https://working-landscapes.com Working Landscapes Lab Fri, 06 Oct 2023 13:21:52 +0000 https://working-landscapes.com en https://working-landscapes.com/Front-page Thu, 05 Oct 2023 14:18:09 +0000 Working Landscapes Lab https://working-landscapes.com/Front-page <img width="1100" height="1650" width_o="1100" height_o="1650" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9caa1a49271a2d2ece688d0df143859dc6d2568735d5e7bfc8eb4badfb568b4c/beastmode_diagram-sm.jpg" data-mid="192951076" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9caa1a49271a2d2ece688d0df143859dc6d2568735d5e7bfc8eb4badfb568b4c/beastmode_diagram-sm.jpg" /> https://working-landscapes.com/Information Thu, 05 Oct 2023 14:18:09 +0000 Working Landscapes Lab https://working-landscapes.com/Information InformationResearch&nbsp;We examine opportunities for design to enhance the social and ecological performance of conventional working landscapes. Teaching &nbsp;In both graduate and undergraduate coursework, we emphasize a synthetic, multi-scale approach to the design and representation of landscape systems. Agri(C)ultural Design&nbsp;Design is fundamentally about people. Whether through public installations or participatory workshops, our work explores ways for design to help communities better understand and engage with agricultural landscapes.&nbsp; Conventional agriculture comprises the largest anthropogenic land use in the world, with crop, livestock and aquaculture production systems impacting ecologies across multiple scales. Nevertheless these “working landscapes” have been largely absent from landscape architectural discourse – with designers and planners primarily engaging with food production vis-a-vis fringe systems like urban farming. The Working Landscapes Lab explores opportunities for landscape architecture to reframe and reshape conventional working landscapes. The Lab has explored a variety of different productive spaces and systems, from catfish farming in the Mississippi Delta to agricultural drainage networks in the Corn Belt. The resulting research outputs have included a range of visual works for exhibition, essays for edited books and scholarly journals and grant funding for transdisciplinary scholarship. While the thematic focus of our work may push the boundaries of landscape architecture, our research methods are foundational to the discipline. Through representation, design speculation and interdisciplinary collaboration, we seek to expand the working methods of landscape architecture to include spaces of agricultural production. <img width="3567" height="2378" width_o="3567" height_o="2378" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/220ac2488488ddc1af6d6b503ab24097dad4e49b4db2db37fc8fae08e26ccd18/Charrette---Agroecologies--11.jpg" data-mid="192823182" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/220ac2488488ddc1af6d6b503ab24097dad4e49b4db2db37fc8fae08e26ccd18/Charrette---Agroecologies--11.jpg" /> The Lab was founded by Forbes Lipschitz, an Associate Professor and the Graduate Chair of Landscape Architecture at the Knowlton School. As a faculty affiliate for the Initiative in Food and AgriCultural Transformation, her current research investigates the potential of design to reframe and reshape conventional working landscapes. Through public installations and participatory workshops, she explores ways for design to help communities better understand and engage with agricultural systems. Her research has been published nationally and internationally and her creative work has been featured in Landscape Architecture Magazine, Metropolis Magazine, and Smithsonian Magazine. She has been awarded funding from the Foundation for Food and Agricultural Research, the Graham Foundation for Fine Arts and the Van Alen Institute.&nbsp; Find Forbes’ CV here. https://working-landscapes.com/Beast-Mode-1 Thu, 05 Oct 2023 14:18:10 +0000 Working Landscapes Lab https://working-landscapes.com/Beast-Mode-1 <img width="1168" height="663" width_o="1168" height_o="663" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9f49cb1d377e3cfda64c8786da5f0c2b2352dc02bd970d0d1bac6bc016599ca1/Slide3.JPG" data-mid="192821647" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9f49cb1d377e3cfda64c8786da5f0c2b2352dc02bd970d0d1bac6bc016599ca1/Slide3.JPG" /> Beast ModeLivestock and the Architecture of Biopower As an infrastructure, the livestock sector is a necessary spatial and sociotechnical system upon which society depends, yet rarely thinks about. The physical and symbolic concealment of animal production and slaughter is