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Open Space 2100 Charrette

5th Pacific Rim Participatory Community Design Conference
(Re)constructing Communitie, Seattle 2004

EVENTSCAPE [WINTER 2006] Department of Landscape Architecture \| Quarterly Newsletter UPCOMING EVENTS Seattle Open Space 2100: The Department of Landscape Architecture invites you to participate in the Green Futures Charrette Feb. 3 and 4, and to attend lectures by renowned scholars and practitioners speaking on the design, sustainability, and equity of urban open spaces and green infrastructure. Our Department is joining with city leaders, professionals and citizens to create a 100-year vision plan for Seattle 's open space system in a 2-day design charrette at the South Lake Union Armory. Each charrette team is composed of landscape architects, planners, architects, developers, artists, engineers, ecologists, citizens, and our students–will work together to envision livable, healthy urban watersheds and neighborhoods for the next century. Visit http://www.open2100.org for details about lectures and events, and to register for the charrette.
DEPARTMENT NEWS National Planning Award given to CAUP Interdisciplinary Studios. Students from an interdisciplinary landscape architecture and urban planning studio have won one of only two National Student Awards given by the American Planning Association for their project, "Pioneering Palmer's Future: Strategies for Managing Growth." The student team, Alison Maitland Scheetz, Dan Staley and Joshua Curtis, presented recommendations that addressed growth management, downtown revitalization, and landscape preservation for an historic Alaskan town, drawing from work by students in the Fall 2004 Alaska studio taught by professors Nancy Rottle and Frank Westerlund and teaching assistant Eric Noll.quality on a landscape scale. STUDENTS NEWS
Study Abroad in Japan : MLA students Gina Coffman and Christine Harrington spent the autumn quarter at Chiba University in Japan on student exchange scholarships. During her quarter long study at Chiba University on the outskirts of Tokyo , Gina completed a graduate studio that focused on the preservation of one of Tokyo Bay ’s few remaining tidal flats. She also attended a language class and participated in classes in Architecture and Japanese Gardens . Gina investigated various independent interests such as green roof technology and landscape materials. There were opportunities to travel to the island of Shikoku and participate in field trips to Nikko , Yokohama , Kyoto and Osaka . As a wrap-up to her stay she had the opportunity to do an internship at the landscape architecture firm Studio Site-on-Site where she assisted with project research, model building and document creation. Look for Christine’s update in the next issue. Meanwhile, check out her blog.		Gifu Yoro Garden of Reversible Destiny: The object of the park is to disorient and discombobulate the visitor(Gina Coffman) At Sento Gosho, Gina and Chiba students experienced firsthand the details of labor that go into the maintenance of traditional Japanese gardens.
FACULTY NEWS Kristina Hill is on sabbatical winter and spring of 2006. She'll be finishing her book on landscape urbanism in the Pacific Northwest with the University of Washington Press , and traveling to Berlin and Scandinavia for part of that time to continue her comparative studies of ecological urban design. Jeff Hou received the Internationalizing UW Undergraduate Curriculum Award from the Office of Undergraduate Education. The award will support a cultural landscape design studio this fall focusing on design in an ethnic neighborhood. He and Julie Johnson are currently working on a project as part of Landscape Architecture Foundation’s Land and Community Design Case Study Series to examine design and socio-ecological functions of urban community gardens. Lynne Manzo continues her research on the redevelopment of a 569-unit public housing site in White Center . This work explores residents; housing needs and relocation concerns as units are demolished and rebuilt through HUD's HOPE VI program. This past spring, the research won the Dean's Faculty Award for a work in progress. She is currently writing articles for publication that summarize the findings of this research. Nancy Rottle is co-leading "Open Space Seattle: 2100, Designing Seattle 's Green Network for the Next Century," and integrating the Regional and Neighborhood Design studios with the upcoming Green Futures Charrette. She is writing a book featuring three environmental learning centers in the Pacific Northwest , also supported by the Landscape Architecture Foundation as part of LAF's Land and Community Design Case Study Series. Chair, Fritz Wagner has been appointed as the Interim Dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning.
ALUMNI NEWS Amy Tanner, MLA 04 is Community Planning Director at Urban Ecology, a small non-profit that does community design and planning in low-income neighborhoods in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her most recent work involves helping residents in an ethnically diverse and under-served neighborhood in Oakland improve their parks and playgrounds. She lives in San Francisco with her husband Peter Khoury (married in September 2005). Shoji Kaneko, MLA 05 is staying in Seattle to explore the profession of landscape architecture in the United States . He works at Gustafson Guthrie Nichol Ltd, based in Seattle . Since June 2005, he has been involved in various landscape architecture and urban design projects and is currently working on the design for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s new headquarters in Seattle . Shoji was the winner of 2005 ASLA Honor Award for General Design for his graduate thesis.		Oakland CA : Amy on site with summer youth interns and California’s First Lady Maria Schriver in Oakland
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