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


Harvard Graduate School of Design
MLA Core I Studio 
Coordinator

Displace + Immerse

Coordinator 2017 - 2019

Category:  Teaching
The Core-I curriculum introduces foundational approaches to designing public urban landscapes.  In the first assignment, “Time + Materials,” students randomly draw a material and a time of day as their prompt for the design of a courtyard in Boston. The second assignment is the redesign of an urban plaza as a means of understanding the urban ground, a contested space of vegetation and human circulation. The final project of the semester is the design of a waterfront park. Through guided fieldwork, students gain an understanding of the territory of their project through the history of urbanized hydrology. 
Site Credit: August Sklar