Great write-up on how landscape architecture can play a crucial role in mitigating fires by designing and implementing strategies that reduce fire risk and improve resilience. Landscaping isn't just about aesthetics. It is about designing outdoor spaces with elements that enhance the security, accessibility, and overall well-being of residents and visitors. #commerciallandscaping#residentiallandscaping#landscapearchitecture#landscapedesign#environmentaldesign
Landscape architects use their skills to design safer, more resilient communities.
The devastating Park Fire in California highlights the urgent need for climate-resilient land use planning. In an interview with BNN Bloomberg, Emily Schlickman, ASLA, UC Davis assistant professor of landscape architecture and environmental design, discusses her work on the Big Chico Creek watershed and how thoughtful landscape management could mitigate wildfire risks.
Read more: https://bit.ly/3SPq1Dp
Image Credit: ASLA 2016 Student General Design Honor Award. The Digital & The Wild: Mitigating Wildfire Risk Through Landscape Adaptations. Jordan Duke, Student ASLA, Faculty Advisor: Liat Margolis, ASLA. University of Toronto
#ClimateAction#Wildfire#LandscapeArchitecture
We respectfully disagree with this statement in the summary:
“While there is not a direct relationship between every tree and degree of temperature reduction, it’s clear from the literature that more greenery produces greater temperature benefits.”
Indeed, there is a direct relationship between every tree and the temperature reduction . Keep an eye on our book to be published soon! It’ll include the science-based tutorials.
Nevertheless, we’re looking forward to look into the attached publication.
“Extreme heat is expected to impact more people and places in the U.S. and across the globe in coming decades, with the greatest impacts to marginalized and underserved communities. An estimated 250,000 excess deaths are expected per year by 2050. Our research demonstrates the importance of maximizing the benefits of nature-based solutions to extreme heat. And landscape architects do that every day through their critically important planning and design work" -- Dr. Daniella Hirschfeld, ASLA, PhD
The ASLA Fund has released new peer-reviewed research on landscape architecture solutions to extreme heat, the deadliest climate impact.
The research was developed by Dr. Daniella Hirschfeld, ASLA, PhD, Assistant Professor of Climate Adaptation Planning, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning Department, Utah State University. Dr. Hirschfeld won a competitive national grant from the ASLA Fund in 2023 to conduct the research.
Read the executive summary, which includes case studies and project examples, and the full research study: https://bit.ly/3x2ECn5
Image Credit: ASLA 2022 Professional General Design Honor Award. From Brownfield to Green Anchor in the Assembly Square District. Somerville, Massachusetts. OJB Landscape Architecture / Kyle Caldwell
#ExtremeHeat#LandscapeArchitecture#NatureBasedSolutions#PublicHealth
“Extreme heat is expected to impact more people and places in the U.S. and across the globe in coming decades, with the greatest impacts to marginalized and underserved communities. An estimated 250,000 excess deaths are expected per year by 2050. Our research demonstrates the importance of maximizing the benefits of nature-based solutions to extreme heat. And landscape architects do that every day through their critically important planning and design work" -- Dr. Daniella Hirschfeld, ASLA, PhD
The ASLA Fund has released new peer-reviewed research on landscape architecture solutions to extreme heat, the deadliest climate impact.
The research was developed by Dr. Daniella Hirschfeld, ASLA, PhD, Assistant Professor of Climate Adaptation Planning, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning Department, Utah State University. Dr. Hirschfeld won a competitive national grant from the ASLA Fund in 2023 to conduct the research.
Read the executive summary, which includes case studies and project examples, and the full research study: https://bit.ly/3x2ECn5
Image Credit: ASLA 2022 Professional General Design Honor Award. From Brownfield to Green Anchor in the Assembly Square District. Somerville, Massachusetts. OJB Landscape Architecture / Kyle Caldwell
#ExtremeHeat#LandscapeArchitecture#NatureBasedSolutions#PublicHealth
New research from ASLA Fund reviewed over 100 peer-reviewed studies to identify which nature-based solutions (NbS) site design and planning strategies provide the greatest reduction in urban heat island (UHI) effects.
