Terrestrial Practice (formerly LNDSCPR) broadcasts the experimental design research of landscape architect, michael geffel, as he investigates the generative capacity of landscape maintenance — that is, how maintenance operations mediate and construct landscape and how they may be utilized as design instruments to engage territories outside the traditional scope of landscape architecture.
Research is organized around three themes: maintenance as infrastructural service, as design activism, and as novel ecology, with specific interest in how maintenance is situated within the context of urban metabolism, shrinking cities, and the anthropocene. This exploration has emerged in an attempt to bridge a past life in geography, restoration ecology and gardening with the professional model of landscape architecture and the expansiveness of the landscape medium.
Terrestrial Practice (formerly LNDSCPR) broadcasts the experimental design research of landscape architect, michael geffel, as he investigates the generative capacity of landscape maintenance — that is, how maintenance operations mediate and construct landscape and how they may be utilized as design instruments to engage territories outside the traditional scope of landscape architecture.
Research is organized around three themes: maintenance as infrastructural service, as design activism, and as novel ecology, with specific interest in how maintenance is situated within the context of urban metabolism, shrinking cities, and the anthropocene. This exploration has emerged in an attempt to bridge a past life in geography, restoration ecology and gardening with the professional model of landscape architecture and the expansiveness of the landscape medium.
Research is organized around three themes: maintenance as infrastructural service, as design activism, and as novel ecology, with specific interest in how maintenance is situated within the context of urban metabolism, shrinking cities, and the anthropocene. This exploration has emerged in an attempt to bridge a past life in geography, restoration ecology and gardening with the professional model of landscape architecture and the expansiveness of the landscape medium.
Michael Geffel is Lab Director and Design Principal of LND LAB, a design practice that (re)directs maintenance & operations to socially activate and ecologically regenerate fallow landscapes. Prior to creating LND LAB, Michael was Lab Director of the Fuller Initiative for Productive Landscapes and Professor of Practice at the University of Oregon College of Design.