landscape architecture / en The landscape of reconciliation: Chris Grosset reflects on nearly 20 years of working in Indigenous communities /news/landscape-reconciliation-chris-grosset-reflects-nearly-20-years-working-indigenous-communities <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">The landscape of reconciliation: Chris Grosset reflects on nearly 20 years of working in Indigenous communities</span> <div class="field field--name-field-featured-picture field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="eager" srcset="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/2017-11-28-CHRIS-GROSSET-LEAD.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=gU2OlF9V 370w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_740/public/2017-11-28-CHRIS-GROSSET-LEAD.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=6c7rU-2_ 740w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_1110/public/2017-11-28-CHRIS-GROSSET-LEAD.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=hlndeQOo 1110w" sizes="(min-width:1200px) 1110px, (max-width: 1199px) 80vw, (max-width: 767px) 90vw, (max-width: 575px) 95vw" width="740" height="494" src="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/2017-11-28-CHRIS-GROSSET-LEAD.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=gU2OlF9V" alt="Chris Grosset"> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>hjames</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2017-11-30T00:00:00-05:00" title="Thursday, November 30, 2017 - 00:00" class="datetime">Thu, 11/30/2017 - 00:00</time> </span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Cutline</div> <div class="field__item">Chris Grosset and a colleague planning Sylvia Grinnell Territorial Park in Iqaluit (photo by Naomi Ratte)</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author-reporters field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/authors-reporters/hannah-james" hreflang="en">Hannah James</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-topic field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Topic</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/topics/city-culture" hreflang="en">City &amp; Culture</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-story-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/alumni" hreflang="en">Alumni</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/humanities" hreflang="en">Humanities</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/indigenous" hreflang="en">Indigenous</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/john-h-daniels-faculty-architecture" hreflang="en">John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/landscape-architecture" hreflang="en">landscape architecture</a></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Indigenous hunters, elders, and a women’s sewing circle: They are some of the non-academic teachers that <strong>Chris Grosset</strong> says have transformed his landscape architecture practice.</p> <p>“Learning on the job, learning in the field, learning in people’s homes has changed my approach,” says Grosset, a 91Թ&nbsp;alumnus who has worked in Indigenous communities for nearly 20 years. “Skills I needed to do this work have evolved over time. They’re not something I learned in school.”</p> <p><strong>Grosset,</strong>&nbsp;a partner and senior consultant at the&nbsp;Indigenous firm&nbsp;<a href="http://nvisiongroup.ca/">NVision Insight Group Inc</a><strong><a href="http://nvisiongroup.ca/">.</a>,&nbsp;</strong>will share his experiences in a lecture tonight at the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.daniels.utoronto.ca/">John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design</a>. His talk,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.daniels.utoronto.ca/events/2017/11/30/path-mountain-journey-landscape-architecture-learning-and-reconciliation">“The Path. The Mountain. The Journey: Landscape architecture, learning and reconciliation</a>” is part of the faculty’s “<a href="https://www.daniels.utoronto.ca/news/2017/10/25/what-school-architecture-landscape-architecture-art-or-urban-design">What Is A School</a>?” lecture series, which explores the changing nature of the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, art and urbanism, as well as evolving pedagogies in these areas.</p> <p><img alt class="media-image attr__typeof__foaf:Image img__fid__6928 img__view_mode__media_large attr__format__media_large" src="/sites/default/files/2017-11-28-grosset-embed.jpg" style="margin: 10px; width: 750px; height: 400px;" typeof="foaf:Image"></p> <p><em>Chris Grosset has spent nearly 20 years working in Indigenous communities throughout Canada&nbsp;(photo courtesy of Chris Grosset)</em></p> <p>“It is important for the field of landscape architecture to self-reflect on our changing role as design consultants,” explains&nbsp;<strong>Liat Margolis</strong>, an associate professor and director of the master of landscape architecture program. “Chris’s talk will purposefully not talk about projects but instead talk about&nbsp;his journey of unlearning and learning as a way of defining truth and reconciliation as it relates to landscape architecture.”</p> <p>Margolis says bringing Grosset to 91Թ is part of an ongoing dialogue at Daniels about how to respond to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s calls to action.