E*vue: Emergent Vegetation of the Urban Ecosystem

This online resource helped document the emergent vegetation of the urban Northeast and illustrate the environmental role which these species could play in creating sustainable urban landscapes.

Teaching Challenge:

The critical question faced by the professionals who design, build, and maintain our urban landscapes is not what plants grew there in the past, but which ones will grow there in the future. The spontaneous vegetation of the urban environment, which flourishes without cultivation, is often marginalized as exotic or invasive. Yet many such species have also come to perform vital ecological functions like water filtration, soil stabilization, and carbon storage.

Faculty/Instructor(s): Peter Del Tredici
Fellow(s): Kenneth Francis, Leah Broder, Ilana Cohen, Eamonn Hutton, Adalie Pierce-McManamon, Sharon Komarow
Link: E*vue
School, Library, Museum: Design
Project Deliverable: A website (non-iSites) with two purposes: to help people identify the plants that are growing all around them, and to introduce the concept that many of these plants, despite being categorized as weeds, are actually performing important ecological functions in the urban ecosystem, such as water filtration, soil stabilization and pollution remediation.
Tools and/or Technologies: Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Javascript
Course(s)/Discipline(s): GSD-6214m: Plants in Design, GSD-6218M1: Plants and Technology I, GSD-6446: Sustainable Plants for a Changing World, GSD-6219: Plants and Technology II
Year Created: 2006

Faculty/Instructor(s):

Peter Del Tredici

Fellow(s):

Kenneth Francis, Leah Broder, Ilana
Cohen, Eamonn Hutton, Adalie
Pierce-McManamon, Sharon Komarow

Link:

E*vue

School, Library, Museum:

Design

Project Deliverable:

A website (non-iSites) with two purposes: to help people identify the plants that are growing all around them, and to introduce the concept that many of these plants, despite being categorized as weeds, are actually performing important ecological functions in the urban ecosystem, such as water filtration, soil stabilization and pollution remediation.

Tools and/or Technologies:

Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Javascript

Course(s)/Discipline(s):

GSD-6214m: Plants in Design, GSD-6218M1: Plants and Technology I, GSD-6446: Sustainable Plants for a Changing World, GSD-6219: Plants and Technology II

Year Created:

2006