GROUND UP, the student journal for the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, recently published its annual issue of ideas, stories and designs in GROUND UP Issue 05: Delineations. Centered on the theme that delineations in landscape are varied, vast and consequential, the issue explores themes of lines, borders, and edges by seeking to “investigate one of the most fundamental tools at our disposal, hoping to shed light on the ways we alter space from the ground up.”

"Delineations" was recently mentioned in the June issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine in an article that described how landscape architecture students form agendas that articulate their own specific design culture through involvement with student-led journals. While GROUND UP is inclusive of all writers and designers outside of UC Berkeley, the latest issue features a number of CED faculty members, alumni, staff and student entries:

• Professor of Landscape Architecture & Urban Design Chip Sullivan draws parallels between inscribing the Earth and body in “Landscape as Tattoo,” comparing the ever-changing topography of Earth with tattoos on the human body.
• Professor Emeritus of City & Regional Planning Michael Dear worked in collaboration with journal staff members and CED students Michelle Hook (M.L.A. ‘16) and Stephanie Lin (M.L.A. '16) on the geography, identities and ambiguities of transborder lines between the United States-Mexico border in “Imagining a Third Nation: US-Mexico Border, 1848-2016.”
• Nate Kauffmann (M.L.A. ‘14) envisions the future of the Bay Area’s 1,000 linear miles of coastline in “LEAP: Live Edge Adaptation Project,” which considers how the coastline will ultimately be remade from the impact of rising waters, erosion, and degradation of infrastructure.
• Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning and Urban Design Karl Kullmann explores the historical and phenomenological aspects of Walter Benjamin’s path of no return in “Route Fittko.”

Delineations is now available online for preorder, but can also be purchased at William Stout Architectural Books, Dog-Eared Books, and the CED Materials Store in the Fabrication Shop. You can also digitally access the entire issue for a limited time here.

GROUND UP Journal’s theme and call for submissions for the next issue will be released in the fall, and are typically due by the end of the year. Contact Cristina Bejarano at cristinabe@berkeley.edu for orders or inquiries.