2022 Winners
Catherine Auger (MLA I AP ’23) for “Noise1”
Matthew Gorab (MLA I ’23) for “Rest Stopping Across America: An Investigation of Northeast and Midwest Rest Stops”
Diana Guo (MLA I ’22) & Tianwei Li (MLA I ’22) for “Berries of Abundance: Renewing Lifeways Through Cultural Foodscapes in Arctic Canada”
Julia Hedges (MLA I ’24) for “Immaterial Earth: Kentucky Karst Above and Below”
Yazmine Mihojevich (MLA I ’23) for “Recovering Roger Young Village”
Dora Mugerwa (MLA I ’24) for “Luganda and the Land: How Language Reimagines Landscape”
Chandani Patel (MLA I AP ’23) for “Environmental Commoning in Loktak Lake, Manipur”
Marina Recio (MLA I ’22) for “Seeing Through Lichen: Making Air Pollution Visible in Mexico City”
Scarlet Rendleman (MLA I ’22) for “Animate Entanglements: Spiritual Ecologies of Native Hawai’ian Land-based Ethics and Practices”
Kevin Robishaw (MLA I ’23) for “Never the Same River Twice: Un-Damming and Re-Designing America’s Rivers”
Berit Schurke (MLA I ’22) for “Of Shifting Coastlines: Articulating Arctic Coastal Adaptation Strategies in Anticipation of the Deep Thaw”
Rebecca Shen (MLA I AP ‘23) for “Tending Sanctuary: Exploring Entanglements of Land Stewardship and Multispecies Community at Vine Sanctuary”
Liwei Shen (MLA I ’22) & Ying Zhang (MLA I ’22) for “Atlas of Post-Afforested Desert Landscape: An Ecological Study of the Mu Us Desert’s Greening Effort in China’s Three-North Shelter Forest Program”
Elaine Stokes (DDes ’24) for “Dammed Landscapes: Riparian Infrastructure at the Mississippi’s Headwaters”
Juan Villalon (MAUD ’22) & Kawthar Marafi (MLA I AP ’23) for “Aceituna/Zaytoon landscapes: Olive Tree Cultivation Atlas across the Trans-Gibraltar Region”
Erin Voss (MLA I ’23) for “The Implication of Cultural Seascapes for the Design and Management of Polynesian Islands”
Rachaya Wattanasirichaigoon (MAUD/MLA I AP ’24) for “The Lightscapes of Fireflies”
Sijia Zhong (MLA I AP ’22) for “Land the Void”
2021 Winners
Ayami Akagawa (MLA I ‘21) for “Feeling Rooted: Recovery from Natural Disaster and Identity Expression in New Home through Incremental Green Infrastructures in the Philippines”
Chun Chen (MLA I AP ‘21) & Sohun Kang (MArch I ‘21) for “Landscapes of Women of Seas: Ama and Haenyeo”
Echo Chen (MLA I ‘21) for “Cultural Identities in Intangible Heritages: An Ethnologic Study of the Rural Communities Featuring the Covered Bridge in Southeast China”
Jake Deluca (MLA I AP ‘22) for “Un-Living Record: In Analysis of Our Social and Psychological Relationship to the Cemetery”
Ian Erickson (MArch I ‘24) for “On Becoming Productive: Representing Shifting Regimes of Value Extraction in the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Territory”
Lianliu Guo (MLA I AP ‘22) & Tianyu Su (DDes ‘23) for “How Healthy Are They Doing in the Parks?: Understanding Urban Parks’ Perceived Health Impacts on Visitors Using Large-Scale Spatial Data”
Aijing Li (MUP ‘22) & Claire Wang (MUP ‘22) for “Parks on the Edge: Big Data Analytics on Park Visits in Segregated Neighborhoods”
Alison Maurer (MLA I ‘22) for “Renewal and Reciprocal Labor: Exploring Iceland’s Ecologically Driven Economic Recovery”
Caleb Negash (MArch I ‘22) & Sam Valentine (MLA II ‘21) for “Hope in the Dismal: Interpreting Landscapes of Self-Determination and Self-Liberation in the Great Dismal Swamp”
Lara Prebble (MLA I ‘23) for “Learning Through Play: Exploring the Roles of Outdoor Learning Environments in Finnish and Sámi Finland”
Julia Rice (MLA I ‘22) for “Perspectivist Agriculture: Reimagining Modern Food Systems through Indigenous Knowledge”
