Design's Diaspora
The sixth symposium in the Landscape Futures Initiative series, Design's Diaspora,
was hosted by the Department of Landscape Architecture at University of California,
Davis on October 28-30, 2005. This symposium brought together leading thinkers,
practitioners and artists to explore design responses to movements of people on a
global scale including tourism, migration, and diaspora driven by poverty and
political instability, and addresse the implication of shifting social dynamics
for the design and planning professions.
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Remaking Metropolis: Global Environmental
Challenges of the Urban Landscape
The fifth symposium in the series, Remaking Metropolis: Global Environmental Challenges
of the Urban Landscape, was held in Tempe on April 6-8, 2005, and hosted by the School
of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at Arizona State University. The symposium
included discussions of global environmental challenges, particularly those relevant
to emerging advances in biotechnology, the influences of culture and ecology, and the
challenges of the ever-advancing middle landscape of sprawl and emerging approaches to
remaking the urban landscape.
Places of Power:
Economic and Political Driving Forces of Landscape Change in the 21st Century
Places of Power, the fourth symposium in the Landscape Futures Initiative, was held in
Chicago on September 10-11, 2004, and hosted by the University of Illinois at Champaign-
Urbana. The agenda highlighted speakers who addressed the economic and political driving
forces of landscape change, and included social scientists who addressed the landscape
implications of real estate markets, regional trade, global financial institutions,
social capital formation, urban and metropolitan politics, labor movements, institutional
dynamics, and international landscape policies. Discussants from the fields of environmental
design and planning linked these political and economic forces with emerging design
challenges.
Connectivity and Landscape Change
Connectivity and Landscape Change, the third LFI symposium, took place January 30-31, 2004,
at the University of Texas in Austin. It is the third symposium in a series of seven
exploring the drivers of global landscape change and leadership in landscape change. Six
sessions explored the following topics: (1) Connecting Ecology, Landscape, and Design; (2)
Connecting Communities and Information Networks; (3) Connecting Communities and Spatial Data
Visualization; (4) ArchNet: Connecting an International Design Community; (5) Connecting
Knowledge and Community; and (6) Connecting Information and Knowledge of Place.
Culture and Technology: Limits of Landscape
The second symposium in the series, Culture and Technology Symposium > Limits of
Landscape, hosted by the University of Virginia (UVA) in Charlottesville, was held
September 4-6, 2003, and explored how the landscape serves as a cultural image that
represents the structure and symbolism of its surroundings.
World Urbanization + Landscape Architecture
The first Landscape Futures Initiative symposium was held April 5-6, 2002, and hosted by
the University of Pennsylvania Department of Landscape Architecture. This symposium focused
on future directions for landscape architecture in the face of contemporary urbanization.
Distinguished speakers drawn from the fields of urban design, planning, architecture, and
landscape architecture summarized specific trends and characteristics of modern urbanization
around the world while suggesting future directions for landscape architects.
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