Start Date
07/08/2022
End Date
07/08/2022
Description
Institutional and historic landscapes often struggle with excess turf, and the
environmentally damaging maintenance practices that accompany it. This is particularly
true in cemeteries where grave markers must remain visible and accessible. Through
case studies showing design and establishment of “rewilding” projects in Brooklyn’s
Green-Wood Cemetery and Cambridge’s Mount Auburn Cemetery, our presenters
will investigate how an increasing desire for ecologically immersive spaces can help
invigorate cemetery and other institutional landscapes.
Distance Learning
Yes
Course Equivalency
No
Subjects
Horticulture / Plants
Parks & Recreation
Health, Safety and Welfare
Yes
Hours
2.25
Learning Outcomes
Provide a multi-disciplinary perspective on the intersection of design and long-term ecological land management.
Understand historic precedents of more naturalistic land management models and how those ideas can be used to advance ecological applications.
Discuss the changing generational expectations about institutional landscapes, including both a traditional desire for “neat and tidy” maintenance with an emerging demand for more ecologically immersive spaces.
Extract practical, real-world tactics for naturalistic turf, urban meadows, and the design and management of urban woodland remnants and ponds.
Instructors
Joseph Charap, Thomas Rainer, & Jenna Webster
Course Codes
Provider
New Directions in the American Landscape