Polly Sinclair (MLA I ‘21) & Ada Thomas (MLA I ‘21) for “The Spatial Imagination of Satoyama: Engaging Field Methods for Expanded Knowledge Production in Landscape Architecture”
Shi Tang (MLA II ‘21) & Xiaoji Zhou (MLA II ‘23) for “Deaf Space in Landscape Design: Making Deaf Visible Through Spatial Investigation and Community Engagement in Wuhan, China”
Michele Turrini (MLA II ‘21) for “Sacrificial Land: Working with Peripheral Communities in Bangkok’s Decision-Making Watershed”
Morgan Vought (MLA I ‘22) for “If You Don’t Build Anything, You Don’t Exist: Redefining Tribal Recognition in Western Courts through Critical Ethnobotanical Cartography”
2020 Winners
Lamia Almuhama (MLA I AP ’20) and Sarah Fayad (MLAUD ’20) for “Fragile Landscapes: The Effect of Temporal Habitation on the Arabian Desert’s Ecosystem”
Kuan-Ting Chen (MDes EE ’21) and Yun-Ting Tsai (MLA I AP ’20) for “Pioneering Watersheds: Shifting Culture of Hydrological System in Taiwanese Hakka Settlements”
Bert De Jonghe (MDes ULE ’21) for “Greenland in Transit”
Isabella Frontado (MLA I and MDes ADPD ‘20) for “Maintained Future Histories of Disappeared Ground”
Brittany Giunchigliani (MLA I ’21) for “Inundate: Visualizing Boundaries of Contamination in the Greater Houston Area”
Alana Godner-Abravanel (MLA I ’21) for “Rebuilding Paradise: Living with Fire in Northern California”
Juan David Grisales (MLA I AP and MDes ULE ’21) for “Re-Mapping Humboldt’s 1807 ‘Tableau Physique’ Through Climate Change: An Upslope Biogeographical Migration on the Tropical Andes”
Shira Grosman (MLA I AP and MDes ULE ’21) and Jonathon Koewler (MLA I AP ’20) for “Extraction in the Public Domain: Projecting Environmental Repercussions of Greens Creek Mine in Tongass National Forest”
Saeb Ali Khan (MAUD ’20) and Supriya Ambwani (MLA I ’22) for “City of Memories: Mapping and Reconstructing Hyderabad’s Water Network”
Esther Kim (MLA I ’21) for “Thawing Edges: Capturing Subarctic Permafrost Temporal Dynamism through Photogrammetry”
Gena Morgis (MLA II ’21) for “Flood from Within: Mapping Systemic Failures and Future Opportunities for Water Infrastructure in the Mississippi River Basin”
Alykhan Neky (MLA I AP ’21) for “A Dying Tradition”
Maxwell Smith-Holmes (MLA I ’21) for “Landscape, Infrastructure, and Traces of ‘Total Planning’ in St. Petersburg, Russia”
Alysoun Wright (MLA I AP and MUP ’21) for “Forest Management in ‘Feral Forests’: The Social Transformation and Afforestation of Rural Portugal”
2020 Winners (GSD-Courances Design Residency)
Caroline Craddock (MLA I ’21) for “Balancing Historic Conservation and Climatic Adaptation at the Château de Courances”
Dominic Riolo (MLA I ’21) for “Courances as Sustaining, Proto-Modernist Garden”
2019 Winners
Colin Chadderton (MLA ’20) for “Sensors in the Landscape: A Literature Review of Current Sensor Deployment in Landscapes, and Three Case Studies of their Application in Peatlands”
Kira Clingen (MLA ’20) and Edyth Jostol (MLA ’20) for “Falling Stands: The Role of Climate Change, Cultivation and Culture surrounding Cryptomeria Japonica in the 21st century”
Armida Fernández (MDes RR ’20) and Luis Enrique Flores (MLA ’19) for “Designing with Communities of the Agricultural Industry in Mexico”
Dana Hills (MLA ’20) for “Newborn Lakes in Glacier National Park: Investigating the Succession of Lakes Created by the Acceleration of Glacial Melting”
Zoe Holland (MLA ’20) and McKenna Mitchell (MLA ’20) for “Earth, Wind, and Fiber: Imaging Marseille’s Digital Landscape”
Cecilia Huber (MLA ’20) for “Patchwork Horizon: Patterns of Resource Conservation and Farm Subsidies in the American Prairie Landscape”
