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Graduate Program Director: Suzanne Mathew
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RISD Landscape Architecture exists at the intersection between ecological systems and built environments; through creative practice, landscape architects critically reflect on ethical, social and ecological processes pertaining to the effects of climate crisis, urbanization, colonization and environmental degradation. This year, eighteen students developed thesis work across two cohorts. One cohort pursued the Landscape Architecture thesis, generating research expansive in theme and location. These projects investigate ecologies and entanglements animated by place, context, history, and land relations, spanning abandoned industrial sites and traditional agricultural terraces, cultural landscape preservation and interspecies collaborations, deep geologic unconformities and vertiginous techno-futures. In a parallel cohort, six students developed year-long explorations through the Sustainability Design Lab, an immersive sequence centering a single material deeply connected to the geologic and ecological character of the New England region. This year, student work explores wood and the woods, centering craft, material culture, and landscapes of production and extraction in interdisciplinary investigations. Each thesis project, across cohort and topic, allows the concept of site to expand fantastically beyond geographic bounds, weaving together systems thinking, political ecology, and more-than-human relationships.
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