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Assistant Professor Art/Art History
TEACHING AREA(S)
EDUCATION
- MLA II (Master of Landscape Architecture) Harvard University
- BLA (Bachelor of Landscape Architecture) Ball State University
CONTACT
Dane Carlson is a landscape designer and researcher. His practice (REALMS) is formed by a series of ongoing collaborations with colleagues and communities in trans-Himalayan Nepal. This work uses design as advocacy for adaptive, just landscapes which center place-specific knowledge as radical change unfolds. He has been visiting design critic in Landscape Architecture at Harvard University and environmental design strategist at UNOPS Nepal (United Nations Office for Project Services). Dane is also a lecturer in the Master of Landscape Architecture program at Washington University in St. Louis.
SCHOLARLY INTERESTS
- Climate justice
- Himalayan landscapes
- Landscape histories
CONTRIBUTIONS TO FIELD
My practice examines chronic disaster-making and climate crisis in the landscapes of Nepal's mountains and plains. Ongoing work with Nepali colleagues focus on the ongoing retreat of a small Himalayan village. This includes supporting the collective, community-driven design of retreat as an alternative to the imposed violence of managed relocation programs.
MEMBERSHIP AND AFFILIATION
- Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies Landscape Research Group
AWARD
- Landscape Research Group grant recipient (2024)
- Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts grant recipient (2022)
- Fulbright Scholar, Nepal (2017-2018)
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
- “Terai trajectories: Layering design action in the plains of Nepal” in Journal of Landscape Architecture, issue 3, 2023.
- “Tied Across Time: The Future of Making Landscape in the High Himalaya” presentation at Dumbarton Oaks Landscapes in the Making symposium, May 2022.
- “A Landscape that has Never Existed: Temporalities of Control and Disaster-Making in the Terai” (with Tshewang Tamang) in Thresholds Journal, issue 50, 2022.
- “Trajectories of Practice Across Time: Moving Beyond the Histories of Landscape Architecture” (with Mariel Collard) in Landscape Research Journal, 2021.
- “Agencies of the Present: Landscape-Making and the Herders of Lower Mustang, Nepal” in Landscape Research Journal, 2021.
- “Emerging Hybridity and the New Vernacular” in Landscape Architecture Frontiers, volume 6, issue 3.
- “At the Meeting of Earth and Sky: A Sacred and Profane Landscape in Upper Mustang, Nepal” in Journal of Landscape Architecture, vol. 12 2017, issue 02.