Learn how storytelling can help you design and create meaningful landscapes with Registered Landscape Architect Bob Scarfo!
Storytelling is a people-centric approach to landscape design based on how most of us learned to read, write, and tell stories. You'll glean three main messages about this approach:
This approach was developed over a 35-year period in an effort to greatly reduce the angst and anxiety that often accompanies learning how to develop landscape designs. The use of storytelling is a valid approach to design a meaningful landscape. By expressing the design guidelines through landscape components, the characteristics of the story are mirrored in the landscape. What story does your garden tell?
About the Presenter
Bob Scarfo is a registered landscape architect in Washington and Massachusetts. His company, Land and Life, is a diversified land planning consulting company that works with local interest groups in highly participatory problem-solving environments.
For the past 25 years, Bob has focused on design for aging in place and ways an environment can contribute to the dignity and well-being of people living with autism and various forms of memory loss.
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