We see our campus as an incredible resource for engaging with the landscape and doing land- and field-based experimentation. Our representation courses taught by @fromfallow and @jsmachylo are both doing modules in the #uconnforest featuring living material and ecological processes.

The UConn Forest consists of 2,100 acres of forestland distributed among parcels of various sizes in the Storrs vicinity. UConn Forest is managed by a committee of faculty and staff under the umbrella of the @uconnnre

#drawing #photography #care #forestecology #forestwalks

Thank you for everyone’s help at Parking day today! What an amazing opportunity to participate in this global project where people across the world temporarily repurpose curbside parking spaces to advocate for safer, greener, and more equitable streets for people!

#parkingday #ASLA

Our program director, Jill Desimini (@fromfallow) is giving one of the keynote talks at the 2024 Living Cites Forum (@livingcitiesforum) this week in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia.

In this remote talk, she explores the capacity of abandoned urban spaces to become places of cultural and ecological wealth in cities through the lens of Bridgeport, Connecticut, and its waterfront. Building on her work in From Fallow (ORO Editions, 2019) and Cyclical City (UVA Press, 2022), she discusses how to find value that transcends capital and profit, how to work collectively to unbuild in the places that we have harmed, and how, in this unbuilding, to address our conflating societal and climatic demands.

The talk will live in the keynote library--check it out when you have a moment!
#landscapearchitecture #climateaction #justice #keynotespeaker #bridgeport #waterfront #accessibility