Allison E.K. Smith

21 Years: Landscape Architecture Strategies for a Post-Carbon Future

This is a pilot project that aims to initiate the urgently needed shift in landscape architecture design towards not only sequestering carbon, but also considering embodied carbon in materiality, construction, and maintenance. The site is a neighbourhood in the industrial city of Hamilton, Ontario, where the life expectancy of residents is 21 years shorter than in another neighbourhood located only six kilometres away. 21 Years asks the field of landscape architecture to rethink its practice using a systematic approach that tests possible outputs to attain carbon neutral and “climate positive” design solutions for a necessary post-carbon future.

Advisor: Behnaz Assadi Winter 2021