Stream 'Landscape Futures' on YouTube

On September 27 and 28, 2024, the Department of Landscape Architecture presented Landscape Futures: Centennial of the Department of Landscape Architecture. The program included keynotes from James Corner (MLA’86) and Anne Whiston Spirn (MLA’74), as well as three panels moderated by landscape architecture faculty, all of which can be streamed on YouTube. 

The Naturalist 
With Jared Farmer, Sally Willig, Tessa Lowinske Desmond 

Moderated by Sean Burkholder Jared Farmer, PhD, is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Arts and Sciences. Sally Willig, PhD, is a lecturer and program advisor in the Master of Environmental Studies program at the University of Pennsylvania’s College of Liberal and Professional Studies and Weitzman’s Department of Landscape Architecture. Tessa Lowinske Desmond is a research specialist in the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, where she directs The Seed Farm at Princeton. Sean Burkholder is the Andrew Gordon Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Weitzman School of Design.

The Astronaut
With M. Christine Boyer (MS’64), Andrew Zolli , Alvin D. Harvey  
Moderated by Azzurra Cox

M. Christine Boyer, PhD, is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at Princeton University’s School of Architecture, where she directs the undergraduate urban studies certificate program. Andrew Zolli is Chief Impact Officer at Planet, a space and AI organization that has deployed the largest constellation of Earth-observing satellites in history. Alvin D. Harvey, PhD, is Diné of the Navajo Nation and a postdoctoral fellow at MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, with a focus on Indigenous Research Methodologies and Methods. Azzurra Cox is an assistant professor of landscape architecture at the Weitzman School of Design.

The Household of Nature 
With Sonja Dümpelmann, Lydia Kallipoliti, Rob Holmes 
Moderated by Nicholas Pevzner (MLA’09) 

Sonja Dümpelmann is Professor and Chair of Environmental Humanities at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where she co-directs the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. Lydia Kallipoliti is an associate professor and director of the Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design program at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. Rob Holmes is an associate professor and chair of the undergraduate landscape architecture program at Auburn University, where he leads the Landscape Infrastructure Design Lab. Nicholas Pevzner is an assistant professor of landscape architecture at the Weitzman School of Design.