Kimberley Huggins (MLA ’20) for “River as a Person”
Malika Leiper (MUP ’19) and Connie Trinh (MLA ’20) for “Urban Fabrics: Garments, Textiles and Urbanization in Cambodia”
Ting Liang (MLA and MAUD ’19) for “The Socialist Utopia: Reconciliation Between City and Countryside Field Investigation of Preexisting People’s Communes in Rural China”
Jeffrey S. Nesbit (DDes ’20) for “Soil for Space: A Critical History of Earthmoving at Cape Canaveral”
Adam Kai Chi Ng (MLA ’19) and Qiaoqi Dai (MLA ’19) and Xiwei Shen (MLA ’19) for “Eco-Immigrant”
Stefano Romagnoli (MLA ’19) and Soledad Patiño (MAUD ’20) for “Fracking Landscapes: The Vaca Muerta Case during the World’s Energy Transition”
Kari Roynesdal (MLA ’20) for “Queer Ecologies: Controversial Human + Plant Communities”
Zishen Wen (MLA ’19) for “Brownfield on Extraterritoriality: Waste Disposed of in Global, Recycled in Rural China”
Chohao Victor Wu (MLA ’19) for “Camouflage Island: Re-Imagining the Contested Landscape of Kinmen”
Ziwei Zhang (MDes ULE ’20) for “Whose Maps are These? Mapping versus Indigenous Forest Spatiality in West Kalimantan, Indonesia”
2019 Winners (GSD-Courances Design Residency)
Michael Cafiero (MLA ’20) for “Regenerative Connections”
Yoni Angelo Carnice (MLA ’20) for “The World Was My Garden”
2018 Winners
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Joan Chen (MLA ’19) for “Duplicity of Landscape: Re-imaging Design Interventions in Rural Southwest China”
Lanie Cohen (MLA ’19) for “Recession Ecologies in Las Vegas, Nevada: A case for how economic latencies and themed casinos provide a new model for ecological urbanism”
Mark D. Heller (MLA/MUP ’19) for “Slash and Burn: Reconciling Riau’s Illegal Palm Landscape Through Mapping”
Emily Hicks and Melody Stein (both MLA ’19) for “Upstream: Wild Rice, Food Sovereignty, and 10,000 lakes in the Northern Minnesota Watershed”
Jenjira Holmes (MLA ’19) for “Hydrophyte Invasion: Mapping Chao Phraya’s Aquatic Ecological Structure with Water Hyacinth”
Danica Liongson (MLA ’19) for “Beauty & Bounty: The Threatened Legacy of Olive Trees in the Mediterranean”
Deni Lopez (MDes/MAUD ’19) and Nadyeli Quiroz (MLA ’19) for “Disaster as an Opportunity: Alternatives for Debris Management at Los Perros’ Riverbank in Oaxaca, Mexico”
Grace Suthata Jiranuntarat (MArch ’19) and Sonny Xu (MArch/MLA ’18) for “Chemical Valley: Site Investigation of Sarnia, Aamjiwnaang First Nation and CN Rail”
Isaac Stein (MDes/MLA ’20) and Maggie Tsang (MDes ’19) for “Lines in the Sand: Submerged Property and the Paradoxical Landscapes of Gulf Coast Barrier Islands”
Amanda Walker (MLA ’19) for “Red Dirt – Patterns of Exploitation: The Case of Bauxite Mining in Jamaica”
Anson Ting Fung Wong (MLA ’19) for “Stone Wall Trees: ‘Unconventional’ Urban Landscape in Hong Kong”
2018 Winners (GSD-Courances Design Residency)
Mariel Collard (MLA/ MDes ’19)
Juan David Grisales (MLA/ MDes ’20)
2017 Winners
Madeleine Aronson (MLA ’18): Wild Mushroom Economies and Landscape Disturbance: Leveraging the Social and Ecological Potential of Wild Mushrooms in the Pacific Northwest
Tami Banh (MArch/MLA ’18): Engineered Nature: Studying the History of Ecological Intensification in Lower Mekong Basin through Critical Cartography
Michelle Benoit and Matthew Wong (both MLA ’18): Alternate Futures
Emily Drury (MLA ’18): Representing Representation: The Voting District & Redistricting as Grounded Site of Inquiry
Gideon Finck (MLA ’18): Untrammeled by Design
Yousef Hussein (MArch ’18): Kuwait’s Urban Landscape: The Aerial View of Modernist Colonial Planning
