Coordinator of the Urban Landscape and Sustainable Urban Environments Programs at Northeastern University, Brad Goetz regards landscape as a medium to think, see, and make change for social and environmental justice. By pairing metrics with modeling Brad hopes to further our understanding of resilience as it relates to adaptation and the design process — in an attempt to address larger concerns for bidirectional convergence between design, the humanities, and sciences. His work unites three recent and significant strands of ecological resilience inquiry: the articulation, implementation, and visualization of landscape performance metrics via ecosystem services; the indices derived as pattern language for the interpretation and assessment of change; and the knowledge reorganization necessary to empower design with models that can accommodate flux, flow and other boundary blurring phenomena.

In addition to teaching, Brad has worked for James Corner Field Operations of New York and has collaborated with Port Urbanism, Mass Design Group, The Olin Group, and Hargreaves Associates. He was a finalist in the Open International Design Competition for Water as the Sixth Borough of New York and had his work exhibited at the Los Angeles A+D Museum with the Drylands Design Exhibition on Visionary Proposals for a Water Scarce Future. While collaborating with Port they were awarded the winning entry, City Loop, for Denver’s City Park Competition, and has had his designs acknowledged and published via Port with the Land Art Generator Initiative Open Competition for Freshkills Park, New York and the Living City Open International Design Competition for Re-Cultivating the Forest City, Cleveland. Brad received a dual Master of Landscape Architecture and City Planning with a Certificate of Urban Design from the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated with the ASLA Award of Honor.