Superstudio Showcase: Reflections from a Year-Long Open Call

This virtual event celebrated and reflected on a year of exploration, innovation, and collaboration by the 3,000 participating designers and students.

The Green New Deal Superstudio was a concerted effort to give form to policy ideas by translating the core goals of decarbonization, justice, and jobs into place-specific design and planning projects. Some 670 projects were submitted through the year-long open call, which attracted the participation of over 90 universities, as well as hundreds of practitioners from across the design disciplines.

In this virtual event on October 28, 2021, four of those tasked with reviewing and curating the submissions critically reflected on the body of work, highlighted key themes, and showed representative examples from the submitted projects. How did the submissions address issues facing their regions? What were the key strategies and ideas? What does this work say about the ability and readiness of the built environment design disciplines to make large-scale change?

Introduction

• Barbara Deutsch, FASLA, CEO, Landscape Architecture Foundation
• Kate Orff, FASLA, Founding Principal, SCAPE and Professor & Director, Urban Design Program, Columbia University

Presenters

• Kofi Boone, FASLA, University Faculty Scholar and Professor, North Carolina State University
• Kristina Hill, PhD, Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley
• Michael Johnson, Principal and Co-Director of Urban Design, SmithGroup
• Roberto Rovira, Professor & Chair, Landscape Architecture + Environmental and Urban Design, Florida International University