Assistant Professor Yiwei Huang and two landscape architecture undergraduate students Yahan You and Wanting Zhang will be presenting their landscape performance study of Suining South Riverfront Park in next week Landscape Architecture Foundation’s public webinar. The Landscape Architecture Foundation’s Case Study Investigation (CSI) program supports faculty-student research teams who work with designers to assess and document the[Read More…]
Dr. Aaron Thompson, Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture, and Dr. Zoe Nyssa, Department of Anthropology, are excited to announce the receipt of a new grant entitled “Plan Your Park.” The grant from the Engagement Scholarship Consortium will support an ongoing partnership between the Department of Anthropology, the City of West Lafayette, and the Center[Read More…]
Dave Barbarash published an invited paper in the Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture and presented at the Digital Landscape Architecture Conference at Harvard, Cambridge, MA. The paper is titled: Automated Recording of Human Movement Using an Artificial Intelligence Identification and Mapping System. The paper includes three undergraduate student co-authors who contributed custom software code, text,[Read More…]
Aaron Thompson coauthored a new paper in the Landscape Journal with Robert Marzec (Purdue – English Department) and Gary Burniske (Purdue – College of Agriculture) titled, “Climate BufferNet: a Gaming Simulation Linking Biodiversity Conservation and Climate Change Adaptation with Agricultural Landscape Planning.” Climate BufferNet is an educational, visual simulation designed to engage higher education students[Read More…]
The students in LA 482 class (instructed by Assistant Professor Yiwei Huang) created a series of temporary art installations on Agricultural Mall Thursday afternoon (April 28). The designs include a road chalk painting, an interactive watercolor-seed exchange station, and a labyrinth that is meant to be walked through to find inner peace for anyone who[Read More…]