Helen teaches an advanced topics studio at the University of California, Los Angeles, as a visiting professor in Winter/Spring 2020. The studio examines adaptive strategies for climate equity in the City of Los Angeles with attention to the public realm, landscape, and urban form. The studio inverts the scientific paradigm of climate adaptation as a practice of systemic adjustment within socio-ecological systems to consider adaptations of form and material within the built environment. Thus, it clearly locates adaptative practice in the realm of architecture and urban design. The course is offered by the School of Architecture and Design and open to MArch and MURP students by lottery enrollment.
Helen lectures at the American Institute of Architects annual meeting in June. The panel explores the evolving role of design practice within the increasingly transdisciplinary fields of knowledge and inquiry centered on the climate crisis. It focuses on the unique forms of research and representation associated with architecture and design, historically, and thier relevance to the problem of climate adaptation as a societal imperative. Collaborating practitioners in the allied fields of landscape, architecture, and engineering will join us.
Helen lectures at the American Society of Landscape Architects annual meeting in October. The panel considers evolving approaches to natural and cultural resource management in the context of a changing climate and thier influence in design practice. It focuses on design and decision frameworks for landscapes facing rapid or irreversible ecological changes and explores thier application in design research and practice. Practitioners in the allied fields of architecture, urban design, and engineering will join us to discuss projects that contend with climate risk across a range of geographic contexts.
Helen joins the faculty at the Rhode Island School of Design where she teaches design studios, research seminars, and methods courses in the Master of Landscape Architecture degree program.