Landscape Architecture 593E - S-Restoring Community

This design studio engages the topic of food security: at both the global and local level, through both theory and design, and from the perspective of the individual and the collective. Students will interrogate their local foodshed and develop new strategies for productive landscapes, and in the process, cultivate their own ethic/practice/values. In developing a kitchen garden for the UMass campus, students will link theory and design to address the environmental, social, economic and aesthetic needs of their client and program. Initially, students will work individually to develop small-scale prototypes for food production. As the semester continues, students will work in teams to develop a comprehensive design for a kitchen garden, which will be built.

Join UMass Amherst landscape architecture students for a housing design studio in the spring. The four credit
class will address the importance of landscape design in building a sense of community in
neighborhoods and towns. Students will work individually and in groups on a host of design exercises,
leading up to the development of a final project for multifamily housing landscapes. In connecting critical
theory to the best practices in landscape architecture, students will develop original design solutions for
resilient future neighborhoods.