Episode 040 | Nadia Amoroso: Visualizing Climate Action

About this episode

Craig Applegath speaks with Nadia Amoroso about the role of visual communication in climate action and the importance of making climate futures visible.

“Make climate futures visible - We have to show positive change!” In this episode, Craig speaks with landscape architect, researcher, and educator Nadia Amoroso about the power of visual communication in shaping climate action. Drawing from her latest book, Representing Landscapes: Visualizing Climate Action, Nadia explores how drawings, mapping, and storytelling can help communities better understand environmental change and imagine more hopeful futures. “Visualization isn’t just representational, it’s an instrument.” Nadia reflects on how her early interest in architecture evolved into a fascination with public spaces, environmental systems, and the larger ecological forces shaping cities and landscapes. Over time, this led her toward a career focused on visual communication in landscape architecture and climate adaptation. The conversation also traces the origins of Nadia’s influential Representing Landscapes book series, which began nearly 15 years ago as a response to a gap in design education. At the time, students had limited access to examples of innovative representation techniques for wetlands, infrastructure, public spaces, and complex ecological systems. “How do we…

People in this episode

Host: Craig Applegath

Guest: Nadia Amoroso

Topics covered

• climate action
• visual communication
• landscape architecture
• environmental change
• storytelling
• design education

Keywords

• climate futures
• visualization
• environmental systems
• public spaces
• ecological forces
• design education
• storytelling

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Representing Landscapes: Visualizing Climate Action, Representing Landscapes

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