacchio L (2011) The grand challenge to operationalize landscape sustainability and the design-in-science paradigm. Landscape Ecology 26:1–5 Musacchio L (2011) The world’s matrix of vegetation: Hunting the hidden dimension of landscape sustainability. Landscape and Urban Planning 100:356–360

Recognition Resident Fellowship, Institute on the Environment College of Design Outstanding Research Award Planetizen’s 2006 Top 10 Books Designing Small Parks: A Manual Addressing Social and Ecological Concerns Designing Small Parks (by Ann Forsyth and Laura Musacchio)

Professor David Pitt MLA, University of Massachussetts Ph.D., University of Arizona

David Pitt has worked with the Metropolitan Council, the McKnight Foundation, and the University of Minnesota Center for Urban and Regional Affairs to develop a landscape assessment process that local governments can use to facilitate smart growth in an environmentally responsible way. With several University colleagues, Pitt is developing a systemic approach to GeoDesign, which integrates spatiotemporal modeling of landscape performance.

A recent grant from the USDA-Conservation Innovation Grant program facilitates application of this work to the collaborative design of multifunctional landscapes in the Minnesota River valley. With internal University funding, Pitt and his colleagues are constructing a GeoDesign decision lab to examine the ways in which the presentation of information, group dynamics, and social and individual learning affect outcomes of landscape planning decision making. Pitt holds adjunct appointments in urban and regional planning and forest resources, and is a member of the graduate faculty in water resources science.

Recognition

Roy Jones Award for Outstanding Research

Coeditor, Landscape Journal 2012. Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners.

2003. Outstanding Educator Award. Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture 1989. ASLA Merit Award for production of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service videotape entitled “A Management Plan for Hamden Slough National Wildlife Refuge.”

1984. ASLA Merit Award for chapter contributed to publication entitled, “Energy Conserving Site Design”

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Assistant Professor Matthew Tucker MLA, Harvard University

Native to the Loess Hills bioregion of western Iowa, Matthew has a sustained interest in the diverse landscape patterns and processes of place. He is a designer with a strong background in ecologically and culturally sensitive site design and planning.

With nearly two decades of experience on complex projects, his work focuses on damaged, postindustrial urban sites, urban ecology and hydrology, and the application of sustainable design and construction principles. His work has been noted for its symbiosis between theory and practice. He was the former director of design and principal at Conservation Design Forum and was a senior associate at the Cambridge, Massachusetts office of Hargreaves Associates. He has taught and lectured at numerous universities.

Teaching Experience University of Minnesota Iowa State University University of Illinois

Professional Experience Hargreaves Associates, Senior Associate Conservation Design Forum, Principal Land and Community Associates, Cultural Landscape Planner Edward Durell Stone Associates, Designer Dallas County Conservation Board, Iowa

Recognition 2009. American Institute of Architects Honor Award of Excellence, Florida Chapter. South Pointe Park (with Hargreaves Associates) 2009. American Society of Landscape Architects, Illinois Chapter Merit Award. Queens Botanical Garden Visitor Administration Center (with CDF)

2008. American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment Top Ten Green Projects Award.

Queens Botanic Garden (with CDF) 2008. American Institute of Architects New York Award of Excellence. Queens Botanic Garden (with CDF0 2008. Illinois Lieutenant Governor Environmental Hero Award. Sylvan Slough Natural Area (with CDF) 2004. US EPA and New York City Green Building Design Award. Queens Botanic Garden (with CDF) 2004. US EPA Urban Conservation Award.

Humboldt Park Prairie Streams. (with CDF) 2004. Urban Land Institute Contribution to Built Environment Award. Kansas City Library Green Roof (with CDF) 2003. American Society of Landscape Architects, Illinois Chapter Merit Award. Queens Botanic Garden (with CDF) 2003. American Society of Landscape Architects, Illinois Chapter President’s Award. Chicago River Master Plan (with CDF) 2001. Boston Society of Landscape Architects Merit Planning Award, Detroit Riverfront (with Harvard Graduate School of Design) 2001. American Society of Landscape Architects Certificate of Merit. Harvard University 2001. Charles Eliot Traveling Fellowship, Finalist.

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Lecturer Brad Agee Director, Undergraduate Studies MLA, University of Minnesota

Bradley Agee is the director of undergraduate studies for the Department of Landscape Architecture, adjunct faculty member, and a design/build professional.

Alternating between his 20-year old design build practice and a 15-year teaching relationship with the College of Design, Agee continues to find great satisfaction in his dual roles in academic and professional practice. “I think at best the passion I have for design, the enthusiasm I bring to the classroom, and the accessibility I offer my students to consider broadly connected ideas independently have contributed to the larger goals of the college.” Agee interacts with undergraduate students at multiple points in their academic careers and directly affects the direction, values, development, and interests of a new generation of young designers. He is particularly interested in graphic representation, landscape architectural history, spatial perception, and the evolving definition of public and private space.

