Lecturer, Department of Landscape Architecture Research Fellow, Salovich Zero+ Campus Project A!liate Graduate Faculty, University of Minnesota

Principal, Infrascape Design

Cal Poly Pomona, MAY 19TH, 2011

Questions about Landscape Architecture

TOWARDS LANDSCAPE PERFORMANCE

How do we simulate urban/landscape performance? Can urban form be optimized to reduce environmental impacts?

What simulation tools are needed to understand the performance of cities?

How do we integrate energy and environmental performance modeling?

What monitoring and performance data is needed?

How do we better integrate the design process?

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ZERO+ CAMPUS DESIGN PROJECT 4 BARRY LEHRMAN

ZERO+ CAMPUS DESIGN PROJECT 5

M-Term: Optimizing the Building/Landscape Interface May 23 – June 9, 2011 (3 credits)

Exploring the interrelationships of energy, resources, water, and carbon emissions across building, site and regional scales.

The course seeks to: 1. Envision a Zero+ Approach to design for the campus – what is it, and how do we measure gains in performance? 2. Bridge diverse scales and ecological issues through interdisciplinary collaboration. 3. Explore and apply sustainable design principles, and strategies to creating design proposals that can achieve goals of net-zero energy, water and resource use on campus.

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TOWARDS ECOSYSTEM SERVICES

How do we integrate ecosystem services into the built environment? What tools are needed to model ecosystem service performance?

How do we create living cities and regenerative landscapes?

How can landscapes and infrastructure become multi-functional?

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TOWARDS ECOSYSTEM SERVICES 7

Josh Arvold/Laura Fickes/Alex Pratt

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TOWARDS LIVING CITIES 8 BARRY LEHRMAN

Jamuna Golden

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Tim Solomonson

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TOWARDS LIVING SYSTEMS 11

Aaron Kraemer

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TOWARDS SYSTEMS THINKING

How to make the leap from systems thinking/analysis to design?

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TOWARDS SYSTEMS THINKING 14 BARRY LEHRMAN

Natalie Ross

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Fall 2009 Agricultural Independence for MN Bio-Ethanol from Marginal Lands Bio-fuels and Ecosystem Services Community Supported Urban Agriculture Design for Deconstruction DIY Grey Water Irrigation Farm to School Programs: Improving Local

Food Systems Within Public Institutions Geothermal Energy Green Streets Grey Water Recycling Systems Groundwater Recharge Systems Human Energy & Piezoelectrics Municipal Composting Systems Local Construction Materials Metropolitan Water Reuse Management

Framework MicroHydro Public Process in Environmental Restoration Stormwater BMP Retrofits Treatment Wetlands Urban Agriculture Urban Heat Island Mitigation by Green Roofs Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment

Fall 2010 Bike Milwaukee Brownfield Remediation and Gentrification:

An Integral Solution Electric Vehicle Standards Environmental Marketing Green Gyms Greywater Systems Greywater Reuse and Recharge through New

Infrastructure and Facilities Home Energy Management Systems Human Energy Generators Humanless Wagon: Driverless Vehicles Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars In-Home Energy Management Systems Minnesota Can Do Solar Multifunctional Electrical Transmission Corridors Personal Rapid Transit Photovoltaic Minnesota Reducing Energy Cost in Schools Responsible Use and Acquisition of Water in

Multifamily Dwellings Smart-Sensor Commissioning and Monitoring

System

LA 4755/5755 Infrastructure, Natural Systems and the Space of Inhabited Landscapes – Research Paper Topics

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TOWARDS THE EPHEMERAL 16

How do we represent latent phenomena and hidden systems?

How can maps, indexes, and drawings influence the design process?

How can time, cycles, and systems be drawn and incorporated into the final design?

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TOWARDS THE EPHEMERAL 17 BARRY LEHRMAN

Laurie McGinely

TOWARDS THE INFRASCAPE 18

What is the cultural role of Infrastructure?

Can we integrate infrastructure into the cultural landscape?

How can we create multi-functional infrastructure?

