Exhibit: "Designing a Sustainable Future"
“Designing a Sustainable Future” is an exhibit of selected works from graduate and undergraduate students of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning on display through Sept 11, 2009, in the Integrated Sciences and Engineering Library (Lederle Graduate Research Center Lowrise, Floor 2). The exhibit is on view during library hours. A closing reception will be held on Thursday, September 10, 2009, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. The reception is open to the public and refreshments will be served.
“Designing a Sustainable Future” consists of selected student works from research, community service learning, and studio projects in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning (LARP). It focuses on themes of remediation, renewal, human experience on the land, and sustainability as an art form. The exhibit contains maps, plans, photographs, drawings, data, and a 3-D model, and covers sites around the Pioneer Valley as well as in Belize and England.
The creators of “Designing a Sustainable Future” define sustainability as “caring for and shaping our environment with respect to ecology to build a viable economy that can expand and establish social equity.”
For more information about the exhibit, contact Madeleine Charney at (413) 577-0784 or mcharney@library.umass.edu. For library hours, call (413) 545-1370 or go to www.library.umass.edu/hours.htm.
Credit: Image detail from 2008 Proposed Master Plan for Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Preserve in Augustine, Belize by LARP students Daniel Shaw and Peter W. Stephens
Directions & Parking
In the Lederle Grad Research Center (GRC) Lowrise, 2nd floor.