</p> <h2><a href="/news/truth-and-reconciliation-u-t">Read about TRC at 91Թ</a></h2> <p>When <a href="/news/uoftgrad17-murray-sinclair-chair-canada-s-truth-and-reconciliation-commission-receives-honorary">Senator Murray Sinclair</a>, former chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, released the TRC calls to action in June 2015, he said, “We have described for you a mountain. We have shown you the path to the top. We call upon you to do the climbing.” Grosset, whose lecture title references Sinclair's symbolic mountain, says he's learned that on the path to reconciliation, it's&nbsp;important to slow down and listen.</p> <p>As an example,&nbsp;Grosset describes a project he worked on – a public park – that came out of a lengthy consultation with a community in Nunavut that wanted to build a park to commemorate its cultural connection to whales. "They had just completed their first whale hunt in the modern history of their community and so we were able to secure the skull and jawbones of that whale that they had harvested, and that was integrated into the design.”&nbsp;</p> <p>He says they were also able to get funding to help men in the community who had lost the traditional skills of working with stone. Men on income support were able to work on the project as a part of a training program. They learned to collect the stone and prepare the site, and ultimately they built the park.</p> <p>“And so the thing is that in that case this is not about the design at all, it doesn’t matter what it looks like. The whole thing is about using the landscape to reconnect and to heal. So that’s what I try to do.”&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>Grosset recalls that when he completed his master's in landscape architecture at the University of Guelph, he had his heart set on working with heritage gardens: researching historic properties and designing gardens with contemporary art elements. As he was looking for that dream job, he took a trip to Iqaluit to visit some friends.</p> <p>“When I arrived there … just to see the incredible white landscape, the big beautiful sky, just the vastness of it. It was just such a powerful landscape and I just knew that I wanted to stay there as long as I could."</p> <p>Grosset’s lecture will take place from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in the Mediatheque, room 200 at 1 Spadina Crescent.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-path-the-mountain-the-journey-landscape-architecture-learning-and-reconciliation-with-chris-tickets-39838326507">Registration is required</a>.</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-home-page-banner field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">News home page banner</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Thu, 30 Nov 2017 05:00:00 +0000 hjames 123270 at 91Թ’s Winter Stations warm up Toronto’s beaches /news/u-t-s-winter-stations-warm-toronto-s-beaches <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">91Թ’s Winter Stations warm up Toronto’s beaches</span> <div class="field field--name-field-featured-picture field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="eager" srcset="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/WS%20Main.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=2Em21OFk 370w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_740/public/WS%20Main.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=kqWPOy2A 740w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_1110/public/WS%20Main.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=AaHFqmfJ 1110w" sizes="(min-width:1200px) 1110px, (max-width: 1199px) 80vw, (max-width: 767px) 90vw, (max-width: 575px) 95vw" width="740" height="494" src="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/WS%20Main.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=2Em21OFk" alt="Midwinter Fire"> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Romi Levine</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2017-02-28T12:15:42-05:00" title="Tuesday, February 28, 2017 - 12:15" class="datetime">Tue, 02/28/2017 - 12:15</time> </span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Cutline</div> <div class="field__item">Beachgoers enjoy 91Թ's Winter Station installation named, “Midwinter Fire” (photo by Romi Levine)</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author-reporters field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/authors-reporters/romi-levine" hreflang="en">Romi Levine</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author-legacy field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Author legacy</div> <div class="field__item">Romi Levine</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-topic field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Topic</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/topics/city-culture" hreflang="en">City &amp; Culture</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-story-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/architecture" hreflang="en">Architecture</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/arts" hreflang="en">Arts</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/cities" hreflang="en">Cities</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/design" hreflang="en">Design</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/john-h-daniels-faculty-architecture" hreflang="en">John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/landscape-architecture" hreflang="en">landscape