Can Infrastructure be beautiful?

How can we re-use obsolete infrastructure and industrial places?

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TOWARDS THE INFRASCAPE 19 Bryan Pynn

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TOWARDS UHI MITIGATION 21

How can we create cities that mitigate the Urban Heat Island?

Research Coordination Network - Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability proposal to NSF – submitting Friday!

The University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment, in partnership with the Science Museum of Minnesota, the University of Georgia, Georgia Tech, the Hadley Centre (UK), and the Franklin Institute.

Bridging research, education and outreach, and implementation

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TOWARDS POLICY 22

How does policy shape design? How can design shape policy?

Beyond creating informed citizens, why do student’s need to understand the policy making process?

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Pedagogical questions

EPISTEMOLOGY

Intellectual Framework for Sustainability

Ecological Literacy

Critical Thinking

Systems Thinking

Quantification and Qualification

Policy as a Design Tool

Workforce Skills for a Hot, Flat, and Crowded Planet

Urban Performance Modeling

LCA/Carbon Accounting/Footprinting

Public Outreach/Facilitation

Project Management/Interdisciplinary Coordination/Systems Integration

Teaching students to ask the right questions.

How do we teach sustainability and resiliency?

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How can future forecasting help the design of resilient cities?

What are the pedagogical implications of designing for tomorrow versus today?

How do we design places for the Long Now?

Can we mitigate worst-case scenarios by acting today?

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TOWARDS INTEGRATED MEDIA

How does digital media change design practice?

What is the role of film-making in a design practice?

How does social media change how we collaborate?

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iGreen: How the Web Empowers Designers to Build Sustainably - Greenbuild 2009

Featuring: Cameron Sinclair Jill Fehrenbacher Emily Kemper Quilian Riano & Joel McKeller

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TOWARDS INTEGRATED PRACTICE

What is the future of practice?

How to teach interdisciplinary team-based practice?

What are the new modes of collaboration?

How does the internet and globalization change practice?

Norman Strong, AIArchitect Vol 14, April 6, 2007

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TOWARDS IMPLIMENTATION 28

What skills can we teach so complex projects can be realized?

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Towards Teaching

Assignments Research presentation defining ecosystem services 10% Optimizing Supporting ES - Parametric Studies 10% Optimizing Provisioning ES - Parametric Studies 10% Optimizing Regulating ES - Parametric Studies 10% Analyzing the Impact of Shading and Living Envelopes 10% Advanced Building & Landscape Modeling Strategies 10% Site Life-cycle Cost Analysis 10% Final Integrated Design 30%

To be taught in collaboration with ARCH5550 Whole Building Analysis

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Goals and Objectives • Introduce students to methods of holistic building/landscape performance assessment for the purpose of implementing cost-e!ective living buildings/regenerative design.

• Provide hands-on experience with design tools and analysis methods for regeneration and enhancement of the ecosystem services of a site.

• Provide experience working for a real client on real planned projects where proposed solutions will have future potential value.

• Enable students to develop an e!ective design process and methodology based on empirical (simulated) performance and comparative life-cycle cost data.

LA 5405 Integrated Ecosystem Services (in development for Fall 11 as part of the Zero+ Campus Project)

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Assignments Ecological/Carbon Footprinting 5% Speculative Infrastructure/Ecology Paper 60%

1.  Proposal 2.  Literature Review/Regulation Review 3.  Policy Statement 4.  Timeline/SWOT Analysis 5.  Graduate Presentations 6.  Final Paper

In-Class Activities 10% 1.  Defining sustainability 2.  Response to current events 3.  Peer review 4.  Advocacy Letter to a Policy Maker 5.  Career Path

Critical Questions about the Readings 15%

Class Participation 10%

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Course goals and objectives • Comprehend basic climate change science and anthropogenic environmental impacts.

• Comprehend the built environment, and graphic representation of complex systems.

• Comprehend performance metrics to environmental systems and the built environment.

• Analyze how technology shapes our cities, the environment and society.

• Analyze the societal impacts of climate change and environmental impacts.

