Landscape Futures: Centennial of the Department of Landscape Architecture

Fritz Steiner, Dean and Paley Professor

Catherine Seavitt, Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Meyerson Chair of Urbanism

Centennial Opening Keynote

with an introduction by Christopher Marcinkoski

James Corner is founding partner and CEO of Field Operations. He served as the chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture from 2000–2012.  

Christopher Marcinkoski is an associate professor of landscape architecture at the Weitzman School of Design and a founding principal at PORT. 

with Layer Cake and a Champagne toast

Symposium Opening Keynote

with an introduction by Lucinda Sanders (MLA’89) 

Anne Whiston Spirn is the Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism at MIT, and director of the West Philadelphia Landscape Project since 1987. Spirn served as chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture from 1986–1994 and is the author of The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design (1984) and many other critically acclaimed books.   

Lucinda Sanders is an adjunct professor of landscape architecture at the Weitzman School of Design and CEO of OLIN. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

Centennial Closing Keynote

with an introduction by Jessica Varner

Jeff Goodell is an investigative journalist and author of The New York Times bestseller The Heat Will Kill You First, and six additional books on the environment and the climate emergency. His research confronts humanity’s fraught relationship with our rapidly changing planet. 

Jessica Varner, PhD, is an assistant professor of landscape architecture at the Weitzman School of Design. 

The closing keynote will be followed by a book signing by Jeff Goodell in the Upper Gallery.

with a musical performance by DJ Farrah Flosscett

All events will be held in Meyerson Hall, Plaza Gallery.