necessary in order to maintain its speed, scale and efficiency. Beast Mode: Livestock and the Architecture of Biopower challenges this paradigm by describing and visualizing the infrastructural and architectural manifestations of livestock and poultry production in the United States. The project combines scientific, historical, ecological and cartographic evidence to construct a critical visual inquiry into the built environment of animal agriculture at multiple scales and across several species. Textual analysis combined with maps, diagrams and visualizations expands upon recent scholarship examining landscape infrastructure, logistics and the architecture of biopower. In making visible the concealed spatial techniques and technologies of contemporary animal agriculture, the book highlights the extent to which our collective appetite for meat, eggs and dairy shapes cities, regions and ecosystems as well as the human and non-human animals residing therein. Currently in contract with Routledge Press. &nbsp; <img width="1280" height="720" width_o="1280" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/13b6d844ff67d9a87bf723e739f61a9bed9084fece1144855cfabb7d7cbc60d0/Slide7.JPG" data-mid="192822139" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/13b6d844ff67d9a87bf723e739f61a9bed9084fece1144855cfabb7d7cbc60d0/Slide7.JPG" /> <img width="1280" height="720" width_o="1280" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f5e409099b125b264592b236e699946eaae40376ddffce998fd7bcdaca7bd1b5/Slide8.JPG" data-mid="192822101" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f5e409099b125b264592b236e699946eaae40376ddffce998fd7bcdaca7bd1b5/Slide8.JPG" /> <img width="1280" height="720" width_o="1280" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3cf7352a14e242310cea766258437260a24c975ed108b00e35ece903ba1aa492/Slide5.JPG" data-mid="192822149" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3cf7352a14e242310cea766258437260a24c975ed108b00e35ece903ba1aa492/Slide5.JPG" /> <img width="1280" height="720" width_o="1280" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4c2b39fc195dbaba9e80f9c96e3c80922739aa09e4e5be8f6d72c642e73ac570/Slide6.JPG" data-mid="192822145" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4c2b39fc195dbaba9e80f9c96e3c80922739aa09e4e5be8f6d72c642e73ac570/Slide6.JPG" /> <img width="835" height="602" width_o="835" height_o="602" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d5ba52a2e36f2e599afd98e7cb90427e8856f075a6ef4ff69c73f75c8c0af0fa/Slide4.JPG" data-mid="192824078" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/835/i/d5ba52a2e36f2e599afd98e7cb90427e8856f075a6ef4ff69c73f75c8c0af0fa/Slide4.JPG" /> <img width="1280" height="720" width_o="1280" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b8d61739c890180443bce5e19713a0f5db3e07aa6d530202a50d9e690a5386f9/Slide1.JPG" data-mid="192821686" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b8d61739c890180443bce5e19713a0f5db3e07aa6d530202a50d9e690a5386f9/Slide1.JPG" /> <img width="457" height="679" width_o="457" height_o="679" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/94e8477128038d7c5d832b348f81e76ae6fdb0bd2b3f9ef3362a028edf4254d3/Slide9.JPG" data-mid="192821849" border="0" data-scale="65" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/457/i/94e8477128038d7c5d832b348f81e76ae6fdb0bd2b3f9ef3362a028edf4254d3/Slide9.JPG" /> https://working-landscapes.com/Pipe-Up-1 Thu, 05 Oct 2023 14:18:10 +0000 Working Landscapes Lab https://working-landscapes.com/Pipe-Up-1 <img width="3300" height="1908" width_o="3300" height_o="1908" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c7504a34721b55c2b2cb1b769e9679d0e2fa79f2d0a8dc7fa15431058f2af0c8/Image-4_crop.jpg" data-mid="193258717" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c7504a34721b55c2b2cb1b769e9679d0e2fa79f2d0a8dc7fa15431058f2af0c8/Image-4_crop.jpg" /> PIPE UP! Location Hotel IndigoColumbus, Indiana Project TeamBLDS: Tameka Baba, Forbes Lipschitz, Shelby Doyle &amp; Halina SteinerA vast network of buried pipes moves water throughout the built environment. These pipes can also transport excess nutrients, dissolved pollutants, and sediment-bound toxins to downstream water bodies, contaminating freshwater sources and impairing the health and vitality of aquatic ecosystems. As an installation, PIPE UP! makes visible the subterranean water infrastructure that supports urban development and agricultural production, telling a visual, kinesthetic story about altered hydrologies.Composed of four site elements using off-the-shelf products, PIPE