REALMS is a landscape practice
(design, research, teaching, making).
Principia Nepal Study Abroad
Shifting Village I
Shifting Village II
Terai Trajectories
A Landscape that has Never Existed
Tied Across Time
Trajectories of Practice Across Time
Agencies of the Present
Landscape is Knowledge
Fuel and the Himalayan Future
Open-ended Landscape
Willow and Water
Ascent
Passage & Discovery
Agency of a Path
Transient Materials
Fagopyrum tataricum
About
REALMS is a landscape practice working toward collective action with landscape-makers across the plains, hills, and mountains of Nepal. It proposes patterns of action centering land-based knowledge in struggles against climate crisis and chronic disaster-making. Much of this work is situated at points of overlap and friction between centuries-old cyclical migration, shifting weather patterns, traditional practices, new economies, trans-temporal agency, growing resource demands, and fluid terrains.
Dane Carlson is a landscape designer and researcher. He is Assistant Professor at Principia College and Lecturer in Landscape Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. His recent work focuses on the ongoing retreat of a Lubra village in Himalayan Nepal. This work has been developed in collaboration with Yungdrung Tsewang Gurung and Sonam Lama, and supported by funding from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and the Landscape Research Group. Dane has also been an environmental design strategist at UNOPS and resident at the WorldVision Innovation Lab in Kathmandu. He holds a Master of Landscape Architecture II degree (post-professional) with distinction from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
Contact Dane Carlson:
danegcarlson@gmail.com
dane.carlson@principia.edu