[Biostudent] AUT '24 L Arch courses - Open to all majors!

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We have a great selection of both lower and upper-division courses in the Landscape Architecture department this Autumn that would benefit from having cross-disciplinary enrollment from your students! For undergraduate students, all courses can fulfill our Urban Ecological Design Minor, and some have additional Gen Eds that can be fulfilled as well. Please forward the course opportunities listed below to your students if applicable:
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L ARCH 210: Environmental Design and Sustainability
Ken Yocom
5 credits, NSc
MWF 2:30-3:50
SLN: 23410

The health of our world and the quality of our lives and future generations depends on how we act now and plan for future generations. This foundational course will use the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to examine the social, environmental, and economic concerns that all nations must confront in the face of issues such as climate change, cyclical poverty, and food insecurity and examine case studies of strategies in design, planning, and policy to engage these issues through just and equitable practices.

L ARCH 341: Site Design and Planning
Catherine DeAlmeida
3 credits, A&H
TTh 11:30-12:50
SLN: 17230

“Site design and planning is the art and science shaping the places we live and work. Its aim is foundationally moral and aesthetic: to enhance everyday life.”
– Lynch and Hack, Site Planning

Through field trips, lectures, drawing, and discussion, this course explores the art and science of shaping sites. Balancing broad conceptual frameworks with practical tools, we will survey the ecological, cultural, political and technical dimensions that influence site design and planning in contemporary practice.

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L ARCH 352: History of Landscape Architecture
Elizabeth Umbanhowar
5 credits, A&H/SSc+ Writing
TTH 4:00-5:50
SLN: 17231

Landscape architecture is more than the study of elite, private gardens. Landscape histories bear witness to the diverse experiences, ideas, and people that, through time, have shaped places both exalted and everyday. In this survey, we critically examine the writing, production, and performance of global landscapes and their narratives from the Paleolithic to the mid-19th century in this critical survey. Through diverse archives, landscapes, and media, we will learn to “read” cultural and designed landscapes and their histories offers important life skills: to challenge the legacies of colonialism and oppression, interrogate our present-day environmental crises, and apply our learning to navigate uncertain futures.

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L ARCH 322: Plants and Society
Katie Vincent
3 credits, A&H
MWF 11:30-12:50
SLN: 17229

Taught through a lens of cultural ecology and ethnobotany this class will explore lasting and ongoing relationships between people in plants. Focused on plants and plant communities native to the Pacific Northwest students will learn about how various species have and continue to nourish, heal, and support other necessary needs for human well being. Students will also learn reciprocal strategies for tending to plants through various practices of propagation, planting, pruning, and harvesting. The course is intended to support learning for students interested in horticulture, forestry, landscape architecture, and urban ecology.
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L ARCH 498A: Sensory Design, An Interdisciplinary Seminar
Amy Wagenfeld
3 credits
T 3:00 – 5:50 pm
SLN: 17245

This seminar will provide students with an overview of the eight sensory systems and their importance in design. Providing future design professionals with a footing in the importance of the sensory systems and their relevance to built environments enriches design decisions by giving students a better understanding of how the sensory systems guide our daily lives, resulting in more thoughtful, adaptive, and inclusive designs. With increased interest in designing for individuals with neurodiversity this seminar is timely and important.

Weekly small group assignments culminating in a final major project as well as information sharing, guest lectures, and experiential learning will factor significantly into the course structure.
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L ARCH 498C: Empathetic Design - for Collaborative Well-being in a World of Change
Lynne Manzo
3 credits
TTh 11:30 – 12:50

Fulfills MLA Socio-political Dimensions of Design Selective

This new seminar will explore our dynamic relationships to place, the land, and other species in a context of precarity & change, and consider what it means for designers to have a deeper societal accountability. It will begin by considering foundational concepts such as empathy, the ethic of care, interrelationality and collective well-being as frameworks to approach design. In doing so, we will consider what empathetic design might look like in today’s world.

Readings will include excerpts from the following texts. Sacred Civics, Arts of Living on a Damaged Plant, Empathetic Design, Belonging: A Culture of Place, Mushroom at the End of the World, Ecological and Social Healing, as well as built projects, art installations, spoken word, videos, and GIS StoryMaps.

This class will consider the following issues and their intersections:
·  Collective well-being and collective action
·  Inclusivity and the politics of belonging
·  Ethic of care empathy & reciprocity
·  Interrelationality & multispecies entanglements
·  Justice-to-come and visions of the oppressed
·  Recognition, reconciliation & reparations
·  Storytelling for a hopeful future
To invite imagination and creativity, assignments will be open to creative work such as concept models, collages, palimpsests, and videos as well as written reflections.

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L ARCH 498E: Urban Forestry
Cynthia Updegrave
3 credits
Th 1:30 – 4:20
SLN: 23846

Fulfills BLA Ecology/Adv. Plants Directed Elective, MLA BioPhysical Ecology Selection

This course is focused on the trees and the urban canopy within the City of Seattle. Students will utilize in-field engagement with urban forests to understand critical nature-based solutions for mitigating the impacts of a changing climate, and explore the development of just and equitable solutions for the  protection of communities most impacted by the changing climate.

The course will emphasize the human dimensions both historically and currently within urban forests.Topics will include the many ways ecosystems support human health and well-being, the impacts of colonization, urbanization and social policies on ecosystem fragmentation, and connections between disparities in canopy cover and human health.
We will apply and practice this knowledge in supporting a community-based Native Forest Garden, the first greenspace project co-managed by local Tribes and the City of Seattle.

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