Research Expertise and Interest

patents, landscape architecture, ecology, technology, innovation, fabrication, horticulture

Research Description

Richard L. Hindle is Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at UC Berkeley. He teaches courses in ecological technology, planting design, and a range of topical studios that explore the diverse landscapes of California. Professor Hindle's research focuses on technology in the urban and regional landscape with an emphasis on innovation in large-scale environmental an urban systems. His current research reframes landscape architecture as a technological field through detailed analysis of prior-art and contemporary policy, linking the profession to broader sociotechnical processes. His writing, and teaching, explores the potential of new technological narratives and the material imagination to reframe theory, practice, and the invention of systems that grow, and adapt, such as those that integrate plants, natural processes, and non-human species into constructed environments.