letter from the editor

Jeffery Bussey

Thank you for coming to this issue of Georgia Landscape Magazine. Putting together a magazine under typical conditions is arduous work. Resurrecting a magazine from a five year dormancy presents a whole other set of obstacles. I am tremendously proud of the magazine you have in front of you and the work a committed group of undergraduate and graduate students from the CE+D put forth to complete this issue of Georgia Landscape Magazine.

Without having an issue of Georgia Landscape Magazine published since 2018, we found ourselves wondering where to begin. Both excited and terrified at the blank slate in front of us, we chose to turn our focus inward on ourselves as students of the College of Environment and Design and asked what’s going on and why are we, Landscape Architects, Historic Preservationists and Urban Designers, here together. What brings us all together and how does that get expressed? We searched for traces of collaboration, areas where disciplines cross and lines are blurred until they dissolve entirely into one shapeless, uniform study of the built environment.

We decided to keep most of the writing for this issue in-house. Our members researched, wrote, and designed a majority of this piece and are accompanied by other community members such as the Dean, Program Coordinators, and faculty. Throughout, you will encounter articles of cross-discipline interviews, summer revelations, and exciting updates about international academic collaborations and more. These are exciting times here at the CE+D, as departments shift, integrate new technologies, and we emerge and reflect on the impact the global pandemic had on all of us personally and as a collective.

We hope you enjoy this issue of Georgia Landscape Magazine and thank you for your continued support and readership.