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Senior landscape architecture capstone focuses on climate resilience this spring

By Sarah Jane Riddick, Meaning of water quantity + quality in world regions with wide-spread poverty

The senior landscape architectureÌýcapstone studio, Landscape as Agent: Climate Resilience (LAND 4100), instructedÌýby ENVD Instructor Emily Greenwood,Ìýlaunched the spring semester with a research paper that covered a specific theme of climate change, along with a graphic collage that represented their research. The data-driven collages were used as tools to help frame discussions around climate change impacts. The research from this assignment will inform the studio’s next assignment.Ìý

Using various research resources, students could choose from the following climate change vulnerabilities to investigate to create a better understanding of the issue.

  • Extreme weather events
  • Climate change inequity
  • Air quality and carbon emissions
  • Ocean health
  • Water quality and quantity
  • Food security and safety
  • Human Health
  • Energy Sources

Referencing their new knowledge, students were tasked with creating a tabloid-sized collage using digital and/or analog tools. Using techniques such as layering, the collage could have included compelling graphics such as maps, text, photographs and sketches.Ìý

By Makenna Karhoff, We need resources now

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Non-communicable diseases | Emily Chinowsky
Climate change | Unaware by Corey Niemann

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LAND 4100 research collage
By Patrick Sanderson

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Senior landscape architecture capstone focuses on climate resilience this spring