CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) – Researchers from the Natural Infrastructure Lab at the University of Virginia are re-imagining how communities can use natural infrastructure to help fight changes caused by nature.
Their work focuses on adapting ecological systems to protect different areas. Researchers say it is important because people should see themselves in the infrastructure, which shapes their day-to-day lives.
“Part of the joy of being a landscape architect and why we believe this work is important is that these pressures are universal.” assistant professor of landscape architecture Michael Luegering said. “How we collectively choose to adapt these systems through and with nature and ecology is a vital part of the way in which we can see ourselves culturally in the infrastructure that we build.”
Luegering added that bringing this information out of labs and into public spaces helps build trust in natural infrastructure.
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