Lecturer Vincent deBritto B.Arch, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo MLA, Cornell University

DeBritto has worked a graphic designer and modelbuilder in California and London, England. As a professional landscape architect, he has received a national honor award from the American Society of Landscape Architects, citations from the Government Services Administration, and numerous awards from the Minnesota Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects for his design work. He teaches graduate design studios, guides the thesis preparation course and thesis studio for master of landscape Architecture students, and is managing editor of the Landscape Journal.

2010. Government Services Administration Citation in landscape architecture. United States Land Port of Entry, Warroad, Minnesota (with Coen+partners) 2009. American Society of Landscape Architects Honor Award and American Society of Landscape Architects, Minnesota Chapter Merit Award.

Westminster Presbyterian Church Courtyard (with Coen+partners) 2009. American Institute of Architects Education Award. Remediation as Catalyst: A Collaborative Reworking of Post-Industrial Landscapes (with John Comazzi and Lance Neckar) 2008. Government Services Administration Citation in unbuilt work. United States Land Port of Entry, Warroad, Minnesota (with Coen+partners) 2006. American Society of Landscape Architects, Minnesota Chapter Merit Award. Minneapolis Central Library (with Coen+partners)

Coen+Partners, Minneapolis

2004. Finalist Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture. Cellular technologies and their effect on the use of public spaces in Rome.

Freelance graphic designer, San Francisco and Minneapolis (Pentagram SF, KTDA, Bohannon Eberts Design, Debra Nichols Design, Bright and Associates)

American Institute of Graphic Arts National Award and British Art Directors Club National Award.

San Francisco International Airport Environmental Graphics (with KTDA, SOM)

Professional Experience

Freelance architectural modelmaker, San Francisco Intern architect, Hornberger Worstell, San Francisco Intern architect, daSilva Associates, Millbrae

Recognition 2012. College of Design Outstanding Teaching Award 2011. American Society of Landscape Architects, Minnesota Chapter Honor Award. United States Land Port of Entry, Warroad, Minnesota (with Coen+partners) 2011. American Society of Landscape Architects, Minnesota Chapter Merit Award. Private residence on Lake Calhoun (with coen+partners)

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2010. American Society of Landscape Architects, Minnesota Chapter Merit Award. Private residence on Lake of the Isles (with Coen+partners)

Adjunct Professor Patrick Nunnally MA English, Vanderbilt University MA American Studies, University of Iowa Ph.D. American Studies, University of Iowa MSLA, University of Minnesota

For over two decades, Patrick Nunnally’s work has focused on understanding and enhancing the connections that people and communities have with places they value.

As a teacher, program designer, researcher, and practitioner, Nunnally has integrated knowledge drawn from social and natural

sciences with artistic forms of community expression. His work at the University of Minnesota has emphasized community engagement in teaching and program development, and emerging use of social media to share knowledge across disparate academic disciplines and professional practices. More information about the program can be found at riverdesign.umn.edu.

Professional Experience Coordinator, River Life (formerly Mississippi River Initiative), an interdisciplinary, multicollegiate program that strengthens the connections between the University of Minnesota and communities engaged in river sustainability 2001–05. Executive director, Mississippi River Trail, Inc. a 10-state nonprofit organization that coordinates bicycle trail development and promotion along the Mississippi River.

1998–2005. Project director, regional communication and interpretive projects that develop partnerships with communities and organizations throughout the Upper Mississippi River region.

1998–2001. Senior staff member, University of Minnesota, at the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs under a grant from the McKnight Foundation to facilitate communication among cities on the Upper Mississippi.

2001–03. Research historian and interpretive planner, Interpretive Plan development, Skyline Parkway (Duluth, MN).

2002. Study leader, Fall Foliage Along the Upper Mississippi, excursion sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution.

2001. Researcher, Great River Road Interpretive Plan Development.

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ALUMNI NEWS/ ANNOUCEMENTS Kelty McKinnon Kelty McKinnon (MLA ’97) is a managing partner at PFS Studio (formerly Phillips Farevaag Smallenberg), a leading Canadian planning, urban design, and landscape architecture firm offering consulting services nationally and internationally. McKinnon specializes in projects dealing with the public realm and is committed to the creation of unique, innovative public space that is both culturally and ecologically rich. She played a key role in PFS’s success in design competitions, including the international Toronto Harbour Front Competition, the Gardiner Expressway Innovative Ideas Competition in Toronto, and the Lansdowne Park Competition in Ottawa.

Her artistic and landscape architectural work has been shown in London, Vienna, New York, Berlin, Vancouver, and Walla Walla. McKinnon has served on numerous public art and historic district advisory committees and the Board of Directors for the Vancouver Centre for Contemporary Asian Art.

