Emily Vogler

Associate Professor
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BA, University New Mexico Albuquerque
MLA, University of Pennsylvania

Emily Vogler is a landscape architect whose research, design and teaching investigate social-ecological systems surrounding water infrastructure, sense of place and climate uncertainty. She has ongoing research projects looking at the irrigation ditches in New Mexico, aging dam infrastructure in New England and coastal adaptation strategies in Narragansett Bay.

In her research and design practice, Vogler investigates methods to address regional environmental and cultural issues at the site and material scale; novel approaches to engaging the public in the design and decision-making process; and strategies for strengthening the collaboration and communication between designers, artists and scientists.

Vogler served as Landscape Architecture department head at RISD from 2017–19. Prior to teaching at RISD, she was a senior project manager at Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates and the 2010 National Olmsted Scholar.

Courses

Fall 2024 Courses

LDAR - 3214-01 ART & ACTIVISM IN THE TERRAIN OF WATER
Level Graduate
Unit Landscape Architecture
Subject Landscape Architecture
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
Format Seminar
Mode In-Person
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ART & ACTIVISM IN THE TERRAIN OF WATER

Level Graduate
Unit Landscape Architecture
Subject Landscape Architecture
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
Format Seminar
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: W | 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Instructor(s): Emily Vogler Location(s): Center for Integrative Technologies, Room 305 Enrolled / Capacity: 15 Status: Open

SECTION DESCRIPTION

In this seminar, students will be asked to explore how their practices- as artists and designers- can engage issues of land and water justice. Research will happen through local field trips, community willow weaving workshops, readings, conversations with artists and activists, and speculative and creative practices. Some of the questions we will ask in the seminar include: How do our actions and our lives change when we understand land and water as a system of relationships and obligations? How can we, as artists and designers, develop a creative practice that pushes back against the privatization and financialization of land, water and relationships? How can our practices respond to and challenge a singular narrative of progress and development and create hybrid practices that weave tradition with speculative futures? How can critical spatial practice be used to uncover the multiple and complex histories of place, unsettle the comforts of modernity, and contribute to struggles for decolonization and justice? The hope is that this will be a truly multidisciplinary seminar and have students from across all the divisions. Each student will develop a final project that resonates with the seminar’s core themes and is also relevant to their own interests, goals, media and creative practice.

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BA, University New Mexico Albuquerque
MLA, University of Pennsylvania