STUDIO TRIP TO BALTIMORE

In February of 2023, the studio spent a week in Baltimore. We spoke with groups working on planning and landscape efforts in the city and surrounding region. The trip had many scheduled meetings with a spectrum of people that both impact and are impacted by physical and political landscape of Baltimore.

We spoke with developers and community leaders and used a lot of time sharing our findings and thoughts in studio meetings between these meetings. We were given a tour of Baltimore by Dan Campo. There was ample time to explore independently as well.

Following the week in Baltimore, groups and individuals began narrowing down sites of focus for the remainder of the semester. In order to explore sites chosen as well as discover new locations of possible intervention, some studio members mapped out sites to visit along I-95 between Philadelphia and Baltimore.

Many of these sites proved to be difficult to access. Significant hunches being followed included post industrial sites within flood zones, marshes and areas to possibly support marshes in the future, and sites cut by I-95 that could be reconnected. There was a focus on the delegation of this space, its vulnerabilities, potentials, and current land use.