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Biodiversity

FRI-A01: Designing Food as Landscape Infrastructure

Friday, September 18, 2026
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PT
1.25 PDH, LA CES/HSW

This session reframes food systems as essential landscape infrastructure. Through global examples and practice-based perspectives, panelists examine how agriculture and stewardship support biodiversity, soil health, and territorial planning. The discussion positions productive landscapes as design drivers, offering frameworks to integrate food systems into master planning and public realm strategies.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Analyze food systems as landscape infrastructure that supports biodiversity, soil health, and climate resilience through regenerative design approaches.
  • Assess agricultural systems and climate-smart strategies to understand how food production can be scaled, adapted, and integrated into urban and regional landscapes.
  • Examine Indigenous and community-led land stewardship practices as frameworks for rewilding, land justice, and equitable agricultural futures.
  • Apply practical methods for integrating productive food landscapes into master planning, public realm design, and landscape architectural workflows.