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LARCH 498 / 598 Floating Wetlands Workshop

LARCH 498K (SLN 22122) / 598K (SLN 22123)

No add code required

1-2 credits

Get hands-on experience preparing, constructing, and deploying experimental floating wetlands! Floating (or constructed) wetlands are a highly efficient ecosystem restoration technology that can be used to retrofit degraded urban shorelines and provide a wide variety of wetland ecosystem services to improve water quality and conserve wild fisheries.

This unconventional class consists primarily of Saturday field work. Students meet for 2 classroom lectures, 1 field trip, and 6-7 field work shifts. Field work shifts are on Saturdays, will take place outdoors, and involve light construction and physical labor.

1. Lectures

Friday 1/10 9:30-10:20 am

Friday 2/28 9:30-10:20 am

2. Field Trip (required)

Saturday 1/11 8:00-noon

3. Field Work Shifts

AT UW or ON SITE AT DUWAMISH RIVER

Students choose six-to-seven 4-hour shifts on the following 8-hour days (exact times TBD).

Saturday 1/25

Saturday 2/1

Saturday 2/8

Saturday 2/15

Saturday 2/22

Saturday 2/29

Saturday 3/7

L ARCH 353 History of Modern Landscape Architecture MWF 11:30–12:50, honors section F 11:30-12:50 | Maria Taylor 5 credits, VLPA / I&S + Writing (SLN 16152)

What makes an urban landscape modern? A great public park? An inspiring work of landscape art? This course will explore the history of gardens and landscapes as designed, built, critiqued and used in diverse cultures and places, in particular the differences and continuities relevant to the 20th Century’s division of “capitalist” “socialist” and “developing” worlds. We will begin in the late 19th century period of industrialization and modernization by examining the first parks designed for the public, and work our way up to the “post-industrial” parks and landscapes of the late 20th century. We will study small gardens that inspire the poet and large nature preserves, as well as city plazas, corporate roof gardens, and the neighborhood park.

L ARCH 361 The Human Experience of Place TTH 10:00–11:20 | Lynne Manzo 3 credits, VLPA / I&S + Diversity (SLN 16154)

This course brings together the social sciences (psychology, geography, anthropology and sociology) and the design disciplines (landscape architecture, architecture and urban planning) to provide a richer understanding of the human experience of place. Starting with foundational theories on place attachment and place identity, we will also explore our relationships to nature, landscape perception and cognition, safety and environmental design, urban change and gentrification, community development, and urban public space

L ARCH 498/598C Perceptions of Nature Seminar W 5:30-8:20pm | Laure Heland ([email protected]) 3 credits (SLN 23239)

InterAction Nepal | Design, Development, Global Health | Spring | 2020

InterAction Nepal is an immersive, interdisciplinary study abroad program offered with the support of the UW Department of Landscape Architecture, the JSIS South Asia Center Nepal Studies Initiative and the Department of Global Health. The program will challenge you to delve into contemporary issues surrounding urban development in the Kathmandu Valley and respond to them at a local scale through community-based participatory design, project implementation and assessment. You will work with Nepali students and residents of an underserved community to design and build a small-scale project and evaluate its impacts on human and environmental health. You will also have the opportunity to pursue your own design or research interests through independent study. Program activities include lectures and discussions, language instruction, field trips within and outside the Kathmandu Valley, community workshops and hands-on design/fabrication/construction.

Information Sessions:

·        WEDNESDAY, OCT. 23RD @ 12:30pm - Gould Hall 442

·        THURSDAY OCT. 31ST @ 12:30pm - Thomson Hall 317

·        FRIDAY NOV. 8TH @ 12:30pm - Harris Hydraulics Small Conf. Rm

·        THURSDAY NOV. 14th - Study Abroad Fair@10am-2pm - HUB BALLROOM

Program Brochure / Applications:

Please visit the UW Study Abroad application portal here.

Applications Due: November 15th

Applications submitted by November 15th will be given preferred consideration. Applications submitted after November 15th will be considered on a rolling basis, if space is still available.

Contact:

Ben Spencer 

If you are attending Summer Quarter 2019, here is a great opportunity to take an eight day trip to Quebec City, Montreal and Ottawa, before Summer Quarter starts, and earn credits.  The Canada Field Studies course (L ARCH 495A or URBDP 498C/598C) is from June 16th to June 23rd, 2019.  Summer Quarter begins June 24th, 2019, but this course is considered part of Summer Quarter. Please see the attached itinerary, program description and poster.  This has been a popular course to earn I&S credits or apply towards an Urban Planning & Design Minor or an Urban Ecological Design Minor.  It can also count towards Landscape Architecture URBDP Directed Electives or any majors Thesis Electives.  It is a great course for anyone interested in understanding cities.

Landscape architecture has several courses open to non-majors this autumn.

L ARCH 212 Designing the Future - (5) credits, VLPA & I&S

L ARCH 300 Intro. to Landscape Architecture Studio - (6) credits, VLPA

L ARCH 341 Site Design & Planning - (3) credits, VLPA

L ARCH 352 History of Landscape Architecture - (5) credits, VLPA or I&S; Writing

Landscape architecture is the design of environments – environments that encompass both natural and social worlds, urban spaces and wilderness, land, water, and air. It is a practice of design for people and communities, plants and animals, while supporting social and natural processes, and protecting human and environmental health and well-being.