UP! is a standing field of 150 charlotte pipes topped by 700 feet of undulating tile drains. Three suspended rain clouds made of flagging tape and 12 poufs representing toxic sediment scattered across the site help to create a vibrant and tactile display of invisible infrastructure. PIPE UP! seeks to facilitate events and conversations about the future role of water in local riparian corridors and across the Mississippi River Watershed Basin FundingThe installation was part of the 2023 Exhibit Columbus: Public by Design, made possible by the Landmark Columbus Foundation. Tile drains generously donated by Baughman Tile Co. <img width="1650" height="1275" width_o="1650" height_o="1275" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b05589dd6b0feca21e0bc97b857272c20a5d66ba5df43a386ca8d02d1f80d35b/PipeUP2.jpg" data-mid="192822850" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b05589dd6b0feca21e0bc97b857272c20a5d66ba5df43a386ca8d02d1f80d35b/PipeUP2.jpg" /> <img width="1650" height="1275" width_o="1650" height_o="1275" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/db652da8e9a4d076bb0d1348df45eda215892b8321b298298902168d26560399/PipeUP3.jpg" data-mid="192822823" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/db652da8e9a4d076bb0d1348df45eda215892b8321b298298902168d26560399/PipeUP3.jpg" /> <img width="1650" height="1275" width_o="1650" height_o="1275" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0003ce24a83eff796386142eb5dfb62e62ea76f379ba505f6558925fb89bf030/PipeUP4.jpg" data-mid="192822845" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0003ce24a83eff796386142eb5dfb62e62ea76f379ba505f6558925fb89bf030/PipeUP4.jpg" /> <img width="1650" height="1275" width_o="1650" height_o="1275" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cf8a91ab6ddcdcd4f7238d57a63d622674c0913cc3c64535b765b868778ac3dd/PipeUP5.jpg" data-mid="192822861" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cf8a91ab6ddcdcd4f7238d57a63d622674c0913cc3c64535b765b868778ac3dd/PipeUP5.jpg" /> <img width="1650" height="1275" width_o="1650" height_o="1275" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/86b1da02d1b1a2029466c75c9330bbf3efa0d314803a843464f1cf2380f205f1/PipeUP6.jpg" data-mid="192822865" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/86b1da02d1b1a2029466c75c9330bbf3efa0d314803a843464f1cf2380f205f1/PipeUP6.jpg" /> Image credit: Hadley Fruits&nbsp; https://working-landscapes.com/Privy-2 Thu, 05 Oct 2023 14:18:11 +0000 Working Landscapes Lab https://working-landscapes.com/Privy-2 <img width="1575" height="565" width_o="1575" height_o="565" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/acb661ea65e2e3a38b31e1c4ed4b7984ea684defcaaf0e594f3abafa3247092e/privy2pano.jpg" data-mid="193000752" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/acb661ea65e2e3a38b31e1c4ed4b7984ea684defcaaf0e594f3abafa3247092e/privy2pano.jpg" /> Privy 2 Biosolids &amp; You Team Forbes Lipschitz, Justin Diles, Nick Kawa Location The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio Date September 1, 2019 - May 1, 2020 We rarely think about what happens when we flush the toilet. Infrastructure enables our collective blindness to the byproducts of our bodily lives. As scholar Gay Hawkins argues, the urban sewage system is a “public secret,” aided by modernist infrastructure that shields people from knowing where their “shit ends up.”1 In the United States today, urban sewage is pumped through some 740,000 miles of buried pipes to remotely sited treatment plants at the city’s edge.2 We are only reminded of the existence of this vast underground river when it inevitably fails. In cities with combined sewer systems, even modest rain events can result in raw sewage overflowing untreated into waterways. Meanwhile, as excessive nutrients from such overflow events leads to eutrophication and algal blooms in urban waterways, rural agricultural areas increasingly rely on chemical fertilizer amendments manufactured with fossil fuels. Because modern wastewater infrastructure is hidden from public view, the ecological problems it poses remain largely unchallenged. Though design has facilitated this paradigm of infrastructural obscurity, it can also intervene to make it more visible. This research and public-outreach project aims to shed light on the processes by which human “waste” can be transformed into an agricultural resource. Led by a transdisciplinary team of faculty, students and public sector professionals, the project investigated attempts in the United States, and central Ohio specifically, to “close the loop” in nutrient cycling by turning human excreta into a viable agricultural fertilizer through the use of biosolids (treated and/or composted sanitation wastes). The team asked how visualization tools and landscape installations can make visible the complex and largely hidden process of waste transformation. The project had two main components. The first was a zine developed collaboratively by students and faculty from Anthropology and Landscape Architecture. Infrastructural Digest: Issue #2 featured 8 short essays on “waste,” with topics ranging from the history of night soil use in China to the regulatory constraints preventing farms that apply biosolids from receiving organic certifications. The second consisted of a temporary public landscape installation constructed by the team in 2019. The installation, titled "Privy 2: Biosolids &amp; You," featured an architectural pavilion, made with recycled material, sited in a field of corn fertilized with biosolids from the City of Columbus. Visitors to the installation could sit on a bench (a three-seated menage-a-toilet) while taking in large format graphics that visualized nutrient cycles—from flush to fertilize. These elements highlighted how human “waste” can be transformed into agricultural and architectural resources. Rather than attempting to cover up or sanitize the smelly reality of biosolids, the garden as sensorium embraces tensions of stench and scent, disgust and pleasure. This installation was originally sited on the campus of the Ohio State University and was subsequently moved to a permanent location at the City of Columbus Water Treatment Plant. <img width="1935" height="1089" width_o="1935" height_o="1089" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cc475645ad25290140047fc7b8c64cb2a4893b573b26e803fa94be6e02330c82/Privy2-53.jpg" data-mid="192859979" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cc475645ad25290140047fc7b8c64cb2a4893b573b26e803fa94be6e02330c82/Privy2-53.jpg" /> <img width="1980" height="1320" width_o="1980" height_o="1320" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b49dfe83b91a601d2795979b487995164f122c8c541c51a2fdc53aaff2907ca1/-.jpg" data-mid="192859978" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b49dfe83b91a601d2795979b487995164f122c8c541c51a2fdc53aaff2907ca1/-.jpg" /> <img width="1961" height="1314" width_o="1961" height_o="1314" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f6da3323a03f88a854a23db7314bcd6bc63b8721fc02ab1e610a1285f1f9e534/Privy2-54.jpg" data-mid="192859939" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f6da3323a03f88a854a23db7314bcd6bc63b8721fc02ab1e610a1285f1f9e534/Privy2-54.jpg" /> <img width="1993" height="2444" width_o="1993" height_o="2444" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a8e820d38cc24d3f83514987a9da6c1240fc39fa2c39a605a3a3e2c05ba6411e/privy2_construction.jpg" data-mid="193000561" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a8e820d38cc24d3f83514987a9da6c1240fc39fa2c39a605a3a3e2c05ba6411e/privy2_construction.jpg" /> https://working-landscapes.com/By-the-Numbers-1 Thu, 05 Oct 2023 21:21:36 +0000 Working Landscapes Lab https://working-landscapes.com/By-the-Numbers-1 <img width="1130" height="716" width_o="1130" height_o="716" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d2488a34953978ba1e81df3d8c254d2bfcf3b9bce66a5bc7d01e37733324cf72/Field-Futures_3.jpg" data-mid="192860090" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d2488a34953978ba1e81df3d8c254d2bfcf3b9bce66a5bc7d01e37733324cf72/Field-Futures_3.jpg" /> By the NumbersNew Principles for AgriCultural Representation Publication Lipschitz, Forbes "By the Numbers: New Principles for AgriCultural Representation" Journal of Landscape Architecture. 17 (1), 2022, pp 48-57. Location Banvard Gallery Columbus, Ohio Date March 4, 2020 — March 27, 2020. As American agricultural production has mechanized and cities have grown, fewer and fewer people experience firsthand the planting, growing and harvesting of crops. City dwellers drive through and fly over the working landscape, observing its inner workings from a distance. From this vantage point, the cultural and ecological dynamics occurring in agriculture can be likened to the unseen landscapes described by the artist Paul Nash: “They belong to the world that lies, visibly about us. They are unseen merely because they are not perceived; only in that way can they be regarded as invisible.” 