Landscape Futures Lab

Landscape Futures Lab is a design-research incubator for climate innovation and imagination. The lab brings together faculty from critical disciplines across USC, including from the Department of Computational Biology (biological science), the Spatial Sciences Institute (soil science), The Natural History Museum (urban ecology), Thornton School of Music (sound studies), the School of Cinematic Arts (interactive media), and industry partners – from Technology to Futurology – to develop multimodal and multi-scalar research that explores the implications and applications of technology within the biophysical world and establishes experimental methodologies with which to generate alternatives to our current environmental trajectories and the existential threats we now face.


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Building Soils in the Anthropocene. Image courtesy of Jared McKnight, 2020.

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Read the recent article by USC Architecture on the Landscape Futures Lab!