FRI-C04: Animal Agency in the Landscape

Friday, November 11, 2022

1:30pm – 3:00pm PT

Location: Moscone Center, Room 207-208

1.50 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AICP, FL, NY/HSW

Lead Speaker(s)

Stacy Passmore, Assoc. ASLA, AICP, LEED AP

Principal
Superbloom
Denver, Colorado

Speaker(s)

Steven N. Handel, Hon. ASLA

Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolution
Rutgers University
Bridgewater, New Jersey
Gena Wirth, ASLA

Design Principal
SCAPE
New York, New York

Interspecies dynamics are playing an increased role in designed landscapes, but animals can have both positive and negative impacts. An ecologist and two designers will discuss ways of collaborating with wildlife and enhancing public attitudes towards truly ‘living’ landscapes. Can animal agency improve resilience in the time of climate change?

Learning Outcomes:

Understand the role of wildlife in landscape aesthetics, performance and climate change mitigation, and the range of ways that landscape architects are designing for wildlife to enhance built landscapes.
Outline principles of ecological design that advance animal agency and understand the ways animals, vertebrates and invertebrates, can enhance landscape design function and appeal.
Explore the complex realities and challenges of designing landscapes that support both wildlife and people, including ways that animals can negatively impact landscape designs and sustainability.
Grasp concepts for designing landscape features to encourage animal presence and learn differences in habitat requirements for representative species.