1 As a result, the public is generally unaware of the complexity of the agricultural systems that are fundamental to food production. New forms of process-based and participatory representation could challenge this paradigm by embracing the ways in which these working landscapes are constructed, maintained and experienced. The work presented herein explores a novel approach to agricultural landscape representation: the paint-by-numbers tradition is used as a unique participatory method for representing the agroecological complexity of the Midwestern Corn Belt, with the goal of inviting the public to take a closer look at this productive landscape. The farmlands of the Midwestern Corn Belt constitute an ideal case study for developing such a form of agricultural representation. The untrained observer can drive through the fields of Iowa, Indiana and western Ohio and perceive nothing other than a monotonous flatness. Yet behind the seemingly simple landscape lies a complex operational logic. In the highly ordered fields of the Midwest, corn and soybeans are planted, fertilized and harvested with GPS-controlled equipment. Data on past yield, soil quality and cultivar requirements dictate the density and arrangement of seeds. Much like an instruction-based artwork, abstract guidelines, created off-site, dictate the form and composition of the agricultural field. To borrow the language of Sol Lewitt, commodity production becomes “the machine that makes the art.” Nevertheless, although the commodity fields of the Corn Belt are highly standardized, they also exhibit emergent properties. Though guided by similar management regimens and spatial technologies, no two agricultural fields are identical. The productive landscape exhibits biological and phenomenological variability within and across the gridded field. Crops rotate between seasons and grow at different rates, while forest, perennial prairie and wetland plants colonize the field margins. Like the pixelated paintings by the conceptual artist Charles Gaines,” the system has never changed, the outcome is always different.” 2 Yet all of this complexity is hidden in plain sight from the casual observer. The paint-by-numbers system is particularly well suited to introducing the public to the various intricacies of the agricultural landscape, both because of its interactive aspect and the similarity of its detailed process to the regimentation of commodity production. The method has wide appeal: when the paint-by-numbers kit debuted in the mid-20th century, proponents praised it for “democratizing” art, although critics derided it as a “metaphor for the commercialization and mechanization of culture.”3 Applying this method of representation to the working landscape is also particularly apt because numbered paintings embrace the twin principles of standardization and commodification, two defining characteristics of twenty-first century agriculture. Notwithstanding the dictates of the process, however, within the regimented confines of the numbered canvas painters can blend, shape and add texture to the image, possibly even continuing the landscape out onto the frame. Large format canvases can immerse the users in the image, inviting them to get lost in the details. By breaking down a relatively simple image into an elaborate mosaic of shapes and numbers, the paint-by-numbers canvas draws the painter into the spatial complexity latent in the productive landscape. Employing standard paint-by-numbers techniques, the following interactive exhibit seeks to tell a dynamic and tactile story about an otherwise overlooked and underappreciated landscape. Read the full publication here.&nbsp; <img width="1130" height="800" width_o="1130" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aa1a9f0c824616e44dab72ce67aa23cf7c71d5b499891bb6c6647403d6f0080f/Field-Futures_2.jpg" data-mid="192860306" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aa1a9f0c824616e44dab72ce67aa23cf7c71d5b499891bb6c6647403d6f0080f/Field-Futures_2.jpg" /> <img width="1130" height="753" width_o="1130" height_o="753" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ab6993a73cdf642a1dc0bc36914651e909813918da96edbcfba7c592999e8cb6/Field-Futures_4-1.jpg" data-mid="192860302" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ab6993a73cdf642a1dc0bc36914651e909813918da96edbcfba7c592999e8cb6/Field-Futures_4-1.jpg" /> <img width="1130" height="782" width_o="1130" height_o="782" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b8385c3f59fc1ee411a4cdbf5ec59949237f2375b79eaba20e410db802c82e17/Field-Futures_1.jpg" data-mid="192860309" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b8385c3f59fc1ee411a4cdbf5ec59949237f2375b79eaba20e410db802c82e17/Field-Futures_1.jpg" /> Notes