A collaboration with Rice Grounds Facilities Engineering and Planning, 

 is a living installation that explores the social, environmental, and cultural dimensions of alternative landscape maintenance practices.

The 10,000 square-foot installation replaces an area of mowed lawn on the Rice Campus with a prairie garden. The prairie is given form through a process of selective mowing, thereby reducing mowing costs and impacts on campus and providing a new public garden.

More info can be found at our Prairie Plots 

Houston, TX

Prairie Plots

Dept. is a landscape architecture and urban design studio that provides creative, useful, and adaptive design responses for the public and the environment.