This interdisciplinary landscape architecture and ecological urbanism studio explores the evolving conditions, possibilities, and tensions of Seattle’s industrial waterfront through the lens of the Ballard neighborhood. Set within a context of climate urgency, infrastructural transformation, and environmental justice, EDGEWORKS challenged students to critically and creatively [re]vision the post-industrial edge as a living laboratory for spatial justice, ecological repair, and community imagination.
EDGEWORKS offered students the opportunity to practice cross scalar and cross-sector thinking; to explore regenerative infrastructure and cultural programming; and to work collaboratively in teams that reflect the interdisciplinary nature of contemporary urban design practice. This advanced design studio reimagines the Ballard waterfront as a site of urgent questions and unfinished futures. Students confronted the frictions between industry, ecology, and public life, and proposed new spatial frameworks that reconcile working landscapes with collective use, care, and imagination.