Fionn is currently a Design Critic in Landscape Architecture at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Byrne’s design research is primarily focused on the moral underpinnings of contemporary landscape architecture. Through establishing the rise of the environmental movement as an antithesis to military development, his research questions the ability to deploy ecology as a ethical and just science used to circumvent politics. This conceptual framework helps drive an associated set of propositional design projects engaged with understanding design as a tool to mitigate between industrial and ecological acts at the territorial scale and precise material decisions at the detailed level. Byrne previously served as an associate at Lateral Office and has worked with the Planning Group at HOK, both in Toronto.  Fionn will be presenting a selection of his recent and ongoing work and associated teaching.