Dane Carlson

Dane Carlson is a landscape designer and researcher. His practice (REALMS) is formed by a series of ongoing collaborations between human and other-than-human peoples in the hinterlands of Nepal. These collaborations use design as advocacy for adaptive, just landscape systems and building broader networks of landscape relations. He has been visiting design critic in Landscape Architecture at Harvard University and is currently an environmental design strategist at UNOPS (United Nations Office for Project Services).

Dane's interests revolve primarily around building a model for world-embedded, plural, and just landscape practice. In the context of this practice, the purpose of research and theory is to shape action on the ground.

Awards

• Fulbright Scholar, Nepal 2017-2018

Publications and Presentations

• "The Hinterlands: Designing at the Intersections of Continuity and Change" in LA+ Journal, issue 09 DESIGN.
• "Hybrid Landscapes of Nepal's Himalayan Frontier" in SPACES magazine, July 2018 issue.
• "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.

Education

• Master of Landscape Architecture II with Distinction Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2012 — 2014)
• Bachelor of Landscape Architecture Ball State University (2005 — 2011)

Companies

• Assistant Professor Principia College (2020)
• Environmental Design Specialist UNOPS (2019)
• Designer and researcher REALMS (2016)
• Design Critic in Landscape Architecture Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2019 — 2019)
• Fulbright Scholar Fulbright Commission Nepal (2017 — 2018)
• Innovation Lab Partner Nepal Innovation Lab (2016 — 2016)
• Research Assistant Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2015 — 2015)
• Master of Landscape Architecture II Candidate Harvard GSD (2012 — 2014)
• Woodshop Teaching Assistant Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2012 — 2014)

Skills

• Mac OS X
• Rhinoceros
• Basic Carpentry

Other

Landscape Design, Microsoft Office, Sketching, AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite, SketchUp, Landscape Architecture