Charlotte Leib (MLA ’18) Surveying Sites Unseen: Trees, Representation, and Power in the 19th Century American Preservation and Conservation Movement
Alison Malouf (MLA ’18) Great Expectations: Designing for Privacy in the Smart City
Stacy Passmore (MLA ’18): From Drain Age to Retain Age: The Beaver’s Tale of Arid Landscapes: An Illustrated Catalogue
Estello Raganit (MLA ’19): Queering Landscapes: Cruising, Sexual Performance, and Social Liberation in Dongdan Park, Beijing, China
Phia Sennett (MLA ’19) Piscary: Impressions of Fishing Gear in the Salish Sea
2016 Winners
Oliver Curtis (MDes ’17; Energy & Environments concentration) Wildfires at the Wildland-Urban Interface: Adaption and Feedback
Alberto Embriz de Salvatierra (MLA/MDes ’17; Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology MDes concentration) Reed Urbanism: Grass Infrastructures in the Floating City of Uros
Ellen Epley (MLA ’17) Lay of the Land: Visualizing the Permitting Structure for Surface Mining and Reclamation in the United States and Canada
Kent Hipp (MLA ’17) Drought in Melbourne: Surveying a Landscape of Water Scarcity
Jia Joy Hu (MLA ’17) Iceland Afforestation: Envisioning Value in a Treeless Landscape
Justin Kollar (MArch/MUP ’17) Landscape Colonization/Cultivation: Collective Memory and Politics of the Taiwan Sugar Corporation
Qi Xuan (Tony) Li (MLA ’17) Landscape of the Unreal: An Evaluation and Projection of the Hudson River’s Virtual Landscape
Sophie Maguire (MLA ’17) The State of Play: Reimagining the Role of Design in London’s Adventure Playgrounds
Kira Sargent (MLA ’17) Dynamic Climate/Dynamic Engagement: Precedents and Opportunities for Designing with Tidal Flux in a World of Rising Seas
Julia Smachylo (DDes ’19) Nature State: Managed Forest in Southern Ontario
Jonah Susskind (MLA ’17) Urban Lumber Resource Management: An Investigation of New Growth Along the American Rust Belt
Jane Zhang (MDes ’17; Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology concentration) Food as a Carrier of Cultural Memory: Mapping the Vernacular Landscapes of Stone Oak Tofu in Zhejiang, China
2015 Winners
Weaam Alabdullah (MLA I AP) – The Pearl Roundabout: Monumentality of a Political Landscape
Amin Alsaden (PhD in Architecture, Landscape & Urbanism) – FRONTIERS OF POSSIBILITY: MAPPING BAGHDAD’S IMPOSSIBLE DIVISIONS
Larissa Belcic (MLA I) – ROBOTIC COLONIZATION: Sensory Experience and the Planetary Analog as Design Strategy for Outer Space Occupation
Sarah Bolivar (MLA I) and Jessica Booth (MLA I) – Ascent: An Inland Response to Coastal Resilience in Japan
Azzurra Cox (MLA I) – ALTITUDINAL PORTRAITS: Transect as Ethnographic Map in Urban Bolivia
Ghazal Jafari (DDes) – EXTENDED LANDSCAPE OF MILITARIZATION: The Next Canadian Arctic
Mary Miller (MLA I AP), with Joseph Watson (University of Pennsylvania) – Wild Interfaces: The Western Wildlands Network and a New North American Territoriality
Marianne Potvin (PhD in Urban Studies) – HUMANITARIAN URBANISM AND THE CHANGING GEOGRAPHIES OF REFUGE
Chella Strong (MLA I) – Harvesting in the Interstices: An Investigation of Urban Vegetation Foraging in Three American Cities
Emily Wettstein (MArch I/MLA I AP), with Jacob Lipton (Harvard Law School) – tehm foh it: food insecurity in Sierra Leone
Longfeng Wu (MDes ULE) – Cybernetic Organism: The Intervention of Mechanization in Traditional Dike-pond Landscape, Pearl River Delta, China
2014 Winners
Dalal Alsayer (MDes ULE) – Hidden Space | Social Space: Migrant Workers and their Spaces in the GCC
Rebekah Armstrong (MLA I) and Vanessa Moon (MLA I AP/MUP) – Green Desert: Acacia saligna and Atriplex nummularia in Region IV, Chile
