Landscape Seminar Series: Professor and Chair Catherine Harris's Lecture at Pratt School of Architecture
November 6, 2025
Current biological research documents plant scent signals, synapse-like electrical information transfer, vision-like capabilities, and other intelligences thought to be only human. How is landscape architecture required to respond? Landscape architecture designs public space – gardens, parks, squares, streetscapes, road right of ways, national parks – as dynamic forms, changing with climate and cultural norms; it is a discipline that designs with plants and incorporates habitat for animals, birds, and insects. But how can these spaces be designed as sites of non-human communication and sentience? Investigating tools such as wind roses, soil sections, topographies, and demystifying ontologies of relationality, this talk proposes responses in this ongoing dialogue.
In this installment of the Landscape Seminar Series, the Master of Landscape Architecture Program (MLA) welcomes Catherine Harris, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at University of New Mexico and Founder of the Indigenous Design Studio in Landscape Architecture at UNM with the Indigenous Design + Planning Institute
11.14.25 Pratt School of Arc
3-4:30 pm