• Evaluate the role of citizens, non-profits, corporations, utilities and governments in developing green infrastructure technologies, and the process for deploying new systems.

• Conceptualize solutions and apply systemic thinking to address large-scale complex environmental and urban issues.

• Apply and evaluate policies and regulations that shape infrastructural systems and urban form.

LA 4755/5755 Infrastructure, Natural Systems and the Space of Inhabited Landscapes (taught Fall 09 & 10)

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Assignments Projects

1)  Research Ecosystem Services and Future Scenarios 10%

2)  Site analysis and Mapping 20%

3)  Charrette 10%

4) Mission Statement 5%

5)  Site Design 25%

Service-Learning Reflections 10%

Critical Questions 10%

Class Participation 10%

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Course goals and objectives • Discuss and implement basic site engineering, landscape construction, and vegetation establishment and management technologies in design development documents that are needed to implement sustainable landscape design practices at a range of site scales.

•  Discuss how legal, social, economic and political institutions and physical systems a!ect the implementation of sustainable landscape design and planning practices at multiple geographic scales and in diverse settings.

•  Discuss the range of public policy instruments and processes that can be used to implement a landscape plan at the community or landscape scale.

•  Initiate and deliver a simple project requiring sustainable landscape design and planning services.

• Develop a scoping document, which includes a project site analysis, program and a toolkit of practices to define the nature of landscape design/planning services that will be provided to meet the requirements of a specific project.

•  Develop landscape planning policy documents that can be used to provide a framework for implementation of a sustainable landscape project plan.

LA 4002 Implementation of Sustainable Landscape Design and Planning Practices (Spring 11)

Laura Fickes

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Seminars History of Sustainable Design

Rendering invisible systems: mapping and drawing latent phenomena and ephemeral urbanism

Policy and Implementation for Designers

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More ideas

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Studios Re-use and adaptation: port of Long Beach/Los

Angeles in the post-Panama canal expansion era

Urban Heat Island Mitigation: Bakersfield

Post-Water Urbanism: Basin and Range

Sacramento Floods

The Zero+ : urban futures in a peak oil world

Energy Scapes: Cultural shaping of solar farms

THESIS PROJECTS

2010 Skip Carlson (MS Arch)

Em[powering] the Republic of Chad: Capturing Human Energy by Applying Piezoelectric Solutions

Adam Maletzski (MLA/MURP) Minneapolis, MN. A park over highway and TOD

Bryan Pynn (MLA) Ashland, WI. ‘Infrastructure as Place’. Adaptive reuse of ore dock

Emily Shively (MLA/MURP) St. Paul, MN. Swede’s Hollow Park Ecological Urbanism Masterplan

2011 Kaari Erickson (MLA)

Mankato, MN. River as a driver for urban revitalization.

Jamuna Golden (MLA) Ross Island, Portland, OR. Stacey Hanley (MArch)

Cedar Rapids, IA. A house for generating sustainable behavoir

Aaron Kraemer (MLA) Gowunus Canal, Brooklyn, NY.

Remediation and regeneration. Elizabeth Laurie (MLA)

St. Paul, MN. Equestrian urbanism and composting.

Natalie Ross (MLA) Minneapolis to Rochester, MN. High Speed Rail Corridor and station design.

Tim Solomonson (MLA/MURP) Minneapolis, MN. Urban agricultural

Elizabeth Turner (MLA/MS Sust Arch) Montesorri High School

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Thank you

infrascapedesign.wordpress.com

‘Design is the ultimate renewable resource. Together, we can continue to build a better future.’

- Cameron Sinclair

2011 Creative Commons

is bringing ecosystem services and enhancing connections for an underserved urban neighborhood adjacent to the Mississippi River

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Anthony Cousins

LA 4002 Implementation of Sustainable Landscape Design and Planning Practices (Spring 11)

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TIM SOLOMONSON – THESIS 2011 39 BARRY LEHRMAN

LA8205 MAPPING SOCIAL JUSTICE 40 Coleen O’Dell

Natalie Ross

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