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Richard Hindle, University of California Berkeley
LECTURE TITLE: Can Landscape Architects Invent Landscape Technology?
The primary scope of landscape architecture since the profession was founded more than a century ago relates to the creation of site-design and master-planning documents, construction administration for designed landscape, consultation for landscape projects, and other works related to realization of public/private outdoor space. In this context, the notion of the Landscape Architect as technologist and innovator is a provocation that promises to expand, or upend, disciplinary boundaries entrenched in lore, praxis, and legalese. A shift of disciplinary agenda towards landscape technology & science instigates a reconfiguration of research outputs, economics, and professional praxis. It also reveals the limited agency of the “site-plan” and “mapping” as techniques for the projection of technological innovation, destabilizing the traditions on which the contemporary profession was built. Given this history, is it possible to a shift the “landscape architect” from end-user and consumer of technology, to creator, producer, and innovator?
Biography
Richard Hindle is a designer, innovator, and educator. He teaches courses in ecological technology, planting design, and site design studios. Professor Hindle’s research focuses on technology in the urban and regional landscape with an emphasis on material processes, innovation, and patents. His current research explores innovation in landscape related technologies across a range of scales, from large-scale mappings of riverine and coastal patents to detailed historical studies on the antecedents of vegetated architectural systems. A recurring theme in Hindle’s work is the tandem history, and future, of technology, city and landscape. His writing and making explores environmental futurism as chronicled in patent documents and the potential of new technological narratives and material processes to reframe theory, practice, and the production of landscape. He is a published author with articles appearing in the Journal of the Patent Office Society (JPTOS), Journal of Landscape Architecture (JOLA), Journal of Architectural Education (JAE), Landscape Architecture Magazine (LAM), The Plan Journal, UC Berkeley’s Ground-Up Journal, and Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes. In 2012 he received a Graham Foundation Award for the reconstruction of the “Vegetation-Bearing Architectonic Structure and Systems” and continues to explore the technological origins of other emergent technologies. Richard has worked as a consultant and designer, specializing in the design of advanced horticultural and building systems, from green roofs and facades to large-scale urban landscapes.
