Geneva Wirth, design principal of SCAPE Landscape Architecture, will continue the Hyde Lecture Series with a 4 p.m. Nov. 18 talk in Richards Hall, Room 15.
The lecture, “Toward an Urban Ecology,” is free and open to the public. Wirth will share why she believes urban landscape design should be a form of activism. The talk will outline the importance of moving beyond the familiar and increasingly outmoded ways of thinking about environmental, urban and social issues as separate domains and advocating for the synthesis of practice to create a truly urban ecology.
Wirth will depict a range of participatory and science-based strategies through the lens of office work, featured projects, collaborators and design methods that advance urban ecological design.
Trained in landscape architecture, urban planning and horticulture, Wirth draws from her interdisciplinary training to create ecologically rich and culturally relevant landscapes from the infrastructural scale to the site level.
Wirth leads the design on several significant projects at SCAPE. She holds a Master of Landscape Architecture and Master of Urban Planning with Distinction from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Science in Horticulture from the University of Delaware.
For more information on the College of Architecture’s Hyde Lecture Series, click here.
