DANIELLE N. CHOI

Danielle N. Choi is a landscape architect, writer, and educator. Her research explores landscape design as a cultural practice that brings technology, infrastructure, and ecology into dialogue with public life. She currently teaches at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Prior to her academic appointment, Choi practiced in landscape studios in New York City and Berlin.

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PUBLICATIONS
Design Beyond Nature
Our Green is Dark, Almost Black
Forest Urbanisms - Review
Is Landscape Labor?
Where Were We?
Risk and Fun
Outsiders
Juvenile Delinquents
The “Not-Me Creation”


RESEARCHOrigin Stories
Continental Divides
TEACHINGStudios
Archived Landscapes
Island Observatory
PROJECTSMonument Circle
ABC No Rio
Photo Hunt Garden
Past Practice
EVENTS, EXHIBITIONSClimates of Control
Energy Corridors
Natural Attachments
Forest Futures
Plants as Technological Objects
Whirring, Worrying, Blending, Blurring
Archived Landscapes



Infrastructural Breaches of Continental Divides

2017 - ongoing

Category: Research
By the late 19th century, European colonization was extensive in its exploitation of the North American continent. The westward expansion of agriculture, ranching, and mining aligned territorial boundaries with significant geological features such as the Rocky Mountains, Great Lakes, and the Mississippi River. Water infrastructure of the early 20th century ruptured these geologic divides. This project investigates the meaning of landscape “regions” amidst these contradictions.

Point cloud drawing by Kira Clingen and Cecilia Huber.
Site Credit: August Sklar