Spring 2019, Core Studio IV with Brad Cantrell, Andrea Hansen, and Brad Goetz.
Collaborative project with Gaelle Gourmelon and Chloe Nagraj.
Work was executed by myself unless otherwise noted.
2019 VA ASLA Commendation Award in the Analysis and Planning Category
Collaborative project with Gaelle Gourmelon and Chloe Nagraj.
Work was executed by myself unless otherwise noted.
2019 VA ASLA Commendation Award in the Analysis and Planning Category
The thriving agricultural and oil industries of the Southern San Joaquin Valley are quickly approaching their limits. Instead of aiming to fix the region’s problems of subsidence, saline soils, contaminated groundwater, poor air quality and vulnerability to drought, we propose a menu of strategies to layer flexibility and complexity into the system as it meets difficult realities. Borrowing from ecological theory, we see this landscape as a dynamic mosaic of patches. First introducing an adaptive menu of economically, ecologically, and socially viable options into the local lexicon, over time the feedback loops between patches and strategies multiply into a living territorial system that responds to the landscape context – climate, hydrology, geology and soil. When layered together the strategies can transform, re-purpose, or hybridize obsolete, static land use types into a responsive system of rotating land patterns and maintenance regimes. We acknowledge the unavoidable obsolescence of infrastructure and contemporary land use and provide an alternate vision for the process of “failing.”
Catalog of tools and machines: current uses and transition to use in proposed strategies