Christopher Bennett (MDes ULE) – DredgeShed: Sand as Landscape, Sand as Commodity, Sand as Gold
Jasper Campshure (MArch) – Papas chilotas: The Agricultural Crop as the Basis for Establishing Hereditary Land Rights in the Chiloé Archipelago
Dane Carlson (MLA II) – Descent: following the kali gandaki down from the roof of the world
Manuel Colon Amador (MLA I AP), Michalis Pirokka (MLA I AP), and Hector Tarrido-Picart (MLA I AP/MAUD) – Urban Wild Lab: Remote Sensing Landscapes and Urban Ecologies
Danika Cooper (MLA I AP/MDes ULE) – Dust Kingdom: A Description of Dust in the American Southwest
Anya Domlesky (MLA I) – Surveying Environmental Landscape Modeling: Three Physical Modelers of Coastal Processes
Michelle Franco (MLA I) – We Ground Things Now, On Moving Foundations: Landscape Film in Theory & Practice
Christina Geros (MLA I AP/MAUD) and Zannah Matson (MLA I) – Redefining Urban: Kotzebue, Alaska as a Case Study for the dual influences of settlement and junction
Stephanie Hsia (MLA I) – The Almond and the Bee: Investigating Landscape Interventions for the Greatest Pollination Quandary on Earth
Christopher Johnson (MArch I AP) – Recreational Squatting: Skate Culture and the Appropriation of Infrastructural Landscapes
Mikaela Pearson (MLA I AP) and David Pearson (MArch II) – Unearthing Larrea tridentate: Micro-Mapping Extensive Fibrous Root Structures
Pablo Perez Ramos (DDes; GSD MLA I AP ’12) – Gardens of Impossibility: Comparative Study of Agricultural Landscape Morphologies in Arid Environments
Craig Reschke (MLA I AP) with Ann Lui (MIT MArch) – Grafted Fields: Wrestling Dirt and Data from the Combine CommandCenter
Jennifer Saura (MLA I) – Landscapes of Resistance: Re-mapping Occupation in Post-crisis Spain
Phoebe White (MLA I) – Revealing Territories: The Historic and Projective Role of the Image in the Post-Glacial Swiss Alps
2013 Winners
Christopher Alton (MDesS ULE) – Wood / Buffalo: Treaty 8 in the Century of Bitumen
Erik Andersen (MLA I) and Senta Burton (MLA I) – Rangelands: Expanding Frontiers for Bison bison bison
Alexander Arroyo (MLA I) – Terra in Extremis Toward ‘the Ends of the Earth’: Oceanic Urbanization in the Aleutian Archipelago
Naz Beykan (MDesS E&E) and Venkata Krishna Kumar Matturi (MDesS ULE) – Atolls of Waste: Investigating waste networks of island nation of Maldives in the context of Indian Ocean
Carolyn Deuschle (MLA I)- Darjeeling Tea: How Geographic Indication in a Global Marketplace Affects the Ground
William DiBernardo (MLA II) – The Satellite and the Sensor: Dry Data and the Sensing Paralax
Vineet Diwadkar (MLA I AP) and Tamer Elshayal (MDesS RR) – Coastal Membrane: Engineered Flows Across the Nile Delta Estuary
Lauren Elachi (MLA I) and Lindsey Nelson (MLA I) – Concealing the Past, Projecting the Deep Future: Experiments in Environmental Forecasting at the Onkalo Nuclear Waste Repository
Judy Fulton (MArch I) and Hokan Wong (MArch I) – The Terrestrial Data Cloud: on Digital-Infrastructural Territories in Northern Europe
Jason Hoeft (MArch II) and Will Lambeth (MArch II) – Landscapes of Disappearance: Addressing Emerging Design Challenges in the Rapidly Changing Landscape of Greenland
Justin Jackson (MLA I AP)- Material Implications: Brick Fields + Rapid Urbanization in Bangladesh
Kelly Murphy (MLA II) – Sown Together: Mapping the edge between Ljubljana and the Barje
Hope Strode (MLA I AP) – The Geography of Strip Mining: Mapping the Effects of Strip Mining in Central Appalachia
Marrikka Trotter (PhD in Landscape and Urbanism) – Planetary Risk in the Urban Imaginary: Lisbon After 1755
Anne Weber (MLA I) – Imaging the Invisible: Documenting the Post-Nuclear Landscape
