Landscape Futures: Centennial of the Department of Landscape Architecture

On the evening of Thursday, September 26 from 6-9 pm, hear updates and future visions for the School and the Department from Dean and Paley Professor Fritz Steiner and Catherine Seavitt, Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture, followed by a keynote address by James Corner (MLA’86), founding partner and CEO of Field Operations. Corner served as the chair of the Department from 2000–2012. A celebratory toast and reception will follow.

On Friday, September 27 at 1 pm, the afternoon symposium Landscape Futures will launch with an opening keynote by Anne Whiston Spirn (MLA’74), the Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism at MIT. Spirn served as chair of Penn’s Department of Landscape Architecture from 1986–1994. The symposium will include three moderated panel discussions: The Household of Nature, The Astronaut, and The Naturalist.

The symposium will close with a talk at 7 pm by Jeff Goodell, author of The New York Times bestseller The Heat Will Kill You First, among six additional books on the environment and the climate emergency. The two-day event will conclude with a reception at 8 pm and special musical guest, DJ Farrah Flosscett, spinning an afterparty until 11 pm.

If you have any questions or need further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact weitzman-alumni@design.upenn.edu.