New Modes and Models for Purpose-Driven Design

“When the impact of the design of the built environment on issues of social justice and public health is appreciated—especially in a time of extreme climate change and widening inequality—the landscape project should be recognized as an essential service. Absent a source of substantial funding for public interest landscape architecture, landscape architects must themselves build a structure that allows this essential service to be advanced within or alongside the existing practice model.”

In their recent essay published in ‘The Landscape Project,’ OLIN Labs coordinator Rebecca Popowsky and former OLIN labs member Sarai Williams consider new modes of landscape architecture practice and developing models of professional structures, discussing several landscape architecture and planning practices that present potential to challenge and expand the scope of practice.

To learn more, read their essay here.