2012 Winners
Anna Cawrse (MLA II) – Paper Streets of Pittsburgh
Rachael Cleveland (MLA I) – Spontaneous Urban Vegetation and the Shrinking City: Refiguring the urban ground in Berlin, Dessau-Rosslau and the Ruhrgebiet
McKenna Cole (MLA I AP) and Ellen Garrett (MLA I AP) – Hydrologic Impact of Maritime Industry: A case study | Ingalls Shipyard Pascagoula, MS
Carolyn Deuschle (MLA I), Emily McMillan (MLA I), and Nicolas Rivard (MAUD) – Border Urbanism: Understanding public space in the Texas Colonias
Karyssa Halstead (MLA I AP) and Mara Katherine Smaby (MLA I) – Pistil Whip: Spatializing networks in the ecuadorian floriculture industry
Connie Migliazzo (MLA I ) – Economies of Waste: Industrial hog farm infrastructure in rural Netherlands
Mark Pomarico (MLA I AP) and Judith Rodriquez (MLA I AP / MAUD) – Post Tsunami Satoyama: Restoring Mosaics from Mountain to Sea
Nathan Shobe (MArch I) and Emmet Truxes (MArch I) – Cloudscapes + the Geomorphically Constrained City: Timelapse photography in La Guajira Peninsula and Medellín, Colombia
2011 Winners
Spring
Rebecca Bartlett (MLA I) – Disaster Resiliency through Water Purification; Sri Lankan Mangrove Ecosystem Services
Travis Bost (MDesS) – Adaptive Opportunism of Infrastructural Landscapes in the Mississippi Delta
Michael Clement (MLA I) – Back to the Earth: Reinventing the Burial Ground
Emily Gordon (MLA I) – Everyman’s Rights: Foraging Finland
Brendan Kellog (MArch I) and Bea Camacho (MArch I) – Farming a Landscape in Crisis: The Design and Construction of Raised Fields in the Beni Region of Bolivia
Dongsei Kim (MDesS) – The Demilitarized Zone : Redrawing the Border Between North and South Korea
Kees Lokman(MDesS) – In Search of Niagara
Fadi Masoud (MLA II) – Deir E’lla – Border Town – Jordan River Valley
Marcus Owens (MDesS) – Animal Infrastructure, Moscow
Jason Rebillot (DDes) – Experimental Field: Urban Practice in the Rhineland
Emily Schlickman (MLA I) – The Ghost Fleet Landscape
Anne Schmidt (MLA I) – Recording Deviations – Drawing a Section of America
Fall
Steven Chen (MAUD) and Xiaowei Wang (MLA I) – Nomadology of the City: Rural-urban Transhumance in Ulaan Baatar
Lucas Correa-Sevilla (MAUD) and Michelle Ha (March I AP) – Inscribing Water on City: An atlas of access in Iquitos, Peru
Laurent Corroyer (MDesS) – Wasteshed Infrastructure [Margins]
Aneesha Dharwadker (MDesS) – Shifting Grounds: Urban morphologies in the Yamuna Riverbed
Natalya Egon (MArch I) – Salt & Water: The hidden geological infrastructure of two basins
Daniel Ibanez (MDesS) – Productive Urban Landscapes in Cuba
Lisl Kotheimer (MLA II) – Visualizing Boundaries in the Las Vegas Valley
Sara Zewde (MLA I) – Designing Black Space in the Zona Portuaria
2010 Winners
Spring
Aidan Acker (MLA I) – From Policy to Practice: Xeriscape Grant Program in Cathedral City, CA
Jennifer Cooper (MLA II) – Port + Marsh + City
Elisa Benitez Garcia (MLA I AP) – Slate/Global flows: From China to US and Brazil and Vice Versa
Kimberly Garza (MLA II) – Landscape Quick-Stop: Re-conceptualizing the Rest Areas of a Form of American Cultural Identity
Erin Kelly (MLA I) – The Big Stink: Aguas Negras in the Mexico City Metropolitan Zone
Ryan Madson (MLA I) – Satoyama and the Metropolitan Edge: The “Slow Landscapes” of Tokyo
Christina Milos (MLA I) – From Wadi to Dust: Adaptive Responses to Desertification in the Lake Chad Basin
Alpa Nawre (MLAUD) – Rhaetian Railway in the Albula/Bernina Landscapes
Nancy Seaton (MLA I) – Trees in a Treeless Land
Stephanie Tam (MArch I) – An Ecology of Vulnerability: The sewerage Crisis in Ahmedabad, India