Results reiterate the importance of collaboration with allied professionals such as #urbanforesters and #arborists to increase tree canopy cover and shade, reduce impervious surfaces, and increase connectivity of green spaces (larger or connected green spaces provide more cooling benefits than smaller isolated green spaces).
Future research needs identified include distribution and equity, designing for co-benefits, climate zone variability, geographic scale, and measurement approaches.
American Society of Landscape Architects#urbanplanning#landscapearchitecture#sitedesign#urbanheatisland#naturebasedsolutions#urbanforestry#arboriculture#treecanopy#treeequity#naturalareas
“Extreme heat is expected to impact more people and places in the U.S. and across the globe in coming decades, with the greatest impacts to marginalized and underserved communities. An estimated 250,000 excess deaths are expected per year by 2050. Our research demonstrates the importance of maximizing the benefits of nature-based solutions to extreme heat. And landscape architects do that every day through their critically important planning and design work" -- Dr. Daniella Hirschfeld, ASLA, PhD
The ASLA Fund has released new peer-reviewed research on landscape architecture solutions to extreme heat, the deadliest climate impact.
The research was developed by Dr. Daniella Hirschfeld, ASLA, PhD, Assistant Professor of Climate Adaptation Planning, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning Department, Utah State University. Dr. Hirschfeld won a competitive national grant from the ASLA Fund in 2023 to conduct the research.
Read the executive summary, which includes case studies and project examples, and the full research study: https://bit.ly/3x2ECn5
Image Credit: ASLA 2022 Professional General Design Honor Award. From Brownfield to Green Anchor in the Assembly Square District. Somerville, Massachusetts. OJB Landscape Architecture / Kyle Caldwell
#ExtremeHeat#LandscapeArchitecture#NatureBasedSolutions#PublicHealth
The ASLA State Chapters for Michigan, Illinois, Upstate NY, Ohio, Minnesota, and Indiana and the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects invite you to attend the 2024 Great Lakes Region Climate Action Seminar. This is the third event in a series aimed to explore and expand landscape architecture’s role regarding climate change impacts occurring in urban and natural systems across the Great Lakes Region.
The theme for the 2024 Seminar is Design for Biodiversity reflecting ASLA’s recent call for landscape architecture to take a leading role in acknowledging and addressing the biodiversity crisis connected to the climate crisis. For more information and to submit a proposal, download the Call for Proposals here: nyuasla.org
#landscapearchitecture#landarch#growingtogether#upstatelandscapes#landscapedesign#landscape#design#designer#resilienttogther#sustainability
Our landscape architects create projects that combine recreation with habitat restoration, using their expertise to create healthy and robust habitats that are also enriching, engaging places for recreation.
🌿Learn more about how we develop designs that enhance habitat while providing public access: https://bit.ly/43qYtIh
A real treat interviewing pioneering landscape architect Kongjian Yu for MaRS Discovery District#solveforx on his counterintuitive idea for handling flooding in our cities.
Instead of fighting 🥊 water by building more dams, sewers and pipes, he proposes we let it in , designing nature-based infrastructure that can absorb run-off.
His principles have been adopted by the Chinese government and implemented in hundreds of municipalities.
Could this nature-based approach help us adapt to a changing climate?
Link to the full interview in comments below.
📷 Turenscape
#urbandesign#architecture#beijing#landscapearchitecture#oberlanderprize2023#climatechange
This I find inspiring! Julia Watson and Dr. Lyla June Johnston setting the stage for the American Society of Landscape Architects annual general meeting.
Not that long ago, I considered whether to re-train myself and become a landscape architect or stick to the field of Industrial design.
What attracted me was the obvious path fwd I saw. To work with living matter, getting to know a place, its history, its species, promoting its biodiversity, etc.
Yet I stuck with Industrial Design (for many good reasons) and became the architect of my own piece of land. And as the seasons and years pass, you’ll find me expressing that I am my garden. It enters my gut, impacting my microbiome. It’s teaching me many things about design that somehow never reached me through training or experience.
A way forward for (industrial) design lies in #circularity… but with way more emphasis on and better understanding of the “#regenerate” principle (and I don’t mean a downplay of these terms in favour of doing more of the same business in a circular fashion). I am talking about designing as If we are part of nature, as participants instead of ‘users of its resources’. Which is ridiculous to say, because we already are, we just don’t act accordingly.
