Professional Awards
2024
Fuller Initiative Land Lab (Design Principal)
Design Futurist Top Prize, Pacific Horticulture
2023
Oregon Experience Laboratory Exhibition (Design Principal)
Honor Award in Pro-Bono Design, Oregon Society of Landscape Architects
Green Ribbon Award for Climate Action, Oregon Society of Landscape Architects
2022
Oregon Experience Laboratory Exhibition (Design Principal)
Exhibition Sponsorship, Travel Oregon / Oregon Tourism Commission
2018
Fisher Hill Reservoir Park ( Landscape Designer, KMDG)
Winner in Landscape Architecture / Public, Architecture Masterprize
Merit Award in Design, Boston Society of Landscape Architects
2016
Field Moiré (Landscape Designer, KMDG)
Competition Finalist, Jardin de Metis International Garden Festival
Academic Awards
2023
Willamette River Overlook, Dorae Hankin (Faculty Advisor)
Honor Award in Student Design, Oregon Society of Landscape Architects
2022
Recovery following Wildfire, Overlook Field School (Faculty Co-Advisor)
Honor Award in Student Communication, American Society of Landscape Architects
2021
Algae as Agents, Aaron Woolverton (Faculty Advisor)
Honor Award in Student Research, American Society of Landscape Architects
2019
The Cyano-Secchi, Carolyn Corl (Faculty Co-Advisor)
Honor Award in Student Design, Oregon Society of Landscape Architects
Experimental 3D Printed Soil Sculpture Garden, Heather Tietz (Faculty Advisor)
Honor Award in Student Design, Oregon Society of Landscape Architects
Good Drainage, Good Vibes, UO Team #D22 (Faculty Co-Advisor)
1st place, EPA RainWorks Challenge
2013
University of Virginia Student Merit Award (MLA)
Virginia Society of Landscape Architects
School of Architecture Research Fellow (MLA)
University of Virginia
Press
2025
Pacific Horticulture, “In Oregon, Award-winning Campus Experiment Reveals a New Way to Maintain Landscapes,” Erica Browne Grivas
2022
The Oregonian, “Use an augmented reality game in Eugene to travel across Oregon,” Samantha Swindler
KEZI 9 News, “New ‘living lab’ at Riverfront Park brings natural wonders to Eugene,” Robert Desaulniers
KLCC, “Eugene riverfront lab showcases UO research,” Karen Richards
In the Field, On the Field, “A lab for all the world to see,” Jim Murez
2020
KLCC, “City Club of Eugene: Reimagining Monuments,” Love Cross
2019
Landscape Architecture Magazine, “Lawnmower Man,” Zach Mortice
Eugene Magazine, “Vertical Planting: The Advantages of Planting a Living Wall,” Cheryl Rade
2018
Bike Portland, “Foster’s neon lights inspire greenway improvement project” Jonathan Maus
2014
Places Journal, “From Architecture to Landscape: The Case for a New Landscape Science,” Davis, B. and Oles, T.
Presentations
2025
“LND LAB | case studies in the establishment of an experimental landscape”
Beyond Maintenance NSL Colloquium, ETH-Zurich
“Design through Maintenance | the LND LAB approach”
Department of Landscape Architecture, Cornell University
“Recovering Maintenance | Rapid Response and Slow Evolution”
Annual Conference of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, Portland, OR
2023
“Riverfront Ecologies and (In)Equity” (Panel)
Design Futures Forum, University of Oregon
2022
“Re-Imagining Post-Covid Landscape Design Education” (Panel)
Annual Design Symposium of the Oregon Society of Landscape Architects
“Cultivating a Design Practice of Land Care | Teaching at the Intersection of Land and Labor” (Panel)
Annual Conference of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, Albuquerque, NM
“Founding a Sustainable Culture Through a Faculty & Facilities Partnership” (Panel)
Washington Oregon Higher Education Sustainability Conference, Seattle, WA
“Terrestrial Practices | Experimental Maintenance”
Department of Landscape Architecture, UT-Austin
2021
“Terrestrial Practices | Experimental Maintenance”
Land Lab Lecture Series, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Virginia
Institute for Ecology & Evolution, University of Oregon
2020
“Terrestrial Practices | Experimental Maintenance”
Department of Landscape Architecture, Ohio State University
“Recovering Maintenance | rapid response and slow evolution”
Making-Do in Urbanism and the Arts Conference, Slowlab, University of Oregon
“To Hold in Hand | care as the essence of maintenance”
Care Practices Symposium, University of Oregon
2019
Tactical Suburbanism” (Workshop)
HOPES 25 Conference: Destructive Idealism, University of Oregon
“Transitory Public Works | maintenance as a design instrument in landscape architecture”
Annual Conference of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, Davis, CA
Adaptive Social Space | tactical design in the suburban landscape”
Annual Conference of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, Davis, CA
Scholarship
2025
“LND LAB | case studies in the establishment of an experimental landscape” (forthcoming)
Beyond Maintenance: Responsive Practices for Changing Landscapes, Publisher TBD
“Recovering Maintenance | Rapid Response and Slow Evolution,” (Accepted)
Making Do in Urbanism and the Arts, Ed. Liska Chan and Ellee Stapleton, Amsterdam University Press
2023
“Voices from Abroad,” (Contributing co-author)
Woods Go Urban: The Alnarp Approach, Ed. Anders Busse Nielsen and Lisa Diedrich
2022
“Viridic Disturbance | reprogramming the tools of landscape maintenance,” (Co-author)
LA+ 15: GREEN, University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design, ORO Editions
“Field Mechanics,” (Contributing author)
Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape and the Postnatural. Ed. Cathryn Dwyre, Chris Perry, David Salomon, Kathy Velikov, Actar Publishers.
