Month: March 2016

Artist Leads Planning for Fifth-Grade WeDesign Charrette

March 2016 – Dwight Mickelson, lead artist for the Listening Garden at World Garden Commons, the pilot site of The Fargo Project, led a meeting of educators, engineers, landscape architects, artists and conservationists. Dwight started the meeting with a listening experience using an audio clip recorded of the wildlife within a wetland near his home…
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March 29, 2016 0

Notes from the Engineer: 2016 Spring Site Survey

Earlier this month, Nick the surveyor walked the channel at World Garden Commons and identified really hard areas (clay sub soil) and very soft areas (remaining topsoil/silt) with Justin, a stormwater engineer at AE2S and Brian a landscape architect from Land Elements​. They walked the centerline of the channel and found varying conditions along the…
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March 21, 2016 0