Great Lakes Land Stories Project

Bringing people together to share personal experiences of Great Lakes lands and places.

Land Stories gatherings interweave guided storytelling with sensory exploration and art-making, to draw out new perspectives on relationships to land and place. People emerge with new knowledge of others’ experiences, and uniquely crafted objects that express personal understandings of land.

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Supporting Land Stewardship

Planning, facilitating, advising

With decades of experience and refined expertise in landscape-related research, design, visioning and communication, Living Site helps clients develop vital and meaningful relationships with land, in ways that contribute to a more sustainable, just and thriving world.

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Nurturing Land Cultures

Cultivating connections

Night walks, water-gathering, dancing by the sea. Through years of making and teaching, we have developed an array of methods for bringing people into closer connection with the living world. Through a range of conversations and activities we bring out ways that land touches personal heritages, and explore how everyday place-based actions can reveal deep connections with living beings, geologies, and histories.
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Envisioning Land Relationships

Engaging imagery to show complex dynamics
Drawings are excellent at expressing and explaining living relationships. We work with people to envision sites and real-world systems: for a range of uses, from small projects to large.
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