Paul Nash, 'Unseen landscapes' Country Life, May 1938. Charles Gaines, ‘Numbers and Trees: Palm Canyon, Palm Trees Series 3’, https://viphauserwirth.com/online-exhibitions/charles-gaines-numbers-and-trees, accessed 8 April 2021 William L. Bird 2001). Paint by number: [how to craze that swept the nation]. New York: Princeton Architectural Press https://working-landscapes.com/The-Joy-of-Decommodification Thu, 05 Oct 2023 21:25:42 +0000 Working Landscapes Lab https://working-landscapes.com/The-Joy-of-Decommodification <img width="1998" height="1305" width_o="1998" height_o="1305" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4b3ffccbcf786ba3091a099c0181084615413b52b32f26835425424bd4f2837b/colin1.jpg" data-mid="192861053" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4b3ffccbcf786ba3091a099c0181084615413b52b32f26835425424bd4f2837b/colin1.jpg" /> The Joy of DecommodificationA Cartographic Cookbook Editor Forbes Lipschitz Student Contributors Claire Conner Makayla Davis Adrian Farhat Kristiana Gresham Jack Gruber Emily Loomis Colin Martinez Molly McCahanRoshni NairMann PatelMarley RennerBrad Reuschling Agriculture in the United States is steeped in a legacy of settler colonialism and slavery. Conventional farming systems in the era of late stage capitalism facilitate the exploitation of marginalized peoples and the degradation of regional ecosystems, while contributing substantially to climate change. Food, however, can be a powerful anchor to construct identity, commemorate history and resist threats of cultural erasure. It is within this context that cooking is a cultural, political and ecological act. Each meal we prepare connects a global network of corporate driven food production, processing and distribution infrastructure. Each food choice we make can either tacitly endorse or challenge these existing power structures and systems. The product of an upper level landscape architecture studio completed the fall of 2020, The Joy of Decommodification combines maps and recipes to reveal and challenge the unjust and unsustainable legacy of agricultural commodification in the United States. The work was featured in in the July 2021 print issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine. <img width="1973" height="1309" width_o="1973" height_o="1309" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/118bcadcfaf906d6107aac6257cffaade4ced12f6866d42d7fe7dcc6dfd689e2/colin2.jpg" data-mid="192861049" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/118bcadcfaf906d6107aac6257cffaade4ced12f6866d42d7fe7dcc6dfd689e2/colin2.jpg" /> <img width="1973" height="1317" width_o="1973" height_o="1317" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1ea852b26440cf345aa2fba3bbad717477b545b42064a8f74f02653c6751841d/molly1.jpg" data-mid="192861047" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1ea852b26440cf345aa2fba3bbad717477b545b42064a8f74f02653c6751841d/molly1.jpg" /> <img width="1998" height="1308" width_o="1998" height_o="1308" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/13ff1dda72d01c9ae16a191325e319108c5c29f669d70ef76bac4a3087805551/jack1.jpg" data-mid="192861051" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/13ff1dda72d01c9ae16a191325e319108c5c29f669d70ef76bac4a3087805551/jack1.jpg" /> <img width="1988" height="1313" width_o="1988" height_o="1313" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/562f237dca8440f5909d66fc785dfbb8f53d616c4a6c882607752251198d169a/claire2.jpg" data-mid="192861344" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/562f237dca8440f5909d66fc785dfbb8f53d616c4a6c882607752251198d169a/claire2.jpg" /> <img width="1985" height="1305" width_o="1985" height_o="1305" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e35c461b345ca5fa83da6f73185b203a32726c68ff26d741f7cb797f595ea764/colin3.jpg" data-mid="192861045" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e35c461b345ca5fa83da6f73185b203a32726c68ff26d741f7cb797f595ea764/colin3.jpg" /> <img width="1985" height="1312" width_o="1985" height_o="1312" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3ce8abbe2a10b722d4ee66f3ffc8e4053ca2cdd4c9cc6489ac368ac7755484ba/colin4.jpg" data-mid="192861044" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3ce8abbe2a10b722d4ee66f3ffc8e4053ca2cdd4c9cc6489ac368ac7755484ba/colin4.jpg" /> <img