Notes and Summary from Steve Caputo, Fellow, Design Trust for Public Space
Check out the slide show from the presentation.
Powerpoints from the presenters:
Charles McKinney, Chief of Design, City of New York Department of Parks & Recreation
Opening Remarks
Alex Felson, Director of Ecological Design, EDAW
"Bridging Ecological Research and Urban Design"
Joan Krevlin, Partner, BKSK Architects
"Integrating Building and Landscape: The Queens Botanical Garden"
Tim White , Project Manager, eDesign Dynamics
"Sustainable Stormwater Management"
Susannah Drake, Principal, dLandstudio
"Sponge Parks: Neighborhood-Scale Planning"
Marcha Johnson, Landscape Architect, Department of Parks and Recreation
"Case Studies for Implementation"
Margie Ruddick, Principal, WRT Design
"Queens Plaza: Interagency Collaboration and Sustainable Design"
Additional presentations as well as guest posts from our presenters will follow.
We welcome comments or questions!
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Symposium Summary and Powerpoints
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Hi,
I am very interested in the concepts discussed in these presentations, especially 'Bridging Ecological Research and Urban Design' by Alex Felson. In the last few months I have been doing some research on the subject. A resource that I have found very interesting especially because it is from 1984 slightly before this new “green” movement, is the book 'City Form and Natural Process' by Michael Hough. It gives a great insight on urban ecology as part of the city and not just as controlled pockets found in the city (e.g. parks, recreational facilities) The book and other resources such as this blog, are giving me the tools to develop my own research on the subject of sustainability or how I prefer to call it Environment Design; ENVIRONMENT being the interCONNECTION of certain factors such as ecology, sociology, etc. (as one of Alex Felson’s diagram demonstrates) and DESIGN being the CREATION of these interconnections.
Even though these presentations were given in 2007-08, I was curious if there has been or if there is a continuation of presentations like these. I would love to see more in depth some of this research and would greatly appreciate the opportunity to become part of the discussion.
Thank you,
Mayda V. Colón
Environment Designer
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