Instructions for Land-Based Learning is an experiment in teaching design. At the same time, it is an invitation to join us, trade, share, and test because our times call for radical collaboration.

Currently on view at the 11th edition of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam: Nature of Hope, is an exhibition featuring our work to date and the book, Everything Change: Instructions for Land-Based Learning.

Across a semester of collaboration between a group of individual practitioner scholars and students pursuing landscape architecture and architecture degrees, we engaged in a messy process of everything change, a term borrowed from poet and author Margaret Atwood that seemed to acknowledge the effort. 

The prompt was simple: How can we strengthen studio-based learning, with land-based learning—and how might that change everything?

This work was made possible through a generous collaboration between professors and students at two institutions on the Indigenous lands of Turtle Island, the ancestral name for what we call North America. 

+ Pratt Institute, Brooklyn 

situated on Lenape land in the temperate deciduous lowland forests of the northeast.

+University of Texas at Austin

situated on Coahuiltecanin land in the humid subtropical prairies and woodlands of the south.