A reminder: On Wednesday, April 28, beginning at 6:00 pm at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Jane Wolff (Harvard Graduate School of Design ’92) will present a free lecture New Directions in EcoPlanning, open to the public. Ms. Wolff is Director of the Landscape Architecture program at the University of Toronto. Her research and design work aims to articulate terms for landscapes where the line between nature and artifice is hard to draw.
Professor Charles Waldheim, Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design says of Jane Wolff: “Jane Wolff has emerged as among the strongest voices of her generation in the field of landscape architecture. Her work clearly articulates the complex and contradictory conditions for contested landscapes under pressure from rapid urbanization, deteriorating public infrastructures, increased demands for local agricultural production, and destination economies of recreation and leisure.” The author of Delta Primer, a book and deck of cards designed to educate broad audiences about the contested landscapes of the California Delta (see image below), Ms. Wolff is currently involved in design, advocacy, and public information projects in San Francisco, New Orleans, and St. Louis. The lecture is supported by a gift from Michael Dyett and Heidi Richardson. For more information you may call 617-495-3045, or log on to www.hmnh.harvard.edu. There will be a free reception with the speaker in the galleries following the talk.
