HARMONIOUS PENS – Redemptive Design in an age of Quarreling

Registration Eligibility

Open to public

Start Date

04/11/2019

End Date

04/11/2019

Description

....this one requires a bit more courage for me, but it will focus on what the next 25 years could offer while looking back at what has influenced our present.
It'll also be philosophical in nature (Did Ian McHarg's conclusion "next time no brains" get it right or wrong?), but it'll be technically relevant to SITES (featuring the first SITES approved project in Indiana, "The Center").
I will knit it together by talking about a holistic (redemptive) approach to design in an age where there are polarizing points of view in the arenas of climate change and approaches to infrastructure repair that either positively or negatively impact economic development. (ReTHINK65, INDY11, River Ridge Master Plan, IUHealth)....these projects combined target over $5B projected construction ----are we designing for the past or the future?
But there is hope---I want to share where I see landscape architects leading the future in Indiana? (Academia/Research/Development/Healthcare/Public Space)
I will share why I believe autonomous technologies on a construction site could place even more opportunity/responsibility on site drawings (Will the information we build from be drawings or digital downloads into machines?) Why? (Shrinking Skills in a shrinking population).
How do these realities impact the future of our academic programs? (Leadership/Management/Business).
This is why it is important to have and understand a personal worldview as a landscape architect, because it is from that worldview that we are influencing our futures?

Location

West Lafayette, IN

Distance Learning

Course Equivalency

Subjects

Site Planning

Health, Safety and Welfare

Hours

1.0

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the session, attendees should be able to:
Trace questions raised by McHarg’s ideas to the creation of SITES and relate the technically relevant content of Indiana’s first SITES project, “the Center.”
Relate the polarizing points of view related to approaches to the built environment, and identify how these approaches may be realized in several large upcoming Indiana Projects.
Share ideas on the future of construction technologies and how they relate to the future of the profession, the kinds of projects that landscape architects will lead, and the impact that will be felt in landscape architecture education.

Instructors

Barth Hendrickson

Course Codes

Provider

Purdue LA Program/Center for Community & Environmental Design

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