It Could Be You:
The Inevitability of Death and the Likeliness of the Potter’s Field
Core II Studio (Spring 2023)
Landscapes of Remembrance (Potter’s Field)
Location
Franklin Park, Boston, MA
Professor
Sara Zewde
Assistant Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture,
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Founding Principal, Studio Zewde︎︎︎
Landscapes of Remembrance (Potter’s Field)
Location
Franklin Park, Boston, MA
Professor
Sara Zewde
Assistant Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture,
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Founding Principal, Studio Zewde︎︎︎
Project Overview
The Core II Studio is the second studio in the Masters of Landscape Architecture curriculum sequence at the Graduate School of Design. Originally a cemetery design project, the studio course was updated to address the concept, program, and design of a Potter’s Field as a cemetery landscape. It Could Be You: The Inevitability of Death and the Likeliness of the Potter’s Field is rooted in research regarding who actually ends up in Potter’s Fields, what it means to commission the design of one, and how “memento mori” (latin for remember you will die) can be translated into a landscape at Franklin Park, Boston, MA.
RESEARCH
DESIGN
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