What’s Your Sign? The Fieldscape Fellowship at Overlook Farm is a field school program within the Landscape Architecture Program at the University of Oregon. The design-build practicum centers on creative collaboration at the Fuller Farm outside of Scranton, PA. Students are tasked with the design and fabrication of a temporary site-specific landscape installation over the course of two intensive workshops. The first workshop took place during the summer of 2024 focusing on the conceptual development and building of proof of concept work. The second studio will take place in the summer of 2025 with the design-build phase of the final site-responsive work. 

The Fieldscape Fellowship project explores folk graphics (barn hex and quilt blocks) and historic timber frame barns of Pennsylvania as cultural expressions for communicating environmental narratives relative to past, present, and future agriculture practices. The intention behind the Fieldscape Fellowship is to foster environmental education and landscape stewardship through creativity and community engagement.

An exhibition of the first phase of work, entitled What’s Your Sign is on view at the College of Design’s Lawrence Hall from October 1 to November 21 with a public reception on November 13th from 4:30 to 6:30. All are welcome.

Fieldscape Fellows:

Janessa “J” Beltran

Trevor Hattabaugh

Macie Kelley

Keith Stanley

Aidan Teppema

Sabine Winkler 

Fieldscape Fellow Instructors: 

Ian Escher Vierck

Nancy Silvers

David Buckley Borden

The Fieldscape Fellowship is fully funded by the Fuller Initiative for Productive Landscapes at the University of Oregon.