width="1988" height="1308" width_o="1988" height_o="1308" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8a8ab6ae205a4859d4e8d95d46cb9e98825e0d52e79c50796dee0b9a5a36f8cb/claire1.jpg" data-mid="192861042" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8a8ab6ae205a4859d4e8d95d46cb9e98825e0d52e79c50796dee0b9a5a36f8cb/claire1.jpg" /> https://working-landscapes.com/Pictorial-Cartography Thu, 05 Oct 2023 21:41:32 +0000 Working Landscapes Lab https://working-landscapes.com/Pictorial-Cartography <img width="569" height="568" width_o="569" height_o="568" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6e85e03cc525aaa98b6724efc784f18046f76942e5e5375c1d6f4670311634a3/pictorialcart1-copy.jpg" data-mid="192861890" border="0" data-scale="78" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/569/i/6e85e03cc525aaa98b6724efc784f18046f76942e5e5375c1d6f4670311634a3/pictorialcart1-copy.jpg" /> Pictorial Cartography and Digital PrintmakingExperiments in Representing the Working Landscape Publication Chapter in Conceptual Landscapes: Critical Perspectives in the Earliest Stages of Design. Bussiere, S. (Ed.), London, New York: Routledge. Abstract In the Spring of 2019, an upper level graduate and undergraduate design studio in the landscape architecture section of the Knowlton School at the Ohio State University experimented with new ways to represent the working landscape. The class worked collaboratively to re-envision the productive landscapes of the Great Plains in the face of climate change. The territorial scale of the project site necessarily required mapping as the primary design tool. Seeking to balance the scale of such a territorial design project with the cultural realities on the ground, the class experimented with pictorial cartography and relief printing. Pictorial cartography was chosen for its narrative potential. By combining map, image and text and manipulating scale, the pictorial map tells a visual story and captures a sense of place. Relief printing was chosen as a production technique because of its strong history in the Great Plains. In the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration commissioned thousands of artists to create posters and prints. Because materials and resources were scarce, the affordability of relief printmaking encouraged its widespread adoption in the region. The studio sought to revive both techniques as representational strategies particularly well suited to a contemporary territorial design project. <img width="696" height="586" width_o="696" height_o="586" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a33a13c81ccd12cd9b1ebf1a9be1ced3565d81d7e1e3151d4decfb41fe2133e5/pictorialcart1.jpg" data-mid="192861897" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/696/i/a33a13c81ccd12cd9b1ebf1a9be1ced3565d81d7e1e3151d4decfb41fe2133e5/pictorialcart1.jpg" /> <img width="518" height="566" width_o="518" height_o="566" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/070ccbe5828f9f58b1726cec48002788c371b7d8209630c201cb4a95736f0f39/pictorialcart2.jpg" data-mid="192862124" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/518/i/070ccbe5828f9f58b1726cec48002788c371b7d8209630c201cb4a95736f0f39/pictorialcart2.jpg" /> https://working-landscapes.com/Field-Futures Fri, 06 Oct 2023 13:21:52 +0000 Working Landscapes Lab https://working-landscapes.com/Field-Futures <img width="806" height="538" width_o="806" height_o="538" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5e2bc3a9eb6415f5998d25e6f9332e5d4eb3fad167e301bd46cf9de5b3d9bb52/Field-Futures-2-22-9_SM.jpg" data-mid="192919552" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/806/i/5e2bc3a9eb6415f5998d25e6f9332e5d4eb3fad167e301bd46cf9de5b3d9bb52/Field-Futures-2-22-9_SM.jpg" /> Field Futures - Ohio A Game-Based Engagement Tool for Rural Resilience Planning Team PI: Forbes Lipschitz Co-I: Billy Fleming, Shoshanah Inwood, Sarah Karle, Brett Milligan, Zoe Plakias, Christine Sprunger, Peter Summerlin. Design research suggests that serious games and simulation based engagement tools can be effective ways to engage diverse stakeholders in complex problem solving. In serious games, concepts are abstracted through gamification and combined with game elements to create immersive scenes for experiential learning. Psychologist Elizabeth Boyle Notes that serious games are useful in facilitating “learning that is active, experiential, situated, problem-based, and provides immediate feedback.” As extreme weather promises to reshape agricultural landscapes in the coming century, this workshop sought to identify opportunities for serious game design to facilitate rural resilience planning. Though the participatory research-design process began with a focus on Ohio, it