About
Publication Format
A digital copy of the zine will be published online via this website and each project will be featured on Instagram, allowing for wider circulation, archiving, and discussion. Let us know if you would like to receive an update once conference proceedings have been published online.
Each contributor will receive a printed copy of the zine, and copies will be available at upcoming landscape conferences. Accepted participants will submit a packaged indesign file / formatted to print as four facing 170mm x 250mm {6.6 x 9.8 in} pages (yes, that’s two small spreads).
Image Rights
Participants will be responsible for image rights for any artwork that they did not create or does not fall under fair use. Participants are encouraged to take the best aspects of zine-making: develop creative transformations of existing images and cite your sources generously. Sampling, annotation, references, and remixes are powerful tools for engaging the work of others. Let’s use them to strengthen a community of open exchange.
Costs
Participation is free, though we will have a limited number of contributing participants for each installment.
This zine is the collaboration between two professors turned friends who have their own libraries of design ideas that never saw the light of day.
Maggie Hansen
Assistant Professor in Landscape Architecture
University of Texas at Austin / School of Architecture
Maggie Hansen is a landscape designer and artist who brings multidisciplinary training to the design of public spaces. She earned a BA from the University of Chicago and worked in contemporary art and theater before turning to design. She holds a Master of Architecture and a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Virginia.
Her design experience includes professional practice and community-based design. As a designer at Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, she contributed to design on award-winning projects at a range of scales. As director of Tulane’s Small Center for Collaborative Design, she led community-based design projects in support of a more equitable New Orleans.
Professor Hansen’s research explores landscape architecture as the choreography of care practices that maintain cultural and ecological relationships. Her work draws influence from social impact design, gardening, theater and performance, participatory art, and activist methods.
Professor Hansen is the recipient of the 2021-22 School of Architecture Award for Outstanding Teaching (Studio). Her students’ design work has been recognized for design excellence through national and state ASLA awards. Prior to joining the UTSOA, she was a Visiting Professor in Landscape Architecture at Pennsylvania State University (with Jennifer!) and a Guest Studio Professor at Kent State University.
Jennifer Birkeland / PLA / FAAR
Assistant Professor in Landscape Architecture
Cornell University / College of Agriculture
Jennifer Birkeland is a licensed landscape architect in the state of New York. She was the recipient of the Mark Hampton Rome Prize in Design with from American Academy in Rome. She holds a BSLA in Landscape Architecture from Cal Poly Pomona, and a Master of Landscape Architecture from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design.
She is the co-founder of the design practice, op-AL, a multidisciplinary studio in Brooklyn, New York, and study the relationships between optics, environment and building in their work. The office approaches design problems by exploring the oppositions established by the vantage points of the two disciplines of focus, resulting in design solutions that strive to disintegrate the subject-object relationship conventionally established between Landscape and Architecture.
Professor Birkeland has been recognized by the LAF, CELA, and ASLA for her teaching, practice, and research.
Prior to joining Cornell, Jennifer was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pennsylvania State University, (where she met Maggie) - and worked for the offices of West 8, OLIN, and Ken Smith.