Whether we could still refer to our discipline as ‘industrial design’ is debatable. I think my interest to stick with the latter, goes hand in hand with an urge to change it at the core. Shift it from human to #ecocentric.
And that’s why I find this inspiring…
Foregrounding intercultural knowledge for strategy, innovation & design | Founder & Principal of Julia Watson | Co-founder of o—TEK Institute | MLA II Harvard GSD
Never did I imagine that Lo—TEK would one day be the opening talk for the American Society of Landscape Architects Annual General Meeting. Please join me next week in celebrating the work of our community, guided by the power of these words, Insight: honoring our past, illuminating our future — one I would suggest should be Ancestral. I'll be speaking alongside my friend and collaborator Dr. Lyla June Johnston.
We’ll be presenting Ancestral Futures: Indigenous Science and Technological Innovations in Landscape Architecture which will be followed by a special performance and a historic Call to Action. This opportunity to set the tone of the meeting and to call into being a new direction for ASLA's Climate Action Plan framework, is truly an honor.
See you at the American Society of Landscape Architects Conference next Monday, October 7th, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington D.C. #ASLA2024
Nationwide, 66 percent of landscape architects and designers surveyed are recommending the integration of climate solutions to “all or most” of their clients, approximately the same as found in a 2021 survey.
They are creating demand for more sustainable and resilient landscape planning and design practices through “advocacy by design” approaches that persuade city, local government, and other clients to update policies and regulations.
To increase resilience to climate impacts, enhance biodiversity, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the same time, landscape architects are planning and designing infrastructure at all scales – from the city and county to district, neighborhood, and site.
Read more findings from ASLA's 2024 Climate Survey in ASLA's THE DIRT: https://bit.ly/3X50J7c
Image Credit: ASLA 2017 Professional Analysis and Planning Award of Excellence. Storm + Sand + Sea + Strand — Barrier Island Resiliency Planning for Galveston Island State Park. Galveston, TX, Studio Outside
#LandscapeArchitecture#NatureBasedSolutions#ResiliencePlanning
🌊Have you watched a film about oysters and rain water and learned about the significance of oysters to queerness, about our waters future, and the shaping of our built environment? Not us either, but thanks to our community partners and our curator Kristal Celik, that is going to become a reality!
Margaret Ikeda spearheads innovative design research of hybrid nature- and human-made marine ecosystems.
Check out California College of the Arts PlanktoScope live-feed video projection! What microscopic creatures live in our Bay water?
Presidio Culvert Reef - The Presidio Trust and CCA’s Architectural Ecologies Lab partnership develops innovative designs to foster the growth of oyster beds under a concrete gully in Crissy Field Marsh. Concrete is less concrete and more fluid than you think.
Wild Oyster Project - The Wild Oyster Project works towards restoring wild oysters in the San Francisco Bay, a shallow estuarine system that once had significant intertidal habitat. Save Your Shucks!
Port of San Francisco Embarcadero Seawall - The Port of San Francisco is undertaking a $13 billion infrastructure project to safeguard San Francisco from sea level rise. As part of this huge project, it is spearheading a living seawall pilot. While traditional seawalls are barren, exposed concrete surfaces, living seawalls are designed to encourage underwater habitats.
RSVP for this before it's too late! https://lnkd.in/g7hNSXD4
Dimitris Poulios, Architect, Urban Planner, and TPA Partner, is featured on Build | Constructive News, on the challenges of #designing#sustainable#water#infrastructures. Responsible water management is a key preoccupation in our practice, and we are grateful to share our insights with the public.
According to Dimitris Poulios, "Water constitutes a fundamental element in contemporary landscape architecture, urban planning, and urban design. On the occasion of World Water Day, we need to reconsider urban environments through the lens of natural processes, emphasizing green infrastructure, enhancing resilience against floods and drought. This direction is embedded in the modern vocabulary of design, where the concept of 'Sponge City' precisely describes a new functional relationship with the city that prioritizes sustainable stormwater management and replenishment of groundwater resources."
