Registration Eligibility
ASLA online learning opportunities are open to all. ASLA members may purchase this presentation at a reduced rate. This is a 2025 conference session.
Start Date
10/20/2025
End Date
10/20/2027
Description
Three small, agile landscape architecture practices—representing the United States, France, and the Republic of Georgia—discuss working with wild, scruffy processes that result in unconventional landscapes and immersive spaces. Feral design focuses attention away from forms and shapes and toward gradients, atmospheres, and unexpected encounters.
Distance Learning
Yes
Course Equivalency
No
Subjects
Agriculture / Local Food Production
Health, Safety and Welfare
Yes
Hours
1.25
Learning Outcomes
Explore the possibility that releasing control in landscape design, construction, and management can foster qualities like wildness, exploration, and surprise.; Examine concrete and detailed examples of unconventional but successful “feral” design tactics, including planting strategies, maintenance regimes, earthwork, and material reuse.; Understand the partnerships, approaches to professional practice, and implementation methods that leading practitioners are using to design, construct, and maintain feral landscapes.; Learn how a feral approach can help to balance experiential goals with ecological performance, management costs, and the longevity of a project.
Instructors
Mathieu Gontier ; Sarah Cowles
Course Codes
Provider
American Society of Landscape Architects