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Wednesday, April 24th, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Rutgers Art Library, Voorhees Hall, 71 Hamilton Street
The Exhibition will be running until August 22, 2024.
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Wednesday, April 24th, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Rutgers Art Library, Voorhees Hall, 71 Hamilton Street
The Exhibition will be running until August 22, 2024.
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Doing field research in Hungary, Austria, and Germany, Wolfram Hoefer was invited to the Austrian Public Radio Ö1 Program: “Im Gespräch” (in conversation) with radio host Renata Schmidtkunz. The conversation touches on the relationship between religion and nature. Another aspect of the conversion are the diverse understandings of the term cultural landscape in North America and Europe and how those impact approaches on land use, planning, and landscape architecture.
Listen to the interview:
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About the prize: “Roy passionately believed that students should have an educational travel experience as undergraduates. For many years he led summer study-abroad courses for the department and saw the profound impact that travel has on the appreciation and study of landscape architecture. To encourage students to develop their own independent study-travel experiences, he founded and supported through his gifts a competitive Landscape Architecture Travel Prize that awards a stipend to help underwrite an educational trip.” Read more about Roy DeBoer.
This year, three students traveled and presented their experiences at Common Lecture.
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Today, the Biden administration announced that landscape architecture has been designated a STEM discipline!
Specifically, Landscape Architecture (04.0601) was added to the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) STEM-designated degree program list. Along with landscape architecture, seven additional disciplines were added to the list, including: Institutional Research (13.0608); Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering Technology/Technician (15.0407); Composite Materials Technology/Technician (15.0617); Linguistics and Computer Science (30.4801); Developmental and Adolescent Psychology (42.2710); Geospatial Intelligence (43.0407); and Demography and Population Studies (45.0501).
This new designation rightfully places landscape architecture alongside other STEM disciplines. Landscape architecture universities will be able to recruit from a broader talent pool. And, as a STEM discipline more young people will now be introduced to the profession.
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This pilot garden advances AIR Collaborative’s aim to create a series of Universally Accessible Gardens on Rutgers land to foster spatial justice for people with disabilities. A Rutgers Research Council Social and Racial Justice Grant and the passionate involvement of students, staff, and faculty realized the construction of a small pilot garden on the site of 178 Jones Avenue in New Brunswick, where the new garden joins existing community gardens and the weekly Community Farmers Market.
This pilot was designed and built by landscape architecture students and will be programmed for and undertaken by people with disabilities. Interns from the Douglass Discovery Program accompanied the project from the concept to the opening and documented the process on social media.
See our pamphlet to learn more about the therapeutic benefits of gardening and the main principles of universal design.
Download the Rutgers Universal Access Garden Pamphlet (PDF)
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Wednesday, April 26th, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Rutgers Art Library, Voorhees Hall, 71 Hamilton Street
The Exhibition will be running until May 24th.
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Stephen Whiteman and Kate John-Alder guest edited a special forum edition of the journal The Studies in the Histories of Gardens & Landscape Design titled Port Cities and Landscapes of the Sea.
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Written in collaboration with the Ramapough Lunaape Nation Turtle Clan, Our Land, Our Stories tells the intertwined story of racial and environmental injustice at the Ringwood Mines/Landfill Superfund Site. We document contested narratives around the site’s contamination by Ford Motor Company in the late 1960s and early 1970s, leading to its listing as a Superfund site in subsequent decades. We unearth the histories and stories that have been buried alongside the dangerous chemicals that remain deep in the soil, just miles from a major drinking water reservoir, and counter the processes of erasure that have made the continuing presence of Indigenous peoples invisible to many.
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Dieter Kienast (1945–1998) is a key Swiss figure in European landscape architecture. Amidst a striking change in societal understandings of nature, he sought a synthesis between design and ecology in the 1970s. He designed spaces to make the dissolving opposition between city and countryside legible and to enable aesthetic experience to help cope with increasingly complex everyday life. As a designer, planner, researcher and university lecturer, Kienast introduced new challenges into the discussion of those fields. Critique of urban planning, processes of participation and the significance of spontaneous urban vegetation played just as much a role in these discussions as did art, literature, architecture and the popularity of postmodernism.
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Ian McHarg and the Search for the Ideal Order examines the well-known and much-studied landscape architect, Ian McHarg, in a new light. The author explores McHarg’s formative years and vestigates how his ideas developed in both complexity and scale. The resulting argument offers new interpretations into the search for order outlined in McHarg’s influential book, Design with Nature, and outlines how his struggle to understand humanity’s relationship to the environment in an era of rapid social and technological change reflects an ongoing challenge that landscape design has yet to fully resolve.”
“A recent review by Fritz Steiner commends the text’s “amazing scholarship,” and the “critical, insightful, engaging, thorough” analysis of McHarg’s intellectual development. “
“Kathleen John–Alder is Associate Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Rutgers University. A practicing landscape architect with degrees from Oberlin College, Rutgers University, and Yale School of Architecture, her scholarly research bridges disciplinary boundaries in order to explore the transformative role of ecology and environmentalism in the discourse of mid-twentieth century landscape design, and its impact upon contemporary practice. John-Alder has published articles in Landscape Journal, The Journal of Planning History, JOLA, Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, Site/Lines, and Manifest. Her work has also received design and research awards from the Van Alan Institute, the National Park Service, and the American Society of Landscape Architects”