University of Washington Department of Landscape Architecture

Thank you to everyone who came out to the Seattle Design Festival - and those who participated in “WHAT IF - Kids Designed Their Own Playgrounds?” The pop-up was a great success, with kids and adults alike having fun assembling and designing their imagined playscapes out of found objects (from !) sandbox, and some kraft paper. So many great and inspiring ideas captured and shared here!

Join us for the end of year celebration on June 7th from 6-9 at Magnuson Park!

We will bring some food and drinks, and if you’re joining us, we encourage you to also bring your favorite snacks and share with each others as well :) it will be a potluck style picnic!

Games, music, and picnic gears are also encouraged!

See more details about location through this RSVP or find the link in our bio:

https://partiful.com/e/k1qehj59bwHwlVI0gbLX

Can’t wait to celebrate you!

Join us this Friday for our Lunchtime Lectures series to hear talk about his most recent environmental-design collaborations with the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest and the Fuller Initiative .initiative In this talk Borden will share his research-driven creative process and fluid collaborative approach to environmental-communication at the intersection of landscape, creativity, and cultural event. The image-rich presentation will include a series of new project case studies including the PNW Tree ID project, Forest Fashion, the Arboreal Goth Collection, and the Unfinished Book Bureau. Through these examples, Borden advocates for new models of interdisciplinary environmental education by focusing on solutions to the practical convergence of community, ecology, and design.

As part of the BE Studio this quarter (Restorative Urbanism in South Seattle), we are hosting Paul Bauknight next Monday-Wednesday (5/13-15). In addition to working with the BE Studio students, Paul is hosting two events on Spatial and Design Justice – a student-only workshop on Monday at noon (lunch provided) and an evening lecture Monday night at 6:00. Paul is a dynamic and enthusiastic advocate, activist, practitioner, and educator - we hope you will join for one or both events. Please register at the links below.

Land, Housing, Injustice - a student workshop with Paul Bauknight
Monday, May 13th , 12:00-1:00 pm in Gould Hall 100 – lunch provided.

How has the intersectionality of land and housing created and maintained injustice in America? From indigenous removal, colonization, slavery, migration, and civil rights, land and housing have shaped and continues to shape our cities and communities in inequitable, exclusive, and unjust ways. We will explore the intersection of culture, policy, racism, capitalism, and the built environment. Paul Bauknight, the founder and president of the Center for Transformative Urban Design, is a Spatial and Design Justice advocate, activist, practitioner, and educator. Register here ➡️ https://buff.ly/3JZ5SpL

Radically Imagining Spatial Justice: What can you do to work toward creating more justice for everyone? - a lecture by Paul Bauknight
Monday, May 13th, 6:00-7:30pm in Gould Hall Auditorium (room 322)

What is spatial justice? How can we radically imagine futures where our cities are just, inclusive, and equitable? What unique skills do designers possess and need to develop to facilitate the ultimate creation of these futures? How do we work singularly and collectively raising our voices to foster change? Paul Bauknight, the founder and president of the Center for Transformative Urban Design, is a Spatial and Design Justice advocate, activist, practitioner, and educator.
Register here ➡️ https://buff.ly/4bd4oUT

We did it! Yesterday you helped unlock all of CBE's challenges and together we surpassed the college's goal of $28,000 and raised $31,195* and counting!

Once again you’ve demonstrated the impact we have when our community comes together. We appreciate your support in its many forms. Your generosity will allow the Office of Student Services to continue delivering an exceptional CBE student experience.

Thank you for supporting the College of Built Environments and ensuring our mission lives on!

Reaching over 200 middle and high school students a year, Youths in the Built Environment is yet another program supported by the Office of Student Services.

The CBE Student Success Fund has provided materials that significantly enhance youths' learning and understanding of the built environment. Being able to provide accessible programming for the youths is deeply meaningful to the students who participate. On-site learning helps bring the built environment to the forefront of these students' minds when it comes to making an impact on their community.

While Husky Giving Day is coming to a close, there’s still time to make a meaningful impact on the lives of CBE students and the greater community!

Make a gift using this link ➡️ https://buff.ly/3vCLZRF

Thank you for your continued support of CBE students!

You're all rockstars! Today, you've helped us unlock $7,250 in challenges. There's just one more left until the finish line.

If we reach 115 donors by midnight, Dean Cheng will unlock a personal challenge gift of $1,500!

We need 47 donors to unlock this final challenge. There's only a few hours left to help us reach our goal!

Every gift makes a difference 💝 We've got this! https://buff.ly/4antwI7

At CBE, student-led affinity groups like Somos CBE (Latine Students), Fil-Am Sa CBE (Filipino Students), Sahā CBE (Indian Students), BIPOC Students Affinity Group, and the International Students Affinity Group serve as a vital space for those with underrepresented identities to connect, create spaces of belonging, and thrive.

