This week, Sean Burkholder (Landscape Architecture, University of Pennsylvania) will join the lecture series “Thinking, Imagining, Building Future Environments.”
This lecture will, through a set of applied examples, describe a design practice that situates many of landscape architecture’s core agendas as fundamental considerations in the design of coastal infrastructure. Of particular interest will be the focus on the necessary collaborations with agencies, residents, nonhuman creatures, and abiotic agents like tidal forces, sediment, and storm dynamics to secure funding and achieve construction. All this work is guided by the question: How can we as landscape designers work more effectively with dynamic, evolving coastal landscapes in ways that acknowledge the unprecedented conditions of climate change?
All talks are completely free and open to the public. The talks may be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students in Munich, or to anyone with an interest in environmental issues.
Thinking, Imagining, and Building Future Environments
This interdisciplinary lecture series presents a range of topics related to human-environment relationships and consists of lectures by faculty from various disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. By presenting diverse research related to environmental issues, the lectures will shed light onto the complexity of human-environment relationships. Why and how do different disciplines explore and think about this nexus and specific materials, organisms, phenomena, and representations of the environment? The lecture series seeks to enhance students’ environmental literacy and open up multiple perspectives on environments of the past, present, and future.