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Joseph Emmanuel Ingoldsby trained in art and landscape
architecture with Ian McHarg, who mentored him on Design
with Nature. Mr. Ingoldsby’s work combines art, science and
technology to advocate for vanishing landscapes and
endangered species. The artist can play an integral role in the
raising of the public consciousness through advocacy. Art can
be used to communicate complex ecological and scientific
principles to an audience outside of the confines of the
academy. This eulogy for Vanishing Landscapes and
Endangered Species must be told with an urgency that speaks
to the immediacy of the visible and documented changes in our
world. The collaborative works examine, explain and illustrate
issues as climate change, fragmentation of the landscape,
broken trophic cascades, species shifts and extinction, and the
loss of the natural and cultural landscape.
Fragmentation of the Natural and Cultural Landscape
I am interested in exploring the natural and cultural history of
the Midwest. The lecture outlines the historic, political and
technological shifts that advanced the westward manifest
destiny, and their impacts on the natural and cultural
landscapes of the region. The illustrated lecture traces out the
progressive imprint and impact of settlement and infrastructure
on the native landscape over time.
The lecture is outlined in the following slides.
I. Physiographic Regions of the Lower 48 United States
• Pacific Mountain system
• Intermontane Plateaus
• Rocky Mountain System
• Interior Highlands
• Interior Plains
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Central Lowland
- Great Plains Province
• Appalachian Highlands
- New England Province
• Atlantic Plain
• Laurentian Upland
II. Great Plains
•
Tall
Grass
Prairie
•
Wildland
Fire
and
Ecosystems
• Indigenous People of the Great Plains
• American Bison
• Transcontinental Railroads
John Deere
• Agricultural Settlement History
• The Dust Bowl
III. Icons of the Vanishing Prairies
• American Bison
• Gray Wolf
• Bald Eagle
• Nachusa Grasslands
• Midewin National Tall Grass Prairie
IV. Wisconsin Prairie and Savanna
• Indigenous People of the Prairie and Savanna
- Settlements and Effigy Mounds
• Whooping Cranes
• Silent Shadows of Whooping Cranes
• Environmental Advocacy for an Endangered
Species
• Shrouds for an Endangered Species
• Spirits of Whooping Cranes
• Crane Effigy Mounds
- Design Precedents
• Massasauga Rattlesnake
- Serpent Mound
• Karner Blue Butterfly
V. Landscape Mosaics
• Panicum virgatum Mosaics
• Wetland Plan Palette, Necedah
• Wetland Mosaic
• Sand Plain
• Sand Plain Mosaic
• Coastal Sand Dunes
• Sand Dune Mosaic
• Leaves in Grass
• Leaves in Grass, detail
VI. Requiem for a Drowning Landscape
• Salt Marsh Memorial Plan
• Salt Marsh Memorial Installation
• Salt Marsh Requiem Plan
• Salt Marsh Dieback Documentation
• Salt Marsh Dieback
• Salt Marsh Broken Tropic Cascade
VII. Landscape Mosaics
• Anadromous Fishery
• Anadromous Awakening