Common Ground, a Live Recording of the Land Language Podcast

Most building projects design the structure first and hand the landscape whatever is left: leftover budget, leftover square footage, leftover soil. This live recording of Land Language, the podcast hosted by Blueprint Earth founder Brit Sastrawidjaya and co-presented with the ASLA Oregon Climate and Biodiversity Action Committee, flips that order. Four practitioners (a regenerative landscape designer, a landscape architect, an architect and a developer) trace where sustainability has been in their fields, what they’re grappling with now, and how the disciplines work together from here. The bar is no longer less impact. It’s a site that is alive and healthy.

This is a working session about process: who gets called first and why it matters, the early decisions that shape everything after (a dry well or a rain garden is a choice with consequences), and how a landscape can stack functions the way a high-performance building does. Attendees leave knowing the three decision points where a site’s ecological performance is won or lost before schematic design, and who needs to be in the room for each one. Recorded in front of a live audience with open Q&A and published as a Land Language episode after SBW.