Design with Dredge: Resilient Landscape Infrastructure in the Chesapeake Bay | 2018 ASLA Professional Awards

Each year, the American Society of Landscape Architects Professional Awards honor the best in landscape architecture from around the globe. We are happy to announce Design with Dredge won the Honor Award for research! Congrats to all of our partners and folks on the team.

Project Statement:

Every year in the Baltimore Harbor natural and anthropogenic siltation processes infill waterways and navigation channels, necessitating the removal of 1.5 million cubic yards of sediment to keep the port operating. The Design with Dredge research program brings together practitioners, community members, academics, regulatory and policy officials, and industry representatives to advance shared conceptual frameworks, planning priorities, and applied landscape strategies for resilient dredged material management in the Baltimore region. Through cross-disciplinary collaboration, compound research methods, and direct stakeholder engagement the program provides a lens through which to explore emerging and future landscape infrastructure issues facing port cities and coastal communities. It also serves as a medium for material investigation and a cooperative paradigm for engaged civic action. In recasting the clays, silts, sands, and gravels of the Baltimore Harbor as a substrate of resiliency, Design with Dredge is catalyzing the institutional and operational energy and knowledge of diverse stakeholders to reimagine what it means to live in a dynamic urban estuary where legacies of labor, innovation, and ecological justice overlap.

See full award submission: Design with Dredge: Resilient Landscape Infrastructure in the Chesapeake Bay | 2018 ASLA Professional Awards