Mla Students Tour Downtown Greenville, SC
"Landscape, Remembrance, and Healing: Paintings by Rich Panico" Exhibit Opening and Artist's Lecture
As a medical practitioner, yogi, and artist, Rich Panico has a deep and multi-faceted understanding of the human condition. Rich's current interest in art and medicine addresses the propensity of our species to turn the inevitable human experiences of pain and loss into suffering, which, if not understood and engaged in wisely, leads to the acquisition of co-morbid (the simultaneous [...]
East Georgia State College Master Plan Process - Second Year MLA
Over the past four months the second year MLA class has been working with their professors to develop a Campus Master Plan for East Georgia State College (EGSC). The collaborative efforts, real world clients, and exploration of a project from formative research to final design, all came together to provide us with our most real world design experience yet. East Georgia [...]
Student Reaction to Thomas Rainer Lecture
Thomas Rainer, MLA '02, recently came back to the CED to give a lecture on "Planting in a Post-Wild World." Revolutionary to students and professors alike, this rebellious approach to planting design can make for more complex and ambitious planting plans. An expertise that is often neglected in the profession of landscape architecture, Rainer reminded CED faculty and students alike [...]
Melanie Bowerman Joins CED Alumni in Atlanta on Urban Food Forest Effort
Melanie Bowerman, a third year MLA student from California, recently presented to Atlanta residents and stakeholders on urban edible forests. Speaking at the Urban Food Forest at Browns Mill community design meeting in the Lakewood neighborhood, Melanie's talk focused on the meeting theme, "What Could Be On Our Food Forest," and provided case studies that she has researched for her [...]
MLA Students Make a Visit to East Georgia State College
Earlier this month the second year MLA's made a site visit to East Georgia State College (EGSC) in Swainsboro, Georgia, where they will be developing a campus master plan. This project will continue to hone the class's design skills, and will also give the students a chance to have a deep and lasting impact on their community. As an access institution, EGSC [...]
CED News Spring 2017
MLA Trip to Wormsloe for Eco-Restoration Studies
On the weekend of January 13th Professor Jon Calabria's Eco-Restoration class traveled down to the Georgia Barrier Islands to stay at UGA's campus at Wormsloe, near Savannah, Georgia. The purpose of the trip was to check on several restoration projects that had been set up the previous year: an experiment in the establishment of long leaf pine, a project to create [...]
Students Develop Photography Skills with Professor David Spooner
Professor David Spooner led a landscape photography class in fall. Graduate and undergraduate students produced some impressive final projects, which have been on display in the glass case of the Owens Library. This posting includes images students noted as their favorite pieces from the class.