Publications and Awards
Awards
2023: ASLA-Oregon Honor Award, Professional Pro-Bono, ‘Oregon Experience Laboratory’ – Fuller Initiative Land Lab
ASLA-Oregon Green Ribbon Award, Professional Climate Action, ‘Oregon Experience Laboratory’ – Fuller Initiative Land Lab
ASLA-Oregon Honor Award, Student Design, ‘Willamette River Overlook’ – Dorae Hankin
2022: ASLA-National Honor Awards, Student Communication – ‘Recovery’ Field School
2021: ASLA-National Honor Awards, Student Research, ‘Algae as Agents’ – Aaron Woolverton
ASLA-National Honor Awards, Student Research, ‘Foreground for Mosses’ – Heather Tietz
2019: ASLA-National Honor Award, Student Research, ‘Co-creating with Animals’ – Tori Talbot,
ASLA-Oregon Honor Award, Student Design, ‘The Cyano-Sechhi’ – Carolyn Corl
2018: ASLA-Oregon Honor award, Student Design, ‘Willow Barrow’ – Nicholas Sund
2017: ASLA-Oregon Honor award, Student Design, ‘Coal Shadow’ – Tori Murphy
ASLA-Oregon Honor award, Student Design, ‘In Transition’ – Jill Stone and Rachel Spencer
2015: CELA Excellence in Teaching National Award – Roxi Thoren
2014: ASLA-Oregon Honor award, Student Design – ‘Out of the Woods’ field school
Conference Presentations
2023: Riverfront Ecologies and (In)Equity, Design Futures Forum, University of Oregon, OR – Michael Geffel (Panel)
2022: Reimagining Post-Covid Landscape Design Education, ASLA-Oregon Annual Symposium, Portland, OR – Michael Geffel
Forest Comm; Harvard Forest to the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest, Arboreal Inquiries Symposium, presented by Great Lakes Design Lab, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN – David Buckley Borden
Cultivating a Design Practice of Land Care: Teaching at the Intersection of Land and Labor, CELA Annual Conference, Santa Ana Pueblo, NM – Maggie Hansen, Michael Geffel, Jen Toy, Jenny Jones, and Michelle Franco
Founding a Sustainable Culture Through a Faculty & Facilities Partnership, Washington Oregon Higher Education Sustainability Conference, Seattle, WA – Michael Geffel and Aaron Olsen
2021: Hybrid Vigor: Ecology X Art X Design, OSU ART-SCI, and the Corvallis Art Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR – David Buckley Borden
Forest Community; Harvard Forest to the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest, HJ Andrews LTER and Spring Creek Project, Oregon State University – David Buckley Borden with David Paul Bayles
Terrestrial Practices / Experimental Maintenance, Land Lab Lecture Series, University of Virginia – Michael Geffel
2020: Recovering Maintenance | rapid response and slow evolution, Making-Do in Urbanism and the Arts Conference, UO Slow Lab – Michael Geffel
To Hold in Hand | care as the essence of maintenance, Care Practices Symposium, Portland, OR – Michael Geffel
2019: The unknown unknowns: Lessons from the anthracite trail, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, Sacramento, CA – Roxi Thoren
Transitory Public Works: Maintenance as a design instrument in landscape architecture, CELA, Sacramento, CA – Michael Geffel
2018: Braided Field, Architecture, Media, Politics and Society, Tucson, AZ – Liska Chan
Martha Brookes Hutcheson and the modern roots of ecological agriculture, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, Blacksburg, VA – Roxi Thoren
Designing productive landscapes: Agriculture and ecology, New Directions in the American, Landscape conference, New London, CT – Roxi Thoren
2016: Records of a dream: Agricultural infrastructure and the gardens of Middleton Place, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, Logan, UT – Roxi Thoren
2014: Second nature: Trees, forests, and landscape architecture, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, Baltimore, MD – Roxi Thoren
Meditation on matter: Making art in the landscape architectural curriculum, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, Baltimore, MD – Roxi Thoren
2013: Breakfast with Olmsted: Education around the dining table, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, Austin, TX – Roxi Thoren
Exhibitions
2023: Cryptic Sounds Exhibition, Fuller Initiative Land Lab, Eugene, OR
2022: Ghost Forests, Trustman Gallery, Simmons University, Boston MA
Oregon Experience Laboratory Exhibition, World Athletics Championships, Eugene, OR
Landscape Makers Exhibition, Laverne Krauss Gallery, Eugene, OR
2021: Recovery Following Wildfire, Mt. Pisgah Arboretum, Eugene, OR
2019: The Uncanny and the Strange, Hayden Gallery, Eugene OR
2018: Tools of Maintenance, Gallery Land Collective, Philadelphia PA
2017: Wastelands and Beauty, Hayden Gallery, Eugene OR
Publications
Michael Geffel, et al. “Viridic Disturbance: Reprogramming the Tools of Landscape Maintenance.” LA+ Green 15, 2022.
Michael Geffel. “Landscape Design through Maintenance: Field Case Studies in Parametric Mowing.” Landscape Journal 39(2), 2021.
Michael Geffel. “Terrestrial Practices: Pulling Landscape Back to Earth.” Kerb 28, 2020.
Roxi Thoren and Pheobe Lickwar. “Farmscape: The Design of Productive Landscapes.” 2020.
Roxi Thoren. “Overlook: Art and materiality in the landscape architectural curriculum.” Teaching Landscape 2: The Studio Experience, Karsten Jørgensen, Nilgül Karadeniz, Elke Mertens, Richard Stiles, eds. London: Taylor and Francis, 2019.
Michael Geffel. “Lawnmower Man.” Zach Motice, author. Landscape Architecture Magazine, 2019.
Roxi Thoren. “Dreaming True: Martha Brookes Hutcheson and Feminist Ecology.” Places, 2018.
Roxi Thoren. “Co-creating with Animals: Crossing the ‘Narrow Abyss of Non-Comprehension’.” Landscape Review, August 2018.
Michael Geffel et al. Oregon Timber Trail: Willamette Tier Field Guide. December 2017.
Victoria Solan. “Living Lessons” Landscape Architecture Magazine. March 2017.
Liska Chan. “Braided Fields.” Journal of Landscape Architecture. October 2016.
Roxi Thoren. “Deep Roots: Foundations of Forestry in American Landscape Architecture.” Scenario 5: Building The Urban Forest. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2014.