David Buckley Borden, Interdisciplinary Designer & Artist
In residence, December 30, 2024-January 20, 2025

About the Artist

David Buckley Borden is an interdisciplinary designer and artist working at the intersection of art, design, and ecology. Informed by research and community engagement, David promotes a shared environmental awareness and heightened cultural value of ecology. David’s place-based projects highlight both pressing environmental issues and everyday phenomena. Using an accessible, often humorous, combination of visual art and landscape design, David’s work manifests in a variety of forms, ranging from site-specific public art installations in the woods to data-driven cartography in the gallery.

David is currently a Fellow in Innovation and Leadership at the Landscape Architecture Foundation where he explores the question, “How can science-communication be reimagined as a collaborative design process between landscape architects and research scientists at long-term ecologic research sites?” As a Harvard Forest Associate and Designer-in-Residence at the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest, David continues to collaborate with scientists to champion a cultural ecology supported by interdisciplinary environmental-communication. David’s creative practice is supported by his critical writing with research scientists including recent co-authored work in MIT’s Leonardo Journal, Boston Art Review, and the Routledge Handbook of Art, Science, and Technology Studies. In support of David’s public facing projects, his collaborations have been featured in a wide variety of media outlets ranging from Landscape Architecture Magazine, Hyperallergic, Orion Magazine, Arnoldia, and NPR’s Living on Earth.

David studied landscape architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and worked as a designer at Sasaki before focusing his social practice at the intersection of landscape, creativity, and cultural event. David continues to periodically work with landscape architecture firms as a consultant, including recent collaborations with Agency Landscape + Planning, Sasaki, and Rios.

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