Join us in New York on Saturday February 7th, 1 pm to 7pm, for The Five Thousand Pound Life: Water.Organized and presented by the Architectural League of NY and Cooper Union, the symposium focusses on water supply in the context of climate change. What’s the relationship between water... View full entry »
Vote for Divining LA.Divining LA is competing with lots of great proposals as part of the LA2050 challenge. We'd love your vote for a water-smart future. We can offset 80% of LA's water needs with conservation, recycling, and storm water. Stormwater alone could meet... View full entry »
The USC Center for Sustainable Cities Spring Forum has an event lined up tomorrow Tuesday May 6 from 2:00pm - 4:30pm on the USC Park Campus in the Ralph and Goldy Lewis Hall 101.Parking for the event is provided in PSX, Gate 3. The RSVP ID # is 50893, the event is listed as USC CSC Spring... View full entry »
Tonight at 7pm on KCRW Madeleine Brand and Saul Gonzalez report on the centennary of water imports to Los Angeles on KCRW's Which Way LA? Power + Water: The LA Aqueduct at 100 is a one-hour radio show exploring the story of the aqueduct's construction; its impacts on the Owens Valley and... View full entry »
In the most recent issue of BOOM: A Journal of California, a new, cross-disciplinary publication that explores the history, culture, arts, politics, and society of California, Arid Lands Institute co-founders Hadley and Peter Arnold have a piece published titled Pivot... View full entry »
This issue of ARID is inspired and supported by the Metabolic Studio, led by Los Angeles artist and philanthropist Lauren Bon. In November 2012, the Metabolic Studio launched a process designed to nurture public debate about our relationship to water, land, energy, and neighbors. In... View full entry »
2013 update: New website; Hi-Res Stormwater model; Celebrando; ARID journal; Watershed Based Planning; • ALI’s new website, a collaboration with UrbanInsight and SwettShop, will launch in Fall 2013. The new website will host a rich library of drylands studies... View full entry »
ARID seeks written submissions from independent scholars, writers, researchers, and journalists that showcase innovative, compelling, and intellectually rigorous storytelling. We also encourage visual, film, and audio submissions including photo essays, illustrations, cinema, soundscapes, music... View full entry »
The Arid Lands Institute is involved with two Foodprint Project events coming up in December Below is the information from the Foodprint Project site: Foodprint LA is the fourth in a series of international conversations about food and the city. With LA’s pioneering Food Policy... View full entry »
The Arid Lands Institute is involved with two Foodprint Project events coming up in December Below is the information from the Foodprint Project site: For Foodprint LA, we are adding two new events in addition to our regular program: an afternoon foodscape-mapping walk that will... View full entry »
Launch issue now available online. Nice contributions from all over the west. On the home front, Jennifer Bonner writes about advising 3 student thesis projects: Stepan Andreasian, Jesus de Anda, and Cesia Lopez. ARID: A Journal of Desert Art, Design and Ecology is a peer-reviewed... View full entry »
5th Annual Celebrando Las Acequias Celebrando 2012: Ingenious Landscapes Indigenous Infrastructures and Sustainable Design for Drylands Please join us for the 5th Annual Celebrando las Acequias_2012, June 14-16, 2012, in Dixon, New Mexico. The Arid Lands Institute... View full entry »
Join us on May 16 from 11am-Noon the Arid Lands Institute will participate in the weekly Twitter chat session of #LANDSCAPECHAT The conversation will happen across @aridlandsinst @valleycrest and @coronatools with hashtag #landscapechat. We will be discussing the Drylands Conference and what we... View full entry »
Curator talk and tour of Drylands Design Saturday, May 5th at 11am FREE with A+D Museum admission, RSVP requested Curators: Hadley and Peter Arnold, Founding Co-Directors of Aridlands Institute at Woodbury University Hadley and Peter Arnold are founding... View full entry »
Confluence Park, Los Angeles River 11:00am - 1:00pm visit http://aplusd.org/urban-hikes to purchase your ticket Join A+D Museum for a special Urban Hike exploring the Los Angeles River. This tour, in conjunction with A+D's current exhibition Drylands Design, seeks to allow hikers the opportunity... View full entry »
Katya Tylevich wrote a review featured on Domus of the Drylands Design exhibition currently up at the A+D museum in Los Angeles. Take time to read it at http://www.domusweb.it/en/architecture/drylands-design-/ View full entry »
Featured on Design Observer the work of Hadley Arnold + Peter Arnold Read the essay and see the entire slide show at: Design Observer A few of the images from the post: Also featured... View full entry »
The Drylands Design exhibition is getting installed at the Architecture + Design Museum this weekend and early next week. Its going to be a very nice show, designed and produced by a great Woodbury team and showcasing a lot of wonderful work. Student or alumni volunteer assistance this weekend... View full entry »
“Water scarcity is the history and the future of the American West. Re-thinking water use, particularly in the face of climate change, will be central to our region’s survival. Designers are poised to meet this challenge, particularly since the answers to this future crisis exceed the... View full entry »
