Welcome!

Introduction Meeting • Fall 2022

Hello!

Cassandra (she/her)

Graham (he/they)

Alex (he/him)

Izzy (she/her)

What is landscape architecture + where do we fit in?

• Design of outdoor spaces and forms
• Both the ecological and aesthetic functions of landscapes and green infrastructure
• Culture, economy, aesthetic
• Living and spatial processes
• Remediation of post-industrial landscapes
• The process of community engagement and community design, and creation of public space

SCAPE Architecture

Introduction Meeting • Fall 2022

What is landscape architecture + where do we fit in?

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(ASLA)

Student Chapter of ASLA

National ASLA Adapt

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(BSLA)

Adapt

What have we done so far?

Introduction Meeting • Fall 2022

GND Design Charrette – Urban to Rural Streams

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BSLA Design Charette – Chelsea Cool

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Advocating for curriculum change

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AD HOC FACULTY COMMITTEE

• LARC faculty
• Alumni interviews
• Working towards accreditation of the BLA (Bachelor’s of Landscape Architecture) and potentially the MLA
• Letter link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uIYc9XlBk-gCouEpj8iduXL0aYL96WmNUQPK5S1jG0c/edit

Introduction Meeting • Fall 2022

Community fridge drop-offs

Introduction Meeting • Fall 2022

Our Plans for the Semester

TOPICS

• Water systems (both within Boston and oceanography)
• Maps and spatial justice
• Infrastructure and EJ
• Food systems in Boston
• Placemaking

HOW?

• Adapt member lectures
• Guest lectures
• Book club/reading groups
• Charette projects
• Outside events and trips

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Our Plans for the Semester

INSIDE NORTHEASTERN

• LARC accreditation
• Connecting with larger NU club network (Sustainability Hub, CANU, NOMAS, Terra)
• Lectures, discussions, design charrettes, reading groups

OUTSIDE OF NORTHEASTERN

• Volunteering
• Conferences
• Outside Lectures
• Alumni roundtables
• Field Trips
• Firm Crawls
• In the works: Stimson Studio, SASAKI, and more!

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Participation

• Weekly meetings (Thursdays at 6p!) in Ruggles
• Participate as much as you want and are able to
• There are opportunities to take on more responsibilities if you want
• Ask about leadership opportunities!
• We welcome and encourage you to pitch ideas to present, present your own work, tell us about events, and share anything you think is cool!

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Miss you guys

What would you like to see from Adapt?

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Field trips?

Volunteering?

Agriculture?

Botany?

Firm Crawls?

Land Back?

Stay in the loop!

• Follow @nuaslaadapt on Instagram
• Join our email list
• Keep up with newsletters (sent out Monday mornings by Graham!)
• Bookmark Notion website (bit.ly/nuaslaadapt
• From here, it’s easy to join the Slack channel we use to communicate!
• Come to meetings or join the recurring Zoom! (bit.ly/aslaadaptmeet)

Introduction Meeting • Fall 2022

Email List

Notion

Topics

• Compost
• Green Gentrification and Displacement
• Biophilia
• Boston Waterfront Resilience project Climate Ready Boston (and more from the City of Boston)
• Permaculture/Food forests
• Braiding Sweetgrass and Indigenous ecological knowledge; land back initiatives
• Livable Streets Alliance
• Climate change allocation distribution
• Phytoremediation
• Accessible, healthy design across scales
• Labor and relationship between designer/builder
• The War on Drugs and cannabis

Your ideas?

• Bio-char
• Forest farming / Indigenous practices and methods for food
• Class/dialogue roundtable
• Public transportation !!!!!!!!!
• Bike lane expansion
• Food preservation/fermentation and cultural practices related
• At home/urban practices
• Now We See Now - interrelation of biology and architecture (biophilia, biology w material implications and construction)
• “Sustainable” urban design
• Seaport ):
• Green roofs (Chicago, Boston)
• What does open space mean? To who?
• Green gentrification and how can we avoid it
• Critical ecology

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Events & Field Trips

• Food outing
• Picnic/cooking/potluck
• Visiting/Gardening at an Urban Farm
• RISD Nature Lab
• Plant ID-type field trips
• Firm crawls
• Stimson
• Sasaki
• Hiking (Middlesex Fells)
• Belle Isle Marsh
• Landscape movies
• Prison in 12 landscapes
• Fantastic fungi
• Kiss the Ground
• Northeastern Arboretum talk

Your ideas?

• Mount Auburn Cemetery
• Talks! (ISG)
• Kate Kennen phytoremediation/plant walk

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Volunteering & Community Building

• Community Fridges?
• Lifeboat
• VietAid
• Events with the Boston Society of Landscape Architects
• Saturday, September 10th event with the BSLA (on-site Chelsea Cool build creating planters, painting asphalt, and finishing the swingset!)
• 8a-12p at 212 Congress Street, Chelsea, MA
• Saturday, September 24th event with the Worcester Plant Initiative (adding native plantings to a retirement home with advisor Sara Carr!)
• 9a-12p, reach out to Graham if interested
• Hannah H., Cassandra, Hannah C.

Your ideas?

• Emerald Necklace Conservancy

Introduction Meeting • Spring 2022

Other Projects

• Casual book club/book list/recs.
• Decentralized library/lending library of landscape books people could share
• End of the year project showcase?
• Turning our meeting archive into a zine/book?

Your ideas?

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