Climate adaptation, participatory design, community engagement, sustainable construction, theory, history, social context, urban agriculture and many more topics are reviewed, analyzed and explored in a curriculum taught by faculty well known and prominent in their respective fields. Courses with environmental planning students promotes collaboration between disciplines and Praxis Studios bring together juniors, seniors and graduate students to take on complex projects that focus on a specific theme or scale or on ecological, open space or community design options.
This foundational approach to landscape architecture education positions graduates in the program to engage and lead interdisciplinary teams of planners, engineers, ecologists and social scientists. It provides the tools and knowledge to explore solutions to the problems of our time: climate change, demographic shifts, increasing income inequality, food scarcity, and the spread of global pandemics. And more importantly, be part of a more sustainable, viable, just, healthy, inclusive, and beautiful world.