will generate findings that help us better understand the opportunities for and barriers to landscape architectural engagement with production agriculture in the Midwest region and across North-America. FundingSeed Grant from the Initiative for Food and AgriCultural Transformation <img width="1605" height="968" width_o="1605" height_o="968" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6e9804dcc34dfdab9f7a0da91566e0463b5bfa05ccc254f11e5bd19579712404/Field-Futures-2-22-5_sm.jpg" data-mid="192919571" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6e9804dcc34dfdab9f7a0da91566e0463b5bfa05ccc254f11e5bd19579712404/Field-Futures-2-22-5_sm.jpg" /> <img width="1521" height="1009" width_o="1521" height_o="1009" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7baa5d4676b700c74d5f849680a136a749d01365efe9969fe9eacae3347bc978/Field-Futures-2-22-4_sm.jpg" data-mid="192919572" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7baa5d4676b700c74d5f849680a136a749d01365efe9969fe9eacae3347bc978/Field-Futures-2-22-4_sm.jpg" /> https://working-landscapes.com/On-the-Pond Thu, 05 Oct 2023 21:47:48 +0000 Working Landscapes Lab https://working-landscapes.com/On-the-Pond <img width="3992" height="1709" width_o="3992" height_o="1709" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a1a733157e1ac94862c3724b11ea94d4e60a82ab4db5cb01f12c51959f550915/Idled_Pond_Planview.jpg" data-mid="193008289" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a1a733157e1ac94862c3724b11ea94d4e60a82ab4db5cb01f12c51959f550915/Idled_Pond_Planview.jpg" /> On the PondThe Landscape of Catfish Farming in the Delta Team Forbes Lipschitz, Justine Holzman Location Delta Cultural Center, Helena-West Helena, Arkansas Dates April 1, 2017 - July 4, 2017 Abstract This exhibit represented the context and ecology of catfish farming in the Deep South through illustrative, informative, and regionally specific landscape representations. Inspired by local landscape painters, historical research and field studies, the exhibit consisted of a combination of photography, maps, models and digital drawings that revealed the complex landscape of catfish farming in the Delta. The research was featured in the cover story of the October 2016 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine, reaching more than 60,000 readers and distributed at the 2016 Annual ASLA Meeting and Expo. Original artwork was featured in Aquaculture Landscapes: Fish Farms and the Public Realm by Michael Ezban and select pieces were exhibited in group shows in Columbus, Ohio and Urbana, Illinois. Funding The research was made possible by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. <img width="2400" height="1650" width_o="2400" height_o="1650" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/74c6a35346698de0e22c11a75cd3377972372a362d36d7dddfcd5f5cbb1bfa76/catfish_waterfowl.jpg" data-mid="192862424" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/74c6a35346698de0e22c11a75cd3377972372a362d36d7dddfcd5f5cbb1bfa76/catfish_waterfowl.jpg" /> <img width="3214" height="2485" width_o="3214" height_o="2485" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/06dd4bf2f8b9620250e73540564e083d42f2f458934413b9227e35e13ceee1da/Title_On-the-Pond_Holzman-and-Lipschitz_edit.jpg" data-mid="192862527" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/06dd4bf2f8b9620250e73540564e083d42f2f458934413b9227e35e13ceee1da/Title_On-the-Pond_Holzman-and-Lipschitz_edit.jpg" /> <img width="1213" height="1522" width_o="1213" height_o="1522" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2e1b0e866012eff88008ade1705e62c997da53bcc7c58cea377cda599511015d/onthepond1.jpg" data-mid="192862507" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2e1b0e866012eff88008ade1705e62c997da53bcc7c58cea377cda599511015d/onthepond1.jpg" /> <img width="4702" height="3055" width_o="4702" height_o="3055" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/da5abcc9217cdbfe0d30699b8819c09f1abf615b104159e64ce96c83ba20753a/Mapping-the-Delta_On-the-Pond_Holzman-and-Lipschitz.jpg" data-mid="192862539" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/da5abcc9217cdbfe0d30699b8819c09f1abf615b104159e64ce96c83ba20753a/Mapping-the-Delta_On-the-Pond_Holzman-and-Lipschitz.jpg" /> <img width="3340" height="2400" width_o="3340" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1f02efdeddc4586e1a00e01839945dab8494c9ef30704e5efda2783b41ae4e21/Figure2.jpg" data-mid="192925102" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1f02efdeddc4586e1a00e01839945dab8494c9ef30704e5efda2783b41ae4e21/Figure2.jpg" />