Jamie Vanucchi

Jamie Vanucchi is an associate professor and director of undergraduate studies. Jamie’s teaching and research test the capacity of design and design research to address our most pressing 21st-century problems. She is interested in “strong sites”, landscapes driven by change in the form of powerful constructive and destructive processes, and design that intentionally intersects with those processes and unfolds in time. Current projects include the study of floodplains as unique, disturbance-driven landscapes and potential community assets, the restoration of floodplain buyouts, designed forests for climate mitigation, and framing design research as a distinct mode of knowledge production that is complementary to science and especially needed now due to the novelty and uncertainty of climate-changed futures. Her research is funded by NIFA, Cornell’s Atkinson’s Center for Sustainability, The Landscape Architecture Foundation, and Cornell Council of the Arts. Jamie has a small design-build practice and she is a partner with the Great Lakes Design Labs and LoDo Lab at CU Denver.

Selected Publications

Journal Publications

• In preparation. Vanucchi, J., Ozayr Saloojee, and Dr. Sarah Dooling. “Design Research for Uncertain Futures”. Accepted for publication by Actar and ORO Publishers, 2021.
• Vanucchi, J. “Rethinking Inland Floodplain Housing: Disturbance, Risk, and Uncertainty as Drivers for Design”, book chapter in Climate Adaptation and Resilience Across Scales: from Building to Cities, edited by Nicholas Rajkovich and Seth Holmes; Routledge expected date of publication is fall 2021.
• Vanucchi, J. “Crossing the Line”, Scenario Journal 05: Extraction. Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania. See http://scenariojournal.com/article/crossing-the-line/ (2015)