Brooke Bulmash

Undergraduate Fellow

“I'm very into the whole hands-on design experience. The issue with technology becoming so prevalent in design is that it distances us from what we're designing. And part of what makes design so great is that it’s a human act. You know, there is creativity to it. By distancing ourselves from that, we lose something fundamental.”

What do you want to get out of this summer?

“I had an internship two summers ago at an architecture firm. I kind of know how that workflow goes. It’s fun and all, but it gets really boring after a while. Whereas, here, there's always something new to be discovered. If you talk to people at lunch about what they're researching, you always learn something new.”

“It’s so beautiful out here and that alone has been a major thing. We were with David Marchant [Artist-in-Residence] at the end of the first week. There was this moment when we got to the top of the hill, it kind of flattens out up there, and you can see out above the valley. I just closed my eyes and took a deep breath. There was something so peaceful about being in the forest like that.”

“That’s one thing I want to take away from this experience - just the appreciation of being outdoors.”

Brooke worked with Micah Stanek’s Landscape Agents team during summer 2019. Learn more about their exploration into research garden design here.