architecture</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/location" hreflang="en">On Location</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-subheadline field--type-string-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Subheadline</div> <div class="field__item">The event runs until March 27</div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Torontonians have been flocking&nbsp;to the sandy shores of Lake Ontario to check out the whimsical structures lining the beach.</p> <p><a href="http://winterstations.com/">Winter Stations</a>&nbsp;is the&nbsp;annual design competition where creative teams from all over the world build art installations around the&nbsp;lifeguard posts scattered across Toronto's east-end beaches. This year, 91Թ architecture and landscape architecture master’s students from&nbsp;the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design made their debut.</p> <p><iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1nLNVW0bgnM" width="640"></iframe></p> <p>The event is a chance for students and budding designers to show off their talent,&nbsp;alongside more experienced architects. Three schools, including 91Թ, were chosen to participate. &nbsp;</p> <p>“To me, this is a great opportunity for young designers to design,&nbsp;build and deliver pieces where normally in the studio, they don't necessarily see things out and work through problems,” says Aaron Hendershott of RAW Design, one of the event organizers. “I think it's a great learning experience for the students and they do really compelling work.”</p> <p>Students at 91Թ participated in an internal competition to decide which installation would be included and it was <em>Midwinter Fire</em>&nbsp;that got the vote. &nbsp;</p> <p><img alt class="media-image attr__typeof__foaf:Image img__fid__3594 img__view_mode__media_original attr__format__media_original" src="/sites/default/files/building.jpg" style="width: 750px; height: 500px;" typeof="foaf:Image"></p> <p><em>91Թ architecture and landscape architecture students assembled Midwinter Fire on a snowy beach, days before the Winter Stations event opened to the public&nbsp;(photo by Romi Levine)</em></p> <div>The structure utilizes local vegetation to brighten up the wintry beach and reflective walls to make the installation appear larger, almost infinite.</div> <h3><a href="/news/jazzing-winter-city-u-t-students-build-winter-station-toronto-beach">Read more about 91Թ's<em> Midwinter Fire</em></a></h3> <p>“What we're trying to do is get into a space and alter your perception of what the outside is to the inside,” says architecture graduate student <strong>Michael DeGirolamo</strong>.</p> <p><img alt class="media-image attr__typeof__foaf:Image img__fid__3595 img__view_mode__media_original attr__format__media_original" src="/sites/default/files/mindwinter.jpg" style="width: 750px; height: 500px;" typeof="foaf:Image"><br> <em>Midwinter Fire was one of a few structures with a lineup to get inside on opening day&nbsp;(photo by Romi Levine)</em></p> <p>The construction process wasn’t without a “few hiccups,” says DeGirolamo.</p> <p>The truck carrying building materials, for example, got stuck in the sand, delaying construction and a supply run. Despite setbacks, <em>Midwinter Fire</em>&nbsp;was ready to go for opening day – and it was a hit.&nbsp;</p> <p>Kids enjoyed climbing up onto the lifeguard station to get a good view. One parent&nbsp;remarked,&nbsp;“This is magic.”</p> <p><img alt class="media-image attr__typeof__foaf:Image img__fid__3597 img__view_mode__media_original attr__format__media_original" src="/sites/default/files/beacon.jpg" style="width: 750px; height: 500px;" typeof="foaf:Image"><br> <em>Kids had fun using Winter Stations, like this one&nbsp;called </em>Beacon<em>, as a jungle gym&nbsp;(photo by Romi Levine)</em></p> <p><em>Midwinter Fire</em>&nbsp;isn’t the only 91Թ-made Winter Station at this year’s event.</p> <p>After drafting a design for their studio class, landscape architecture students <strong>Asuka Kono</strong> and <strong>Rachel Salmela</strong> decided to submit their concept to the design competition – and they won.</p> <p>Their Winter Station, <em>I See You Ashiyu</em>, is a long wooden foot bath heated by a wood-burning stove.</p> <p><img alt class="media-image attr__typeof__foaf:Image img__fid__3596 img__view_mode__media_original attr__format__media_original" src="/sites/default/files/I%20see%20you.jpg" style="width: 750px; height: 500px;" typeof="foaf:Image"><br> <em>"We really wanted to do something that's more connected to the beach and the lake, that would help revitalize a winter landscape," says Rachel Salmela about, </em>I See You Ashiyu<em>&nbsp;(photo by Romi Levine)</em></p> <p>“We both are very familiar with the public baths culture:&nbsp;I'm from Japan, half of [Rachel’s] family is from Finland,” says Kono. “When we are warm and relaxed, it's easy to communicate with other people so this hot springs public bath is a social catalyst.”