Helen teaches an advanced topics studio at the University of California, Los Angeles, as a visiting professor in Winter/Spring 2020.
The studio, co-taught with architect Christina Tung (Grimshaw), 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 ground-up approaches 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.