UNDONE- The Return to Earth: graphic created by Emilia Hurd & Julia Smachylo
How do landscapes serve as mediums of change through active stewardship practices? What is the role of environmental management as it relates to issues of climate change, justice, resilience and adaptation?
Collection of cyanotypes created by students.
Welcome to the Managed Landscapes Design Lab [MDL] run by Dr. Julia Smachylo. The lab engages with the entangled relations of human and non-human nature, with particular attention given to the changing contours of our governance systems, institutions, and environments. What is meant by management, maintenance, and design in these contexts? In this regard our work is speculative, we as a lab are constantly re-interrogating our methods, our definitions, and assumptions as the world changes around us. Working between local, regional, and planetary scales we investigate the trajectories of management practices across different levels of engagement, with a focus on the changing scales and agents involved, to envision more socially and environmentally sound futures.