2021 Overlook Field School: Recovery Following Wildfire

Following the record 2020 fire year, Michael directed the Overlook Field School around the theme of “Recovery” in collaboration with Artist-in-Residence, David Buckley Borden. The work draws extensively from field visits to Willamette National Forest fires that have occurred within the last 30 years. Despite the prevailing narrative of catastrophe and destruction, the recovery we observed was incredibly inspirational. Field school participants communicated these experiences through landscape installations to foster an appreciation of the beneficial impacts of fire throughout increasingly longer fire seasons. The final exhibition took place at Mt. Pisgah Arboretum, the largest remnant Oak Savanna in the Willamette Valley.

Overlook Recovery received a Student Honor Award in Communication from the American Society of Landscape Architects in 2022.

Michael Geffel, Director and Program Manager / David Buckley Borden , Artist-in-Residence / Isabela Ospina Rodriguez, Studio Assistant / Nancy Silvers, Studio Assistant
Overlook Participants | Will Bonner, Hannah Chapin, Celia Hensey, Abby Pierce, Kennedy Rauh, Audrey Rycewicz, Masayo Simon, Ian Vierck, Rosie Yerke
Photography by David Paul Bayles and Ignacio Lopez-Buson
The work of the Fuller Initiative for Productive Landscapes is only possible thanks to the generous support of Mort and Sue Fuller (UO Journalism, Class of 1971). 
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