"As Chair of the BIPOC Students Affinity group, CBE has been a tremendous support. With the help of these funds, I’ve been able to grow the BIPOC Affinity Group community and begin planning programs such as alumni panels and dinner socials. These programs are integral to showing CBE BIPOC students there is an entire community of peers, alumni, and professionals who want to help support each other and make us feel less isolated in such a big industry."
-Rachel L.

By supporting our affinity groups, you are investing in initiatives that empower students, amplify diverse voices, and create a more inclusive environment for all.

There's only a few more hours to make a difference! https://buff.ly/3PM4A4L
Thank you for supporting our students on Husky Giving Day.

Mentorship matchmaking is one of the many ways the Office of Student Services supports student professional development and networking. Programs like CBE’s Mentorship Program help students grow in their chosen field through one-on-one guidance, advice, and insight from a professional mentor. Your contributions to the CBE Student Success Fund help the program reach its goal of providing a mentor to every CBE student wanting guidance from a CBE graduate and/or industry professional.

Thank you for your support! https://buff.ly/3J0t4n4

With the CBE Alumni Giving Challenge unlocked, up next is the First-Time Donors Challenge! We only need 4 more first-time donors to step up and help us unlock an additional $3,000 for the CBE Student Success Fund!

We can do this! https://buff.ly/4aLinRf

Husky Giving Day: Live from Gould Hall!

Tune into our livestream, running from 12 PM until 4 PM, to watch donations build in real time and see the difference we are making together.

Watch here ➡️ https://buff.ly/4cIwR64

Husky Giving Day is here! By supporting the CBE Student Success Fund, you help build students up academically, professionally, and emotionally. The Office of Student Services will use these funds to provide programming and support that benefits CBE students across all 5 departments.

Here are some of the ways that OSS has impacted students in the past year alone:

-Creating and supporting five student-led affinity groups

-Hiring a mental health counselor

-Expanded the CBE Mentorship Program

-Established a new Student Council

💝 Ready to make a gift? Head over to our Husky Giving Day page! https://buff.ly/49psdqJ

Don’t forget to tune into our livestream at 12 PM today, where you can watch donations build in real time! 📹 https://buff.ly/3J6ic7g

Professor Jeff Hou, former Chair and long-time Professor of Landscape Architecture, is retiring from the University of Washington after more than 23 years of teaching, research and service in support of our community. We are excited to see him step into the next phase of his work and life as the Head of Architecture at the National University of Singapore.

While it is hard for our community to have Jeff move on, we congratulate him on this big move and look forward to supporting the next phase of his career.

Read more about Jeff's accomplishments and his retirement on our website: https://buff.ly/49hnR4N

Husky Giving Day is THIS WEEK! Your contributions help our Office of Student Services (OSS) build up students. In the past year, OSS has partnered with students, advisors, and the CBE Diversity Council to support three major efforts:

🐾 Creating and supporting five student-led affinity groups
🐾 Hiring a mental health counselor
🐾 Professional preparation and development

Pssst…. Did you know that early giving gives you a headstart on unlocking challenges and revealing the secret message that we’re live-streaming on Husky Giving Day? Tune in on the day of from 12PM – 4PM to watch your donations build in real time. Every donation counts towards a set number blocks that will construct a message on the game board:

$0-20 = 1 block ◼️
$21-50 = 2 blocks ◼️◼️
$51-100 = 3 blocks ◼️◼️◼️
$101-200 = 6 blocks ◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️
$201-500 = 8 blocks ◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️
$501+ = 10 blocks ◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️

Place your block with a donation by using this link 🧱 ➡️ https://buff.ly/3PCT6QO

Thank you for supporting us on Husky Giving Day!

Rather than the traditional approach of having students purchase virgin lumber, our department chose to source lumber from the UW Salvage Wood Program for this year’s Furniture Studio cohort. To learn more about our furniture studio course and this unprecedented practice of utilizing salvaged wood, check out our StoryMap in our linktree, created by MLA student Joanna Chen!

For the winter quarter's Drawing in Design workshop students from a variety of disciplines including landscape architecture, and planning came together to let out their inner child with Raven Juarez ( ).

Students were led through a series of freeform sketching and crafting exercises that encouraged them to unleash their playfulness through their art. These exercises underscored the importance of expression in artistry, and how reconnecting with your inner child can facilitate that.

Come checkout the amazing pieces from this workshop on display on the third floor of Gould Hall (to the right of the BE Library)!

SPOTS STILL AVAILABLE!!

