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Practice title Plum Island date 2023-09 venue Parker River
Plum Island, Massachusetts

The Plum Island dune restoration pilot project opens to the public. The related habitat management plan and environmental assessment for the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge is open for public comment through October. Please share your input.

Practice title Living Shoreline date 2022-04 venue Tomales Bay
Marshall, California

The Tomales Bay living shoreline breaks ground! The project negotiates a small and complex site on the eastern shore of Tomales Bay, California.

Summit title On Sustainability date 2020-01 venue Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Mudflat, low tide

Helen presents recent research at the 16th International Summit on Sustainability in Santiago, Chile, in January. The panel focuses on tensions inherent in the foundational concept of sustainable development and thier implications for design practice. It explores relationships between core and periphery in framing responses to the global pressures of urbanization and climate change, inviting discussion from diverse disciplinary and geographic vantage points. The event is hosted by UC Chile Architecture, Urban Design, and Urban Studies.

Studio title Climate Pilots date 2020-01 venue University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

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 how to mitigate urban heat events through 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.

Lecture title Climate by Design date 2019-06 venue American Institute of Architects
World's End, Massachusetts

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.

Lecture title Practices of Adaptation date 2018-10 venue American Society of Landscape Architects
Sword fern, forest floor

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.

News title Teaching Landscape Architecture date 2017-09 venue Rhode Island School of Design
Providence, Rhode Island

Helen is appointed Assistant Professor (2017-19) at the Rhode Island School of Design where she teaches graduate-level design studios, research seminars, and methods courses in the Master of Landscape Architecture degree program.