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The Land Art Generator Initiative:Designing with Renewable Energy Landscape Initiatives

OVERVIEWThe Land Art Generator Initiative Design Competition has helped spawn collaborative design proposals amongst multidisciplinary teams across the globe. With competition sites based in Dubai, Freshkills Park in New York, and Copenhagen, the outcomes from the competition go beyond coneptual ideals to education iniatives, exhibits and realized projects.

What is the future role for landscape architects in the renewable energy sector? How can landscapes be better understood as renewable energy conductors? This session showcases project submittals for the LAGI Design Competition, as well as their sub-sequent development into built projects and education tools. Additionally, the ses-sion posits the landsacape architect’s role in the energy sector, taking into account political and economical action.

Fresh Hills, 2012 LAGI Competition Entry: Matthew Rosenberg, M-RAD

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1. Provide a series of perspectives for different ways in which renewable energy sturctures have been proposed to work in tandem with landscapes.

2. Understand the opportunities for how landscape architects can position themselves as valuable voices in the energy sector.

3. Develop an understanding about renewable energy types with adaptable characteristics to landscape as a medium (brownfield, desert, coast).

4. Learn about strategies for implementing renewable energy projects through partnerships, organizations, and non-profits.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Fresh Hills, 2012 LAGI Competition Entry: Matthew Rosenberg, M-RAD

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1. Introduction

2. LAGI Competition Backgrounda. Competition organizationb. Dubai, New York, Copenhagenc. Outcomes

3. Collaboration leading to Implementationa. Work with LAGI

i. Competition juryii. Gathering climate data iii. LAGI Partnerships

b. Future work i. Hollywood Park in Los Angeles

4. From Vision to Realizationa. Wind Nest in Pittsburgh by Trevor Lee of Suprafutures

i. Performative vs. Experiential aspectsii. Socio-spatial relations

b. Process

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

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Wind Nest, 2012 LAGI Competition Entry and installation diagrams: Trevor Lee, Suprafutures

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5. Dwelling on Earth/Geoversiv Reframinga. Designing better analyses

i. Design matters for the built environmentii. Design matters for our relationship to the ecological webii. Design matters for our intellectual relationship to our exchange environment

b. Hunting the paradigm shifti. Evolution of remote sensing/satellite communicationii. Knowing means we are creating our climate futureiii. What citizens can do to design a better and more livable world

c. Policy and how it defies convention (REMI)i. The new paradigm is within our reachii. What changes and why that is goodiii. Global-scale market failure reversed via ecological, economic design

d. Where technology is goingi. Nano-scale, everywhere-active, always-on solar PVi. Grid diffusion: deliberate oversupply to ease strain on storage, resourcesi. Tri-mode energy use: generation, consumption, storage (ref: Tesla/EV)

6. Roundtable Discussion

7. Questions

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Shifting Algae Forest, 2012 LAGI Competition Entry: Jessica Wolff, Chai Pattamasattayasonthi, Pamela Ritchot, Abhishek Sharma

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PARTICIPANTS

Joseph Robertson is the Global Strategy Director for the non-partisan non-profit Citizens’ Climate Lobby. He was CCL’s first volunteer group leader in the northeast, and now directs the PathwayToParis.org global policy and organizing effort. He is author of the 2010 report Build-ing a Green Economy: On the Economics of Carbon Pric-ing & the Transition to Clean, Renewable Fuels. Joseph is the founder and president of Geoversiv Envisioning, a climate-smart policy and tech endeavor that aims to

discover and deploy the ingredients of a clean future of global abundance. He is also the creator and director of the HotSpring Network for brainstorming and collabora-tive problem-solving, and a strategic content curator for Lucid NYC event series. While on faculty at Villanova Uni-versity, he created the GreenNOVAtion online community and the ClimateTalks.info roundtables. He is an emeritus faculty member of the Villanova Center for Energy and Environment Education.

Trevor is the founding Partner of SUPRAFUTURES, work-ing with Land Art Generator Initiative to build WINDNEST in Pittsburgh, PA. Trevor also works full time with OLIN in Philadelphia as the Manager of Visual Communications. In his previous position as Associate at James Corner Field Operations, he led the concept phase of The High Line section 3 and the winning competition entry for Chi-

cago’s Navy Pier. Prior to his working with JCFO, Trevor completed a two year fellowship with UPSTATE: at Syra-cuse University’s School of Architecture and is a visiting lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania. Trevor was one of four finalists for the Rome Prize in Landscape Architec-ture for 2013.

Jessica Wolff is a designer at Reed Hilderbrand. She re-ceived her BLA from Penn State University and her MLA from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Jessica has worked in the realms of landscape architecture, planning, horticulture and urban design for the past 10 years. Her thesis work concerning former coal mining landscapes as

renewable energy sites has been extensively published and presented. She organized a team of global profes-sionals to produce a submission for the 2012 Land Art Generator Initiative competition which was published in the competition publication, Regenerative Infrastruc-tures.

Matthew is the founder and president of M-RAD, an international award-winning design studio that looks to re-conceptualize architecture through social and envi-ronmental research. Mr. Rosenberg is a graduate of the Masters of Architecture program at the Southern Califor-nia Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles where he

received a Graduate Scholarship and was also awarded with a Selected Thesis Prize. Rosenberg also holds a Bachelor of Environmental Design in Architecture from Dalhousie University in Halifax, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction from the University of Saskatch-ewan. He also studied Architecture at McGill University in Montreal and at the Louvre in Paris.

JOSEPH ROBERTSON CITIZENS CLIMATE LOBBY

TREVOR LEE, ASLA OLIN, SUPRAFUTURES

JESSICA WOLFF, ASLA REED HILDERBRAND

MATTHEW ROSENBERG M-RAD