LARCH 498C will focus on the professional practice of community engagement and how to leverage it as a tool for strengthening place-based communities. We'll deep-dive into social psychology to understand the essence of community, our current social crises (polarization, lonliness, etc.), and the process for bridging identity-groups. We will hear from real-world practitioners and take a critical eye to how community engagement is practiced professionally in the built environment disciplines. And we will learn lots of practical tools, like how to design an outreach process and how to facilitate a community meeting.

This past weekend, the Burke Meadow Team, and many volunteers, worked to weave ‘baskets’ with whips of willow and dogwood to protect newly emerging camas from rabbit browsing. This workshop was held as an ongoing effort by the Meadow Team to implement indigenous practices into the landscape at the Burke Museum Camas Meadow Garden ( ).

Many thanks to the coordinators ( ) and volunteers who came out to make this happen!

DRAWING IN DESIGN
A Quarterly Lecture and Workshop Series: Spring 2024
CHIP SULLIVAN & ELIZABETH BOULTS

DRAWING OUT THE SPIRITS OF PLACE
Join landscape architects Chip Sullivan and Elizabeth Boults on a sketch crawl through the hills, dales, and iconic spaces of the UW campus landscape in search of the genius loci! This magical drawing journey will be inspired by a reframing of nature based archetypes and folklore from cultures across the world to call forth the voice of the genius loci-the spirit of place-and reveal the creative forces and hidden currents of nature.

APPLY by Friday, March 1

WORKSHOP BY APPLICATION
L ARCH 498 A (1 cr.)
Saturday, April 6 - Sunday, April 7
Link to application in bio

LECTURE OPEN TO ALL
Gould 322
Friday, April 5
5:00 pm

*REMINDER* Scan Design Applications are due TOMORROW (2/15) on the UW study abroad portal! Check the link in our bio for more information.
Photos:
1. Scan Design Flyer
2. City Dune in Copenhagen
3. Green roof in Malmo, Sweden
4. Oens Have, an urban farm in Copenhagen

Three graduate students working on a group capstone project focused on proactively preventing pollution from entering the Duwamish River attended a tour of the Georgetown Wet Weather Treatment Station. The students learned about the environmental and social significance of the facility and toured each stage of the primary and secondary water treatments. The event was hosted by The Seattle 2030 District, a public-private partnership of property owners and managers, services stakeholders, and community stakeholders. This network seeks to reduce all building energy consumption, building water consumption, and transportation GHG emissions by 50% by 2030.

REMINDER: The deadline to apply to study abroad in Peru is next Wednesday, January 31, 2024! If you are interested in studying the impact of urbanization on health and ecosystems, this may be the program for you. Check the link in our bio for more information and the program application.

At the end of our Fall quarter, Youth in the Built Environment hosted two high school student groups on campus from the Highline Public School district in Seattle.
Students learned about the college of the built environment and had a chance to do some hands-on activities. Students also had the opportunity to talk to current undergraduate and graduate students about the programs they are in and what they want to do with their degree during panel discussions.
Check out some of the amazing work the students made while visiting us at UW!

New year, new EXTENTS! Submissions are open for the annual student publication and we would love to have your work featured in this year’s publication.
Use the link below to submit your original work to the EXTENTS team. For any questions, reach out to Nat Gregorious at [email protected].

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UW Farm Internships 2024: Deadline 12/20/23
For more information on the UW Farm Internships 2024, please visit:

https://botanicgardens.uw.edu/center-for-urban-horticulture/gardens/uw-farm/volunteer/uw-farm-internships/

Join the Giving Tuesday movement by making a contribution to the Landscape Architecture Fund for Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion today! This student-initiated fund helps to financially support a wide range of programs in UW//LA oriented toward issues of justice in design education and, more broadly, EDI-oriented work within the field of landscape architecture.

Give: https://buff.ly/47TOnkq

It is the hope of current UW//LA students that this funding source will continually support individuals from underrepresented communities in the field of landscape architecture, that it affirms the UW//LA Department’s commitment to justice and equity, and that it will identify impactful programs that would thrive with dedicated long-term funding.

Thank you for supporting us and our future change-makers in the built environment.

Deans List: UW's Renée Cheng on How Comprehensive Design Can Engender Inclusivity

Last month, Archinect featured Dean Renee Cheng in their series Deans List. Check out Renee's interview on CBE as a place for innovation, collaboration and inclusivity.

archinect.com The Deans List is an interview series with the leaders of architecture schools, worldwide. The series profiles the school’s programming, as defined by the dean — giving an invaluable perspective into the institution’s unique curriculum, faculty and academic environment. For...

The UW/LA summer studio is investigating pedestrian corridors through the lense of sacred pilgrimage. The class walked seven miles through suburbia, including the Google campus. They asked themselves, what design elements of silicon valley do we spot? What balance of private and public space is evident?
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