Animal Agency in the Landscape - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Stacy Passmore is a principal and co-founder of Superbloom in Denver, Colorado. Her work explores field-based methods of design research, understanding environments and communities are deeply dynamic and require designs that engage with conditions of change. Working at multiple scales of reading and representing landscapes, Stacy’s recent projects focus on the resiliency of arid landscapes and the potential for design approaches that reconsider the relationships between humans and ecological systems. Stacy holds a Master of Landscape Architecture from Harvard University, a Master of Community and Regional Planning from the University of British Columbia, and a B.A. from New York University.

Steven Handel, Hon. ASLA, Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolution at Rutgers University, and formerly Visiting Professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, studies the restoration ecology of urban and degraded habitats and how this can mesh with landscape architecture design. He is Editor of the journal Ecological Restoration and is a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America. He received the Theodore Sperry Award from the Society of Ecological Restoration, their highest research award, for work on urban habitat creation. He received his BA in biology from Columbia University and PhD in ecology and evolution from Cornell University.

Gena Wirth, RLA, is Design Principal at SCAPE. She works with cities, community advocates and landowners to reveal the ecological and cultural potential of public landscapes. As Design Principal, Gena translates research into practice, leading the design and implementation of complex, multi-stakeholder landscapes—including public and private waterfronts, regional trail systems, parks, plazas and climate adaptation plans. Gena is also a tenacious advocate for ecological systems design across the design fields—both as a member of the Dredge Research Collaborative, a non-profit group, and through past teaching positions at Harvard, Columbia, Syracuse and Rutgers.