The Landscape Architecture Foundation has launched its Superstudio, a project that's in association with the McHarg Center, the Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes, the American Society of Landscape Architects and the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture.
Superstudio invites designers to be part of a year-long, national event to
translate the core goals of the Green New Deal — decarbonization, justice, and
jobs — into design and planning projects for their respective regions.
The Superstudio
is an open call for designs that spatially manifest the principles and policy
ideas of the Green New Deal with regional and local specificity. A national
climate plan like the Green New Deal will be understood by most people through
the landscapes, buildings, infrastructures and public works agenda that it
inspires. The Superstudio is a concerted effort to give form and visual clarity
to the scale, scope and pace of transformation that the Green New Deal implies.
The Superstudio projects will also inform
a national conversation on policy and design at a Summit convened by the
Landscape Architecture Foundation in September 2021.
Participation in
the Superstudio is open to graduate and undergraduate programs of landscape
architecture, architecture, planning, and related fields as well as
professional practices and individuals in these fields. Participants may also
build teams and/or collaborate with other professions or academic programs and
disciplines, community organizations, local firms, and other stakeholders. The
approach, types of projects, pedagogical method, and how the projects manifest
the ethos of the Green New Deal are at the discretion of each studio.
The Superstudio
will run from August 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021. Universities may
participate in the Superstudio in the fall semester of 2020 and/or the spring
semester of 2021. Other groups and individuals may participate on their own
timeline as long as work is submitted by the June 30 deadline. (Green New Deal
studios that took place before this call are encouraged to submit prior work.)
All studios that
wish to participate must register in order to join the network of other
participating studios and receive access to Superstudio resources, events, and
opportunities. Final materials from the studios must be submitted by June 30,
2021.
For more
information and to register, visit the Landscape Architecture Foundation's website.