Posted on April 4, 2025
Post categories: Climate Faculty Landscape Architecture
The College of Built Environments (CBE) announces the opening of Green Futures Lab: Past, Present, & Prospect at the Gould Gallery. This exhibit highlights the Green Futures Lab (GFL) work in advancing sustainable urban spaces through research, planning, design, and community collaboration. The exhibit will highlight the GFL’s work towards healthy, ecological cities and regions, showcasing past accomplishments, current projects, and possibilities for its vital future.
From initiating and stewarding Gould Hall’s living green wall to designing and conducting research on floating wetland prototypes in its Living Shorelines Puget Sound Initiative the Green Futures Lab has addressed urban challenges such as stormwater pollution, green infrastructure for city streets and campuses, and healthy aquatic habitat. To instigate public space revitalization the Lab has produced a series of carefully researched and richly illustrated urban design guides available to planners and designers. And, its purview has expanded beyond our cities, in the collaborative development of an award-winning Regional Open Space Strategy for Central Puget Sound.
”In addition to our essential research mission, The Green Futures Lab is about empowering students to not only think critically about how our cities can evolve to be more sustainable and inclusive, but to put their ideas into practice. Our work is shaped by the belief that the best solutions come from collaboration—between students, communities, and the environment. Together, we can create urban spaces that are ecologically resilient and socially vibrant,” says Nancy Rottle, founder of the Green Futures Lab and Landscape Architecture Professor Emeritus.
Julie Parrett, Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture, shares, “The Green Futures Lab has been instrumental in pushing the boundaries of sustainability in landscape architecture. GFL’s work demonstrates the power of integrating ecological and urban design strategies, inspiring both students and professionals to engage in innovative solutions for the challenges facing our cities.”
The exhibit will be open until May 2, 2025, and is free and open to the public. Exhibit hours are Monday to Friday, from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.