</p> <p>Beachgoers are encouraged to keep filling the bath using buckets provided.</p> <p>“It gets people to engage with one another, engage with the installation in a more active way,” says Salmela.</p> <p><img alt class="media-image attr__typeof__foaf:Image img__fid__3598 img__view_mode__media_original attr__format__media_original" height="500" src="/sites/default/files/message%20bottle.jpg" typeof="foaf:Image" width="750" loading="lazy"><br> Collective Memory<em>, an installation created by a design team from Italy and Spain, encouraged people to celebrate the diversity of Toronto by writing messages in bottles&nbsp;(photo by Romi Levine)</em></p> <p>For Hendershott, 91Թ’s Winter Stations embrace the qualities that make the event unique.</p> <p>“The installations that have been most successful in my mind create new types of social spaces,” he says. “They create reasons for strangers to rub elbows or get contained in the space together.”</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-home-page-banner field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">News home page banner</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Tue, 28 Feb 2017 17:15:42 +0000 Romi Levine 105256 at Can landscape design mitigate wildfires? 91Թ student says yes /news/can-landscape-design-mitigate-wildfires <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Can landscape design mitigate wildfires? 91Թ student says yes</span> <div class="field field--name-field-featured-picture field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="eager" srcset="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/wildfire-1140.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=fpWSfkiO 370w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_740/public/wildfire-1140.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=XYR8FCMb 740w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_1110/public/wildfire-1140.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=UkB0qbUu 1110w" sizes="(min-width:1200px) 1110px, (max-width: 1199px) 80vw, (max-width: 767px) 90vw, (max-width: 575px) 95vw" width="740" height="494" src="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/wildfire-1140.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=fpWSfkiO" alt="A burnt tree outside Fort McMurray"> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lavende4</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2016-07-18T11:19:33-04:00" title="Monday, July 18, 2016 - 11:19" class="datetime">Mon, 07/18/2016 - 11:19</time> </span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Cutline</div> <div class="field__item">Aftermath of the Fort McMurray wildfire: what can landscape architects do to help mitigate wildfire disasters? (Jonathan Hayward/Getty Images)</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author-reporters field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/authors-reporters/dale-duncan" hreflang="en">Dale Duncan</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author-legacy field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Author legacy</div> <div class="field__item">Dale Duncan</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-topic field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Topic</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/topics/our-community" hreflang="en">Our Community</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-story-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/wildfires" hreflang="en">wildfires</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/daniels-faculty-architecture" hreflang="en">Daniels Faculty of Architecture</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/landscape-architecture" hreflang="en">landscape architecture</a></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>During a trip to Adelaide, Australia in 2015,&nbsp;<strong>Jordan Duke</strong>&nbsp;witnessed her first wildfire.</p> <p>“We were driving over a hill and I could see a large plume of smoke in the horizon,” she said. “Thousands of hectares were on fire.” From the plane, the next day when she flew out, Duke was struck by the vast expanse of charred earth. She thought about it the entire flight home.</p> <p>As a student in the Master of Landscape Architecture program at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, Duke wondered: what could landscape architects do to help mitigate wildfire disasters? In the wake of the fire that struck Fort McMurray in Alberta in May, it’s a question that carries increased relevance — particularly since wildfires are predicted to increase in the future.</p> <p>For her thesis project the following year, Duke researched how wildfires could be mitigated through tools that exist within the realm of landscape architecture. Her research culminated in the development of a strategy for Cleland Conservation Park. The park is based in South Australia where in February 2009, wildfires claimed over 170 lives. Her plan — which combined remote sensors embedded in the landscape with site-specific landscape design strategies that would produce both short- and long-term results — projected new possibilities, not only for the field of landscape architecture but also for how we could diminish such disasters in the future.