Harry J. Webb Lecture

Kate Orff

Scape and Columbia University, New York

Kate Orff is the founder of Scape. She focuses on retooling the practice of landscape architecture to address climate change and foster social life, which she has explored through publications, activism, research, and projects. She is known for leading complex, creative, and collaborative work processes that advance broad environmental and social prerogatives.

Kate was named a 2012 United States Artist Fellow, an Elle Magazine “Planet Fixer,” and shared Scape’s design methodologies at the International TEDWomen Conference in 2010. She graduated with a Bachelor of Political and Social Thought from the University of Virginia and earned a Master in Landscape Architecture from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Kate is also the director of Columbia University’s urban design program.