![]() What’s not to love about this cutting-edge strategy to manage and recognize rain?Īt Penn State, landscape architecture faculty members Stuart Echols and Eliza Pennypacker have been studying ARDs across the United States since 2005, gleaning from built works a range of useful ideas to inspire and inform designers of future ARDs. ARD employs the latest ideas in stormwater treatment to ensure that runoff is cleaned, controlled, and reused and it does so in a landscape that educates, entertains, and enlightens, making sure that people recognize rain as a resource, not a waste product. ‘Artful Rainwater Design’ (ARD) is an approach to stormwater management that combines the best of green infrastructure with placemaking that celebrates rain. The event was hosted by Penn State University’s Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. ![]() ![]() Artful Rainwater Design, a green infrastructure design event that celebrates rain, brought together faculty, students and eco-enthusiasts for a symposium sharing innovative ideas for capturing stormwater runoff. Stormwater management as art? Absolutely. ![]()
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