LAN3700H S
Instructor: Doug Anderson
Meeting Section: L0101
Wednesday, 9:00am - 12:00pm

This course explores the relationship between Indigenous perspectives and practices on the land and the field of landscape architecture. We consider Indigenous ways of managing and interacting with landscapes and the importance of these ways of life for how land will come to be managed on behalf of coming generations, as humans continue to transform the land around us. An introduction is provided to relevant Indigenous knowledge and values relating to plants/ plant usage, land, water, and place. We then explore the implications of these values and forms of knowledge for people in general, and landscape architecture in particular, including an overview of legal, planning, ecological, and design possibilities and issues, through a “cross-cultural” lens. Assignments relate to and support the realization of some of the ideas explored through the course.