Resilience planning and climate adaptation design expert Pippa Brashear kicks off this series with "Designing the Dynamic Landscape". Pippa is Director of Planning and Resilience at Scape, NYC.

Lectures begin at 7:00 P.M. Avedesian Auditorium (Room 170) in the Pharmacy Building on the Kingston Campus of URI. Please note that lectures will be held on Thursdays except for the October 11th talk, which will be on a Tuesday. All attendees need to conform to URI Covid-19 Protocols in affect at the time. Lectures will be followed by an interactive Q & A session.

This series is co-sponsored by: the RI Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Landscape Forms, URI Dept. of Landscape Architecture, URI College of the Environment and Life Sciences, URI University Libraries, and the Faella, Gaetano and Pasqualina Memorial Endowment. 

Lectures are free and the lecture hall is handicapped accessible. General questions may be directed to 401.874.2983 or to wagre@uri.edu.

2022 Schedule

September 29: Pippa Brashear, Director of Planning and Resilience, Scape, NYC, Designing the Dynamic Landscape

October 11: Carolina Aragon, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Seeing the Future: Art Installations and Climate Change

November 3: Chris Reed, Founding Director, STOSS Landscape Urbanism, Boston, Staging

November 17: Kristen Couture Lucas, Landscape Architect

December 1: Amanda Gaal Weston & Sampson, Boston, 2nd speaker pending, The Art of Equitable Communication