Present Practice

L.A.N.D. Project

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The L.A.N.D. (Landscape Algorithms for Novel Drawing) Project is a parametric toolkit for drawing ecological change. 

Our ability to communicate change in the environment is limited by our ability to represent it. Across environmental disciplines, intricate ecologies are reduced to static, flat representations. Ecologies like meadows and woodlands are anything but this—they are complex, mutable, and evolving. As the climate warms, a more precise system of representation can reveal how shifts in species composition result in ecological change that threatens landscape health.

This approach to drawing illustrates the interrelationship of various parts of the landscape, how those parts exert an influence on each other, and how they may be used to inform design decisions made on the ground. As with any complex landscape ecology, individual elements within the field propagate locally, superimpose on others, and, ultimately, cede importance to the collective field.