Weathering the Pandemic empowering landscape architecture students with strategies for challenging current economic and environmental paradigms in ways that fortify their education, talents and skills.
01 Connect the dots and don’t be a ‘canary in the coal mine’
02 Become comfortable with uncertainty and ambiguity
03 Develop emotional intelligence
04 Know the Green New Deal and follow the McHarg Center
05 Hone your time management and self-motivation skills
06 Become an environmental activist
07 Use or learn a 2nd or 3rd language and be willing to relocate to the country of that language
08 Contemplate and define identity of self, community and place
09 Dive into disciplinary news, trends and analyze what you learn
10 Become a futurist
11 Become a student of human behavior
12 Develop financial literacy
13 Learn ethical self-promotion
14 Research how diseases and epidemics have shaped cities
15 Investigate the intersection of climate change, human health and ecosystem health
16 Be a student of culture
17 Be ready to design at all scales
18 Know how to calculate your project’s CO2 levels and carbon footprint
19 Understand social distancing in relationship to breathing spaces
20 Understand de-centralization and the suburban high street as economic and employment stimulators through infrastructure spending
21 Become a life-long-learner and make yourself an essential expert
22 Supplement and diversify your education and experience with additional and multi-disciplinary studies
23 Develop specialties
24 Learn to translate companies’ job descriptions
25 Define and practice self-care and resiliency
26 Recover from perfectionism