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  • Thursday, March 28, 6:00 pm – River. Space. Design.: Toward a New Urban Water Culture

    Antje Stokman, Professor and Director of Landscape Planning and Ecology at Stuttgart University in Germany will give the New Directions in EcoPlanning Annual Lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Oxford Street, Cambridge, on Thursday, March 28. Antje Stokman will discuss how, within different cultural contexts, our relationship with water results in very different landscape and city forms. She outlines a vision for reintegrating the dynamics of water into our cities. Free and open to the public. Reception to follow in the HMNH galleries. Supported by a generous gift from Michael Dyett (AB ‘68, MRP ‘72) and Heidi Richardson.

  • Thursday, March 8, 6:00 pm – A Great Green Cloud: The Rise and Fall of the City Elms

    Decades before Olmsted parks, Yankee villagers planted elm trees on their streets and commons to forge a union of rus and urbe, i.e. the rustic and the urban. The trees brought about “a kind of compromise between town and country,” observed Charles Dickens, as if each had met the other halfway and shaken hands upon it. The result was that lost masterpiece of American urbanism, “Elm Street.” Thomas J. Campanella, Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Design at the University of North Carolina, will explore elm culture in the U.S., and how our love affair with this giant nearly brought it to the edge of disappearance, at the Harvard Museum of Natural History’s New Directions in EcoPlanning Annual Lecture on Thursday, March 8, beginning at 6 pm . Reception to follow, free and open to the public.  Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street. Free parking available in the 52 Oxford Street garage. Supported by a gift from Michael Dyett (AB ’68, MRP ’72) and Heidi Richardson.

  • Wednesday, March 30, 6:00 pm – New Directions in EcoPlanning Annual Lecture

    Anne Whiston Spirn is an award-winning author, photographer, and professor of landscape architecture and planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her work is devoted to promoting life-sustaining communities: places that are functional, sustainable, meaningful, and artful, and help people understand the relationship between the natural and built worlds. This Harvard Museum of Natural History program will take place at 6 pm on Wednesday, March 30. Free and open to the public, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street. Reception to follow. Supported by a generous gift from Michael Dyett (AB ’68, MRP ’72) and Heidi Richardson. For more information log on to www.hmnh.harvard.edu.

  • Wednesday, April 28, 6:00 pm – New Directions in EcoPlanning Annual Lecture

    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.

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