Morgan Quinn

Space for Water

How can landscape architecture approach systems that extend beyond the spatial and temporal scales of the human experience? California’s Central Valley Aquifer is a massive body of subsurface freshwater that formed over millions of years. Unsustainable water management has resulted in significant groundwater depletion and lowering of the water table. Design solutions must rely on alternative disciplinary conceptualizations developed to operate at these scales. Notions used by geologists bridge scales from the microscopic to the continental to understand long-term processes. Space for Water reframes the theoretical basis of these concepts to generate new strategies for water table restoration.

Advisor: Matthew Perotto Winter 2021