Constructing Ecologies
Julia is an urban designer as well as a registered urban planner in Ontario and the United Kingdom. Her doctoral research at Harvard responds to an increased awareness and shift towards valuing natural capital in research and policy, as well as the growing influence of non-state actors such as environmental organizations, landowners, and the private sector in shaping landscapes in response to climate change. Using interview, site visits, photography, and video as methods of investigation, her work focus on woodland areas in the province of Ontario, Canada, documenting incentivized managed forests to reveal the extent to which these landscapes are tied to the social, economic and political histories of production and conservation within the region

Julia Smachylo May 16, 2018