Pencils Re-up for New LAF Fellowship. I am thrilled to further develop recent collaborative work at the Fuller Initiative for Productive Landscapes and pivot my design-research practice firmly back into the landscape architecture field with a Landscape Architecture Foundation Fellowship in Innovation and Leadership. Heartfelt gratitude goes out to all the folks in the environmental design, ecological research, and interdisciplinary arts worlds that have contributed, supported, and championed the collaborative creative adventure over the last decade.
David Buckley Borden’s LAF Fellowship Research Proposal Abstract
Emergent Mutualism: Closing the Science-Communication Gap through Collaboration between Ecology and Design
David Buckley Borden’s LAF Fellowship program will identify, develop, and articulate creative environmental-communication methods, models, and frameworks to answer the question, “How can interdisciplinary science-communication be re-imagined as a collaborative design process between landscape architects and ecologists?” The landscape architect’s role as an environmental communicator and educator is certainly nothing new. However, how the profession engages the scientific research community and then collaboratively educates the general public is worthy of inquiry, critical review, and the dissemination of evidence-based practice case studies. David’s fellowship builds off his ongoing interdisciplinary collaborations with scientists at long-term ecological research sites, including the Harvard Forest in central Massachusetts and the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest in Oregon’s Western Cascades.
You can read Borden’s LAF proposal on the project webpage, and follow project development on Instagram.
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