Shawn Kummer Shawn Kummer (MLA ’03) is a designer and project manager for GreenWorks in Portland. “In GreenWorks, I found a team dedicated to achieving creative, innovative, and quality work, with a strong commitment to environmental and sustainable ethics.” Shawn’s work combines art and ecology and includes projects like Rufus Island, a mitigation and restoration project to enhance Oregon shoreline for fish habitat. (Photos at http://greenworkspc. com/2011/01/28/rufus-restoration-planting-completed/.)

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Cort Eidem: Project Designer, Tom Leader Studio Cort Eidem ’13) began as an intern with TLS in fall 2012 and now is a project designer contributing to projects that range in scale from a new section of Beijing’s financial district (with SOM Architects), to a housing development at the University of California-Santa Barbara, to a small urban plaza in downtown San Francisco. Cort is also contributing to a wetland ecology and open space network project in Wuxi Taihu, China, an approximately 500-hectare master plan that enhances wetland ecology and improves open space connections in a rapidly urbanizing area (http://worldlandscapearchitect.com/wuxi-taihu-new-city-wuxi-china-som-with-tom-leader-studio/#.

UgE-8ZLVB8E) and to Leader’s RiverFIRST initiatives in Minneapolis.

Cort is also part of the TLS team shortlisted for the upcoming redesign of Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis working in collaboration with !melk, Bruce Mau Design, and L’Observatoire. Prior to studying at the University of Minnesota, Cort worked on HIV/AIDS, public health, and community development issues with the Peace Corps.

Cort’s capstone explored strategies for community-driven and asset-based urban design in neighborhoods that have faced ongoing economic challenges.

Xiaowei Ma Xiaowei Ma (MLA ’98) is founder and president of Ager Group. an international multidisciplinary design firm. With offices in Boston, Shanghai, and Beijing, Ager has over 120 professional employees including landscape architects, architects, planners, civil engineers, and graphic and industrial designers and offers design services.

An alumnus of the Beijing Forestry University, Ma came to the United States to earn a graduate degree in landscape architecture from the University of Minnesota, after which he worked for Sasaki Associates and other U.S. firms before returning to China to set up his own office in 2001. Ma currently serves as a member of the College of Design Advisory Board.

Rockcastle is interested in working across the disciplines of landscape, ecology, art, architecture, and infrastructure and fully engaging all aspects of public projects from policy analysis to community engagement. She holds a BFA in sculpture and printmaking from Cornell University and an MLA from the University of Pennsylvania. She has taught at Harvard GSD, Yale School of Architecture, and the University of Pennsylvania School of Design.

Named for the designer of the Minneapolis Grand Rounds park system, the H.W.S. Cleveland Fellowship attracts leading landscape designers and teachers who enrich the curriculum for students and faculty, and ensures the continued prominence and leadership of the landscape architecture program within the local and national landscape community

Maura Rockcastle Named 2013–14 H. W .S. Cleveland Fellow Maura Rockcastle, project manager with Tom Leader Studio (TLS), our 2013–14 Cleveland Fellow, will contribute to graduate-level design studio courses as a lecturer and guest critic. Rockcastle recently relocated from New York City to Minneapolis to help establish a Twin Cities TLS office. She is currently managing several RiverFirst priority projects along the Mississippi River. and leading the TLS design team for the Nicollet Mall design competition.

While in New York, Rockcastle worked at James Corner Field Operations and Snøhetta on all phases of design and construction for several cultural, institutional, and public projects including Section 1 of the High Line, a 4,500 -acre master plan for Shelby Farms Park in Memphis, and the reconstruction of Times Square.

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Watershed Event April 2014 Students for Design Activism, in partnership with the University Department of Landscape Architecture, will host a public screening of “Watershed” at the Mill City Museum in Minneapolis on Friday, April 11, 2014. The intent was to create a statewide discussion about the challenges and pathways to clean water in Minnesota. “Watershed” examines the water resource ethics and environmental issues raised by the use and transport of water from the Colorado River to supply Southern California. Current changes in the landscape and the visible decline of water quality and quality of Minnesota’s water make “Watershed” a great opportunity to shed light on water use in Minnesota. The screening was paired with a discussion between the audience and a panel of interdisciplinary professionals with local and global water resource expertise. It highlighted the obstacles as well as the potential paths to clean water from a neighborhood, citywide, and statewide perspective. Following the screening there was an exhibition of student and faculty work showcasing water-focused projects

In this way, Students for Design Activism anticipates that the film, student exhibitions, and public and professional engagement will be a catalyst for further conversations about future solutions and imagined scenarios of water resource issues and ethics in Minnesota.

Guest Speaker Highlights 2013–14 Every year we host a variety of guest speakers from professional practice and other academic institutions who also contribute to design studios as guest critics.

Rob Holmes ASLA (Topic: Interdisciplinary Landscapes) Rob Holmes is a landscape architect and instructor in the landscape architecture program at Virginia Tech. He is cofounder of Mammoth, a research and design collaborative that investigates the interface of infrastructures, logistics, landscapes, and architectural possibilities in contemporary cities. Holmes completed his BA at Covenant College and his MLA at Virginia Tech.

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