</p> <p>“There’s a lot of planning when it comes to wildfires in terms of where to build neighbourhoods, and there are many techniques to track and evaluate an area’s likelihood of burning, but I found that there were few systems in place to reduce the risk of a large wildfire occurring in the first place, “ says Duke.</p> <p>Inspired by her work the previous summer at the Daniels Faculty’s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.daniels.utoronto.ca/resources/centre_landscape_research/research_laboratories/green-roof-innovation-testing-laboratory">Green Roof Innovation Testing Laboratory</a>&nbsp;(gritlab), the first part of her strategy included embedding remote sensors within the landscape that would allow for real-time monitoring of data such as humidity, wind, temperature, vegetation density, and water availability — factors that contribute to the likelihood of a fire.</p> <p>“At gritlab, we learned that sensor technology is cheap and easy to deploy. I had no computer engineering background, but by the end of the summer, we were installing sensors throughout the green roof, downloading data and doing analysis,” says Duke. “This triggered an idea: what if we could take these sensors and deploy them across a huge site to monitor variables that would let us know in advance when fires are likely to happen?”</p> <p><img alt src="https://daniels.utoronto.ca/sites/daniels.utoronto.ca/files/jordan-weather_modifyers.jpg" style="border:0px rgb(204, 204, 204);height:267px;width:500px;"></p> <p>Under Duke’s plan, data from the sensors would activate a variety of responses across the landscape. For example, on dry, hot days, weather modifiers installed along the ridges and valleys of the park would disperse mist across the site to increase humidity levels. Using the regular ocean breeze moving across the site, the modifiers would also scatter the seeds of fire-resistent cypress trees along the ridges of the landscape. Over time, the wall of trees that would eventually grow would become windbreaks that could help slow the pace of a fire.</p> <p><img alt src="https://daniels.utoronto.ca/sites/daniels.utoronto.ca/files/jordan-watering_hole.jpg" style="border:0px rgb(204, 204, 204);height:577px;width:500px;"></p> <p>Excess rainwater, which normally flows down the hills to the ocean during heavy rain, would be collected in reservoirs, which could become recreational pools for people visiting the park or sources of water for animals in search of refuge. When sensors indicate the risk of a fire in a particular location, however, the water would be released down the valley to soak the landscape below. The large amount of rapidly released water would also increase erosion runoff, thus creating firebreaks throughout the valley.</p> <p>Duke also considered vegetation, which provides fuel for burning fires. Artificial watering holes strategically placed throughout the park would attract animals in times of drought. Native wallabies, kangaroos and other animals coming to the pools of water would then feed on nearby vegetation, reducing fuel for a potential fire.</p> <p>“None of these devices eliminate risk,” says Duke. “Instead, they work to shift risk from large scale, catastrophic events to smaller, everyday risk levels.”</p> <p>In addition to these and other tactics designed to mitigate risk, Duke explored ways to influence human behavior. The weather monitors along the ridge of the hill above the city, for example, could be programmed to light more brightly at night during periods of high-energy use. &nbsp;</p> <p>“The idea is to change the collective consciousness of the local population by highlighting invisible phenomena and patterns that are contributing to climate change and wildfire occurrences,” says Duke. Energy consumption in the city of Adelaide is among the highest in Australia.</p> <p><img alt src="https://daniels.utoronto.ca/sites/daniels.utoronto.ca/files/jordancsla-500.jpg" style="border:0px rgb(204, 204, 204);height:349px;width:500px;"><br> <em>Jordan Duke (centre), with Dean <strong>Richard Sommer </strong>and Associate Professor <strong>Alissa North</strong>, Director of the Master of Architecture Landscape program, at the 2016 Graduation Awards Ceremony</em></p> <p>While the scope of her thesis was to research and propose a new approach to mitigating wildfires, Duke does hope to one day build and test her project.</p> <p>Her hope is that the strategy she devised will plant the seeds for ways that landscape architects can contribute to wildfire mitigation in the future.</p> <p>“Developing science fiction scenarios are necessary,” says Duke. “Imagining what could be done is usually the first step towards something actually happening.”</p> <p><em>Assistant Professor&nbsp;<a href="https://www.daniels.utoronto.ca/people/margolisl">Liat Margolis</a>&nbsp;was Duke’s thesis advisor. Duke received the American Society of Landscape Architects Certificate of Honor and the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects Student Award of Merit at this year’s graduation awards ceremony.</em></p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-home-page-banner field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">News home page banner</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Mon, 18 Jul 2016 15:19:33 +0000 lavende4 14666 at