Ground Up Journal
Faculty Advisor
​http://laep.ced.berkeley.edu/groundupjournal/groundupwp/

​The ingredients for founding Ground Up journal coalesced in 2010: a cohort of motivated students observing a problematic gulf between scholarship and practice in landscape architectural discourse; the painful privatization of a public institution in response to an unprecedented crisis of funding; an employment landscape offering few opportunities in the shadow of the Great Recession; and the Occupy Movement sweeping through campus, signaling the revival of public space as a locus of political activism after years of apathy.  Into this landscape of uncertainty, Berkeley graduate students of landscape architecture created Ground Up both in defiance and in anticipation of the potential of landscape as an agent of change.  In the time since the inaugural edition, people, politics and praxis has moved on.  Across six editions, Ground Up has also evolved, but remains true to its roots, tackling themes in an expanded field of landscape architecture that are timely, without slavishly following the whims of intellectual fashion.