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Fight or Flight: Space Colonization and the Future of Landscape Architecture
When we lose direct access to nature, we lose ourselves. As the planet degrades, Ignacio Bunster-Ossa asks: what is the price of survival? If a SWOT analysis were conducted on human society today, Strengths, Weakness and Opportunities would be overwhelmed by perceived Threats with climate change and AI at the top of the list, closely followed by space colonization. The goal of this essay is to address these threats while attempting to clarify what matters most and why.
One Giant Leap: Colonization and the Future of Landscape Architecture
Ignacio Bunster-Ossa, the Collaborative’s Vice President, Landscape Urbanism and Resiliency, describes the fascinating parallel narratives of space exploration and protecting life on Earth which have surprisingly similar roots: survival.
Can conservatives return to core values?
In this essay, Ed Shoucair, the President of the Collaborative, discusses what it means to be a conservative in today’s world. He says “The values of many conservatives no longer make sense to me. As a child, I learned America’s strength comes from working hard, carefully managing one’s assets, thinking for yourself and tirelessly seeking to form a more perfect union.”
International ‘Superfund’ could ease the human, economic costs of health crises
A superfund to which all countries contribute could ease national debt, find solutions to disease and climate change. Today’s global pandemic makes it clear that lethal viruses are here to stay. Equally evident is the need for new ideas to better address pandemics and the intensifying public health emergency of global warming.
Improving the Ben Franklin Parkway demands smarts and art, not costly engineering
In this article, Ignacio F. Bunster-Ossa, who heads the Landscape Urbanism and Resilience practice at the Collaborative, discusses the importance of incorporating art and technology in the plans for transforming the Benjamin Franklin Parkway into a “21st century” public space.
The Neponset River Greenway
The Neponset River Greenway was named one of America’s “Great Places” by the American Planning Association. The Collaborative led an energetic master planning and design process that created the Greenway and today includes a series of waterfront parks, an 8+ mile multi-use trail, restored wildlife areas and wetlands, interpretive exhibits, a major soccer complex, play areas, and courts.
The Collaborative Awarded Contract to Redesign Amory Park
The Collaborative is pleased to announce the award of a Massachusetts Department of Parks and Recreation contract for design and construction services to redesign Amory Park along the Southwest Corridor in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood.
Collaborative Landscape Architects Complete Major MIT Lincoln Lab Project
The Collaborative’s landscape architecture team recently completed the construction drawing development for the design and construction of a new 160,000 s.f. microelectronics building on MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory campus. The project is currently out to bid.
The Collaborative Completes West End LCI Plan Update
The Collaborative provided planning consulting services to the City of Atlanta on behalf of its Department of City Planning for a major update to the West End Livable Centers Initiative (LCI). The Atlanta Regional Commission’s Livable Centers Initiative Program seeks to prepare and implement plans for the enhancement of existing centers and corridors consistent with regional development policies.