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Opening: MLA Final Projects Exhibition 2024
Wednesday, April 24th, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pmRutgers Art Library, Voorhees Hall, 71 Hamilton Street The Exhibition will be running until August 22, 2024. View the topics.
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Wolfram Hoefer: Radio conversation in German about diverse perspectives on landscape.
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…
Landscape Architecture designated a STEM discipline
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…
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Rutgers Universal Access Garden
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…
Opening: MLA Final Projects Exhibition 2023
Wednesday, April 26th, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pmRutgers Art Library, Voorhees Hall, 71 Hamilton Street The Exhibition will be running until May 24th. View the topics.
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John-Alder, Whiteman – Port Cities and Landscapes of the Sea
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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New book by Anita Bakshi
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…
New Translation of Book by Anette Freytag
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…
New Book by Kathleen John–Alder
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,…