Climate Adaptation Planning through a Landscape Lens
November 20th at 4 p.m. MST
About Lecture:
As communities across the West face increasingly extreme climate impacts, including flooding, drought, heat, and wildfire, landscape architects are uniquely positioned to lead adaptation efforts. SCAPE Principal Laura Marett will discuss an approach to shaping climate adaptation planning through a landscape perspective. The talk will highlight the firm's work with UC Berkeley to craft the Landscape Climate Adaptation Plan, a framework that assesses climate risk and translates it into landscape strategy across plant palettes, materials, and stewardship practices. She will explore what it means for landscape architects to lead, not just support, climate adaptation efforts at multiple scales, from campus planning to community-level resilience.
Bio:
Laura Marett, RLA, LEED AP, is a Principal at SCAPE, where her practice spans landscape design and systems planning with an emphasis on resiliency. Her work ranges across scales and project types, from public parks, streetscapes and waterfronts to large-scale landscape planning and campus design. She has particular interest in creating vibrant urban public spaces through an engaged public process and resilience planning with communities. She brings this same lens to ASLA's Climate and Biodiversity Action Committee, where she has served since its founding and currently co-chairs the equity subcommittee. She holds a Master's in Landscape Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor's in literature from Harvard College.