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Tag: New Directions in EcoPlanning

  • 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.

  • 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.