Andrew Zientek (MLA II) – The Ecology of Pilgrimage: A Journey to Muktinath, Nepal
Fall
Ted Baab (MArch I) and Nicole Huang (MArch I) – The Bonneville Salt Flats: Geo-Mythology in the Desert
Cristina Brodu (MDesS) – Farming and Flooding: The Flourishing Connection of Men and Nature in Mekong River Basin
Jorge Colon (MDesS) – Urban Identity and the Andes Mountains: Mapping a Cultural Geography of Bogota
John Davis (MArch I AP) – Proving Ground: The Landscape of American Automobile Testing
Yao Dong (MAUD) and Di Xia (MArch II) – Bostans: Agricultural Generators for Istanbul’s Urbanization
Kenya Endo (MLA I) – Landscape Point of View in Revitalizing Shrinking Cities II
Kimberly Garza (MLA II) – Revealing Truths at the New Jersey Turnpike: Cataloging Invisible Networks and Flows at the Turnpike
Tiffany Lau (MArch I) – Human-Scaled Innovation in the Growing “Waste” lands of India
Forbes Lipschitz (MLA I) – Meat Matters: Examining the Global Poultry Industry in Northwest Arkansas
Aisling Marie O’Carroll (MLA I AP) – Urban Innovations in Soil Mechanics
Conor O’Shea (MLA II) – Surveying Chicago’s Infrastructure at the NEwberry Library Map Collection
Natalia Polunina (MLA I) – Modification of Geomorphology
2009 Winners
Spring
Lana Cohen (MLA I) – Experiential Mapping of Bicycle Infrastructure: Interpreting Cyclist Movement through Biking, Barcelona
Sean Corriel (MArch I) – Mixing and Testing Soil-Based Paving Systems
Anthony Di Mari (MArch I) – Catching the Camanchaca: Water Collection Methods in Norte Chico, Chile
Angeliki Evripioti (MAUD) and Sarah Thomas (MLA II) – Murs a peches: a resilient agricultural enclave
Charles R. Howe (MLA I) – The Paraguayan Frontier: Land in Transition
Saehoon Kim (MDesS) – Villages in Transition: Water Scarcity in Rural Landscape China
Wanda Liebermann (DDes) – Reconsidering the Universal Landscape: Het Dorp, The Netherlands
Erik Prince (MLA II) – Ogallala Aquifer/High Plains
Leah Rominger (MLA I) – The Montado: Portugal’s Landscape of Economy, Ecology, and Regional Identity
Justin Scherma (MLA I) – Allotment Gardens in the Stockholm Urban Region
Max Hooper Schneider (MLA I) – Therapeutic Gardens for Children in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Shannon Simms (MLA I) and Vanessa Cheung (MLA I) – Urban Agricultural Systems in Cuba: How farms fit into Havana, Cienfuegos, and Santa Clara
Fall
Sharma Abhishek (MLA I AP, MAUD) and Richa Shukla (MAUD) – GREENHOUSE agriCulture: Campo de Dalias, Almeira Province, Spain
Yonathan M. Cohen (MAUD) – Sacred Geographies – Typologies of Pilgrimage in Tamil Nadu
Anthony Di Mari (MArch I) – Methods of Regenerative Bamboo Shoot Harvesting in Southern Japan
Jianhang Gao (MAUD) – A Well Preserved Ancient Productive Landscape
Dan A. Handel (MArch II) – Checkerboard Cascades: A Journey into the Wilderness of Land Grants and Timber Corporations of the America Northwest
Laura Harmon (MLA I) – After Impact: Bomb Crater Reclamation in Vietnam
Taro Narahara (DDes) – Simulating Informal Settlements: Understanding Correlation between Landform, Environment, and Human Habitations in Yemen
Megan Forney Panzano (MArch I) – Self Storage: A New Infrastructural Surface for Landscape Urbanism
Ryan Shubin (MLA II) – Dhaka’s West Embankment: Infrastructure of Fortification in a Climate of Change
Meghan Spigle (MLA I AP) – Green Walls of Paris: An Ecological Analysis
Dorothy Tang (MLA II) and Andrew Watkins (MAUD) – All That Glitters is Not Gold
Sarah Thomas (MLA II) – Concrete Habitat: Bats in Bridges
Rikako Wakabayashi (MArch I AP) – The Aswan Dam and Its Influences on the River Nile