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



Island Observatory - Seminar
Harvard Graduate School of Design

Category:  Teaching



 As any contemporary design student knows, experimenting with new technology adds complication before depth and complexity before (if ever) it can serve as a labor-saving tool. Furthermore, the relatively rare opportunity to work in the field—whether a cranberry bog or a park—can (and perhaps should) raise as many questions as it answers. For designers, these frictional transactions between digital and analog media of image capture, creation, and manipulation— particularly as they map onto the studio and the site—continue to hold creative potential for speculating on the future of built and natural environments.

Digital model of beech forest by Eric Schwartz.
Site Credit: August Sklar