Start Date
04/26/2024
End Date
04/26/2024
Description
Throughout the world, people are re-evaluating how they interact with the landscape. From contemporary agricultural practice where monocultures dominate, to modern landscape design where static plant assemblages are managed to suppress successional change, it is clear that more nuanced approaches are needed. Fortunately, formulating these approaches does not require re-inventing the wheel. It does require, however, examining some of the highly sophisticated, ecological process-based practices that traditional cultures employed worldwide over millennia. While plant species and physical environments differ across these regions, many of the practices are surprisingly similar. In this presentation, Landscape Designer Larry Weaner will illustrate how traditional practices from around the world can be adapted to local conditions. While also considering issues of cultural appropriation, he will show how these practices can help solve many of the horticultural, ecological, and even artistic challenges that contemporary landscape practitioners face.
Distance Learning
Yes
Course Equivalency
No
Subjects
Horticulture / Plants
Health, Safety and Welfare
Yes
Hours
3.0
Learning Outcomes
1. Learn how common landscape practices across varying cultures worldwide can be adapted to regional environmental conditions.
2. Learn about highly sophisticated traditional landscape practices that for millennia have provided for human needs while supporting healthy ecological systems.
3. Learn how to adapt historic, regenerative landscape practices to the practical and cultural requirements of contemporary landscape design.
Instructors
Larry Weaner, FAPLD
Course Codes
Provider
New Directions in the American Landscape