Planetary survival in the Anthropocene crucially depends on the stewardship of resilient forest ecosystems worldwide—at the scales of wilderness, planted forests, metropolitan tracts, and the urban forest canopy of cities and towns everywhere. The Fifth National Climate Assessment (US, 2023) repeats now familiar claims that healthy forests provide essential ecological, economic, and social benefits and services.
But our forests today face extreme risk. Disturbance agents are driving massive change—including unprecedented temperature increases, altered precipitation patterns, increasingly catastrophic weather events, uncontrollable mega-fires, and destructive land use practices. This symposium addresses risks and threats, initiatives and improved practices, and speculations on a more secure and more just future for metropolitan and urban forests and the species that inhabit them.
The symposium accompanies a concurrent gallery exhibition in the Druker Design Gallery, Gund Hall, entitled Forest Futures, curated by GSD Professor of Landscape Architecture Anita Berrizbeitia and the graduate students in her seminar, DES-3510 Forests: Histories and Future Narratives.
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Panel 2: Decoding the Urban Forest
Moderated by Pablo Perez-Ramos
Michael Jakob, The Heterotopic Other
Nicholas Pevzner and Max Piana, Beyond the Axe: Reimagining Silviculture and Design
Acheampong Atta-Boateng, Concrete to Canopy: Nature-based Urban Adaptation
00:00 Panel 2 Introduction by Pablo Perez-Ramos
03:56 Presentation by Michael Jakob
21:36 Presentation by Nicholas Pevzner and Max Piana
41:31 Presentation by Acheampong Atta-Boateng
01:02:55 Discussion and Q+A
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