From the Rooftops: A LARP Summer Lecture Series

From the Rooftops is a virtual lecture series hosted by the Department of Landscape Architecture at the Weitzman School of Design. It intends to bring students, professionals, and scholars together over topics central to landscape’s present and futures. The series will feature talks from the Department’s faculty on a plethora of topics, research, and, curiosities.

With each lecture, we hope to provide accessible content that inspires meaningful conversation and learning on landscape architecture during a time where in-person exchanges are not able to be offered.

Lectures will be released weekly on Mondays, starting June 1, 2020.

6/1 Fritz Steiner, Dean, Weitzman School of Design, Paley Professor, Co-Executive Director, The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology. Watch "The Ecological Underpinnings of Design"
6/8 Sonja Duempelmann, Associate Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture. WATCH "The Nature, Culture, and Politics of Street Trees" 
6/15 Richard Weller, Chair, Department of Landscape Architecture, Co-Executive Director, The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology. WATCH "Animals of the Anthropocene" 
6/22 Matthijs Bouw, Associate Professor of Practice, Department of Landscape Architecture. WATCH "Design with Risk"
6/29 Dana Tomlin, Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture. WATCH "Whether Mapping"
7/6 Anu Mathur, Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture. WATCH "Engaging in Place Through the Lens of a Stain"
7/13 Sean Burkholder, Andrew Gordon Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture. WATCH "On Time: Landscape as Event"
7/20 Chris Marcinkoski, Associate Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture. WATCH "Why Landscape? Urbanization in the Age of Speculation"
7/27 Keith VanDerSys, Senior Lecturer, Department of Landscape Architecture. WATCH "Locally Remote: Preliminary Notes on Cultivating Gardeners"
8/3 David Gouverneur, Associate Professor of Practice, Department of Landscape Architecture. WATCH "Seeding Change in the Latin American Landscape"
8/10 Karen M’Closkey, Associate Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture. WATCH "Down to Earth"
8/24 Billy Fleming, Wilks Family Director, The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology. WATCH "Praxis in a Time of Crisis: Politics, Power, and the Green New Deal"
8/31 Nick Pevzner, Senior Lecturer, Department of Landscape Architecture. WATCH "Design and the Energy Landscape"