The International Geodesign Collaboration

Thomas Fisher, is Director of the Minnesota Design Center, and Dayton Hudson Chair in Urban Design, He is a graduate of Cornell University in architecture and Case Western Reserve University in intellectual history, was previously the Editorial Director of Progressive Architecture magazine. Recognized in 2005 as the fifth most published writer about architecture in the United States, he has written 9 books, over 50 book chapters or introductions, and over 400 articles in professional journals and major publications. Named a top-25 design educator four times by Design Intelligence, he has lectured at 36 universities and over 150 professional and public meetings. He has written extensively about architectural design, practice, and ethics. His newest book is Designing our Way to a Better World (University of Minnesota Press, 2016).  Brian Orland is the Rado Family Foundation/University of Georgia Foundation Professor of Geodesign at the University of Georgia, College of Environment + Design. He holds degrees in Architecture and Landscape Architecture. His teaching and research focus on environmental perception, the understanding and representation of environmental impacts, and the design of information systems for community-based design and planning. His work includes the use of serious games, visualization and mobile devices for data collection, information dissemination, and citizen engagement in landscape design and planning. Current interests include Georgia coastal residents' intentions to migrate in the face of climate-related change the roles of cultural information in regional planning, and a university global collaboration project, Changing our Global Infrastructure, with Esri and Geodesignhub.  Carl Steinitz is the Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning, Emeritus, at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. In 1967, Professor Steinitz received his PhD degree in City and Regional Planning, with a major in urban design, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).  He also holds the Master of Architecture degree from MIT, and a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University. His applied research and teaching focus on highly valued landscapes that are undergoing substantial pressures for change. He is principal author of Alternative Futures for Changing Landscapes (Island Press 2003), author of A Framework for Geodesign (Esri Press, 2012), and a founding coordinator of the International Geodesign Collaboration. Professor Steinitz received many honors, including the Outstanding Practitioner Award from the International Society of Landscape Ecology (1996), and the Carpenter Teaching Medal from the American Society of Landscape Architects (2015).

Foreword by Jack Dangermond


Part I: The International Geodesign Collaboration


Improving our global infrastructure


Geodesign systems


Design assumptions


Geodesign innovations


Part II: Geodesign projects


How to read the projects in this book


Leibniz University Hannover, Germany


University of Georgia, United States


Beijing Forestry University, China


University College London, United Kingdom


Leibniz University Hannover, Germany


University of Ljubljana, Slovenia


Peking  University,  China


Università di Cagliari, Italy


The University of Manchester, United Kingdom


The Pennsylvania State University, United States


Hochschule  Weihenstephan-Triesdorf,  Germany


Politecnico di Milano, Italy


Tohoku  University,  Japan


Harvard University, United States


Harran  University,  Turkey


Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, United States


Ankara  University,  Turkey


University of Buenos Aires, Argentina


University of New South Wales, Australia


University of Thessaly, Greece


Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria


Chulalongkorn  University,  Thailand


Ritsumeikan  University,  Japan


California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, United States


National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan


Iowa State University, United States


University of Seoul, South Korea


Oregon University System, United States


California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, United States


University of Virginia, United States


National University of Singapore, Singapore


Leibniz University Hannover, Germany (Lahn River region)


University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States


Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil


Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil


School of Environment and Architecture, Mumbai, India


Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico


Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden


University of Southern California, United States


University of North Carolina at Charlotte, United States


University of Basilicata, Italy


Texas A&M University, United States


Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela 


University College Dublin, Ireland


Georgia Institute of Technology, United States


Hiroshima  University,  Japan


San Diego State University, United States


University of California, Berkeley, United States


The University of Tokyo, Japan


Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia 


National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan


Part III: Reflections


IGC 2019: What we learned


How geodesign processes shaped outcomes


The natural language of geodesign


Individual relections


Afterword and the direction forward