Lecturer and Studio Coordinator, Program in Architecture, College of Arts & Sciences & Stuart Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania
Visiting Assistant Professor, Program in Architecture, College of Arts & Sciences & Stuart Weitzman School of Design, Pratt Institute
BIO
Miranda Mote, PhD is a historian, artist, and educator deeply connected to people and places of Philadelphia. Mote graduated with a BArch from University of Cincinnati (1995), MDes in History and Philosophy of Design from Graduate School of Design, Harvard University (2015), and PhD in the History and Theory of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania (2021). She currently serves on ASLA’s inaugural committee on K-12 Education and Career Discovery which advocates for youth in the profession nationally. As the 2023-24 Garden Club of America / Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize, Landscape Architecture Fellow she studied botanical arts, exhibited her own botanical prints, taught at Italian elementary schools, and developed a K-12 environmental literacy curriculum (DIGS) and teaching games (HIVE). In 2022, she established Botanography as a non-profit organization concerned with K-12 STEM pedagogy and aspires to redesign Philadelphia schools as botanical gardens. She believes that environmental justice begins with environmental literacy and children.
“Im Gemeinstry Garten: Evidence of a Common Healing Garden in Seventeenth-Century Pennsylvania,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, published by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Fall 2021. (peer reviewed)
“Words are World-makers,” Book Review: The Francis Daniel Pastorius Reader, Edited by Patrick M. Erben et al. (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2019.
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, published by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, forthcoming. (peer reviewed)
“The Art of Gardening in a Pennsylvania Woods, Francis D. Pastorius’ garden in Germantown, Pennsylvania (ca. 1683–1719),” Expedition Magazine, official members’ magazine for the Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Fall 2020 special issue. (peer reviewed)
“Exquisite Odor, the Colosseum, a garden of serendipitous procreation,”Studies in the Histories of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, An International Quarterly, 35:2, 124-143, DOI: 10.1080/14601176.2014.979582, Spring 2015.
