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[image: Gena Wirth] If you ll be in New Orleans next week for the ASLA convention, you can join SCAPE Studio and the Dredge Research Collaborative for a bus tour of petrochemical and sedimentary infrastructure along River Road. In addition to SCAPE and the DRC, you ll have the opportunity to hear from local experts including Scott [ ]
The Dredge Research Collaborative is inviting participants to apply for the workshops at our upcoming event, DredgeFest California. We are seeking faculty, practicing designers, scientists, industry professionals, policymakers, regulators, junior scholars, advanced students, and other interested parties to join us in the Bay Area, June 13-19, 2016. [Tours at DredgeFest Great Lakes, summer 2015.]…
[Levee between two containment cells on Craney Island, summer 2013.] I m speaking this Saturday, 28 Feb, at an interdisciplinary arts event in Amsterdam, the Sonic Acts Festival, whose theme for 2015 is The Geologic Imagination . My talk is in a session that starts at 10:30 am, entitled Landscape Transformation . The session also includes geologist and [ ]
At the end of September, I spoke at an event organized by The Architectural League and co-sponsored by The Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design, The Five Thousand Pound Life: Land . The Architectural League has recently posted video from the event, so you can now watch the many presentations and discussions; I particularly recommend Jesse [ ]
Places Journal (newly independent of Design Observer) recently published an argument by Brian Davis and Thomas Oles that landscape architecture should be renamed landscape science: “Slowly — fitfully — landscape architecture is remaking itself. Its adherents are venturing from the confines of garden, park, and plaza into strange and difficult territory, where they face challenges [ ]
[Small multiples of the extent of North Pole sea ice, 1979-2014; via NASA s Scientific Visualization Studio.]
[The DredgeFest Louisiana tour enters the Morganza Spillway; I am pretty sure that Tim took these pictures.] In the recent August issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine, Jennifer Reut wrote a generous profile of the Dredge Research Collaborative and DredgeFest: It seems almost inevitable, after two successful DredgeFests and several massive coastal floods, that this group [ ]
[Hauling earth during the expansion of the Panama Canal; AP Photo] A quick and rather late notice, of particular relevance to readers in NYC: I ll be on a panel this Friday, September 26, for The Five Thousand Pound Life s Land symposium, which is co-sponsored by the Architectural League of New York and the Cooper Union [ ]
At Next City, Amanda Kolson Hurley reports on two examples of contemporary suburban growth, Montgomery County in Maryland and the York region of Ontario, and ties those two examples into broader questions regarding the future viability of suburbanism: Dead malls. Zombie subdivisions. Metastasizing sprawl. Not a horror movie, but the suburbs circa 2014, or at [ ]
In an article for the recently-launched ARPA Journal, Kate Orff describes a pair of SCAPE pilot projects in New York Harbor, both testing the viability of ecological design concepts for specific harbor-dwelling species along the edge of Brooklyn s industrial waterfront. [The blue mussel pilot project; image by SCAPE via ARPA Journal.] The first, located near [ ]
[Two images from artist Jenny Odell s series Landmarks, which traces inadvertent monuments produced by remote infrastructural operations, such as the Athabasca Oil Sands (top) and a network of unknown detonation sites (above) at the Nevada Test Site. The images can be seen in larger and much larger versions on Odell s website.]
[The Spratly Islands] A series of reports from the Philippine government recently emerged and came to the attention of the international press, describing a series of semi-clandestine island-building operations undertaken by the Chinese government in the South China Sea. (To quote a local fishing contractor who works in the vicinity: there was this huge Chinese [ ]
[Diagram describing the interaction between a script to generate a planting plan and data generated from the soil and salinity analyses , from Philip Belesky s research project Processes and Processors .] I recently encountered the work of Philip Belesky, a PhD candidate at RMIT s Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory, who is thinking very interesting thoughts about the role [ ]
[Four recent atmospheric paintings of abstracted anthropogenic geomorphologies by Philip Govedare, whose work was recently featured on Butdoesitfloat. In order from top to bottom, the paintings are: Melt , Excavation #5 , Mesosphere , and Excavation #6 .]
[As a Friday return to blogging for mammoth, photographs of Formlessfinder s lovely half-pile under cantilevered canopy at Design Miami, December 2013. You can watch the architects talk about the design and construction of the pile over an exceptionally annoying soundtrack here. More architecture via material deformation, please. The photographs are, in order from top to [ ]
