Discover how integrating artistic principles into green stormwater infrastructure creates beautiful and community-enriching landscapes that celebrate nature and manage water responsibly.
This course identifies and discusses the ways in which design professionals can utilize green stormwater infrastructure beyond its traditional function. This course will discuss how design professionals can incorporate art into green stormwater infrastructure to provide aesthetic and educational value, connect people with their surroundings, communicate stories and ideas, and embrace and celebrate rainwater.
Delve into the core principles of high-performance site design, understanding water as a valuable resource, not a waste product. Explore historical and contemporary hydrological patterns and the critical role of soil health and native plant communities in effective stormwater management. Learn to integrate biophilic design principles and regenerative design for resilient, ecologically rich environments.
Key learning outcomes include:
Prepare to envision and implement GSI projects that are not only effective in managing stormwater but also serve as inspiring, educational, and aesthetically pleasing public spaces.
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Senior Manager of Environmental Consulting & Technology, Inc
Mr. Judd’s body of work integrates natural cycles, balanced systems, and co‐benefits into built environments across all scales from the urban pocket park to the large regional park, corporate campus, commercial sites, Native American lands, trails, and whole‐systems farm planning. Patrick is well versed with Midwest native plant communities, green stormwater infrastructure, and land sculpting, which allows ecosystem services integration for projects. Patrick brings a pragmatic eye to the design and planning process. His combination of knowledge about native habitats, site programming, and social interfaces leads to translating that knowledge into high‐performing site design criteria for the preparation of sustainable site master plans through to construction documents and implementation — critical for a project that must respond to the needs of both the environment and people. Currently, Patrick serves in a whole host of leadership roles in the region that include being on the Great Lakes Commission’s Green Infrastructure Champions Advisory Team and the Great Lakes Stormwater Collaborative Leadership Team, as a past Board Member of the Southeast Michigan Sustainable Business Forum for thirteen years, USGBC-Detroit’s Sustainable Detroit Forum conference committee from 2016 – 2021, as a Board Member Emeritus of the Wildflower Association of Michigan, Advisory Committee for Lansing Community College’s Landscape Architecture Program, and as a guest lecturer on a range of topics including: green stormwater infrastructure, high‐performance sustainable sites and regenerative landscape design, sustainable farming, natural systems restoration, and management/stewardship.
