Measuring Landscape Performance: LAF's 2025 CSI Program - Part 2

The Landscape Architecture Foundation's Case Study Investigation (CSI) program supports faculty-student research teams who work with designers to assess and document the performance of exemplary landscape projects as Case Study Briefs. In this second of two webinars, three teams from the 2025 CSI program present the projects they evaluated.

For each built landscape, a representative from the design firm will share background information about the project and design, followed by the CSI academic team presenting their research process and most compelling findings from their efforts to quantify the environmental, social, and economic benefits.

Presenter and Projects

Española Healing Foods Oasis, Española, NM
CSI Research Fellow: Anthony Fettes, PLA, PDC, University of New Mexico
Student Research Assistant: Kailani Gorman
Firm representative: Christie Green, radicle

Earvin "Magic" Johnson Park, Los Angeles, CA
CSI Research Fellow: Esther Margulies, PLA, University of Southern California
Student Research Assistants: Ashley Stephens and Jordan Fucci 
Firm representatives: Evan Mather and Jose Gutierrez, MIG

Rainier Beach Urban Farm and Wetlands, Seattle, WA
CSI Research Fellow: Vincent Javet, University of Washington
Student Research Assistant: Piper Sallquist
Firm representative: Jason Henry, Berger Partnership