Professional Practice
The Artistic Overlay: Making Wild Legible (Session 7) Ecology-based Landscape Practice Virtual Intensive Course
Date: 8/26/2025 - 8/26/2025
Description:
Instructor: Larry Weaner, FAPLD
Ecological design need not be a bitter aesthetic pill that our clients must swallow to do the right thing. The order inherent in our wild native landscapes is widely considered beautiful. By translating that ecology-based order into the aesthetically based language of fine garden design, the results can be much more universally embraced by our clients. In addition, Larry will illustrate how highly gardenesque - and even formal - elements can gracefully interact and intermingle with wilder woodland, shrubland and meadow compositions. This approach can result in landscapes that are both ecologically productive and visually pleasing to clients with a variety of aesthetic preferences.
Learning outcomes:
- Examine techniques for translating natural vegetative patterns into legible garden compositions.
- Learn to ‘ameliorate wildness’ through the introduction of formal planted and constructed elements into the landscape composition.
- Learn to use natural succession as a model for creating landscapes that change compositionally over time, and add a fourth dimension to the user’s experience.
Recording viewable for 3 months after live event date.