2021
“Landscape Design through Maintenance | field case studies in parametric mowing,” (Author)
Landscape Journal vol 39, issue 2, University of Wisconsin Press
2020
“Terrestrial Practices | pulling landscape back to earth.” (Author)
Kerb 28: Co-existence, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Actar Publishers
2019
“Landscape sub(Urbanism) | reclaiming the vance pits” (Editor)
Professional Publication for Multnomah County Department of Community Services
“Oregon Timber Trail Field Guide - Willamette Tier” (Editor)
Professional Publication for the Oregon Timber Trail Alliance
2014
“Editing Emergence: surface of layered maintenance” (Author)
surfaceFX, University of Virginia, Paper Matters Press
2013
“From Landscaping to Infrastructure | the scope and agency of maintenance” (Author)
Scenario Journal, Issue 4: Rethinking Infrastructure
“Editing Emergence | towards a generative maintenance practice” (Author)
Catalyst, Issue 1: Conditions/Responses, University of Virginia, Actar Publishers
“Backbone Market | transecting charlottesville’s regulatory topography” (Co-Author)
Catalyst, Issue 1: Conditions/Responses, University of Virginia, Actar Publishers
2011
Case Study Investigation: Teardrop Park, Richmond Canal Walk, and Avalon Park and Preserve (Research Assistant w/ Kristina Hill, PhD)
Landscape Performance Series, Landscape Architecture Foundation
Exhibitions
2024
“Reclamation.” (Director and Curator)
U.S. Track & Field Olympic Trials, University of Oregon
“Recovery Following Wildfire | student work from the 2021 overlook field school.” (Director & Curator)
After the Flames, Coalitions & Collaboratives, Estes Park, Colorado
2023
“Cryptic Sounds.” (Director and Curator)
Willamette River Natural Area, University of Oregon
“Recovery Following Wildfire | student work from the 2021 overlook field school.” (Director & Curator)
Stories of Fire: Ground Truths, Prichard Art Gallery, University of Idaho Confluence Lab
“Difficult Landscapes | student work from the 2019 overlook field school.”
Transpecies Design Exhibition, curated by Adrian Parr, European Cultural Center in conjunction with the Venice Architecture Biennale
2022
“Oregon Experience Laboratory.” (Director & Curator)
World Athletics Championships, University of Oregon
“Landscape Makers Exhibition.” (Co-curator)
Laverne Krauss Gallery, University of Oregon College of Design
2021
“Recovery Following Wildfire | student work from the 2021 overlook field school.” (Director & Curator)
Mt. Pisgah Arboretum, Eugene, OR
2020
“Field Mechanics,” (Video Installation)
Ambiguous Territory Exhibition, Handwerker Gallery at Ithaca College
2019
“Difficult Landscapes | student work from the overlook field school.” (Program Manager & Curator)
Wallace and Grace Hayden Gallery, University of Oregon College of Design
“Field Mechanics,” (Video Installation)
Ambiguous Territory Exhibition, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY
2018
Editing Emergence | towards a generative maintenance practice,”
Wallace and Grace Hayden Gallery, University of Oregon College of Design
“Field Mechanics,” (Video Installation)
Ambiguous Territory Exhibition, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
2017
“Field Mechanics,” (Video Installation)
Ambiguous Territory Symposium, University of Michigan Taubman College, Ann Arbor, MI