Designing the Land Around Us

Our first Drinks & Design focuses on “good” home design or at least, trying to define what that really means. Next, we will be diving into what makes “good” landscape design. In building a new home, you inherently will need to manipulate the landscape around the structure. How does one maintain continuity between the home design and the landscape around it? Is the landscaping purely built for aesthetic or does it generate produce? And where are the future trends going, especially in sustainability and integration of techniques like permaculture?

Design surrounds us. The streets we walk down, the phones we tap on, the homes we live in. 4D EDU, in affiliation with 4D Design + Consulting, wants to help Sioux Falls home builders and homeowners understand “what the heck design is anyway?” Enter Drinks & Design, a new event happening the end of every month at the Design Center in Downtown Sioux Falls. These gatherings will host a panel of design experts from a multitude of backgrounds and career fields, focusing in on home design in the Sioux Empire. And of course, there will be good food, beer & wine.

Panelists
Cole Weller, Co-President of Weller Brothers Landscaping
Aaron Veskrna, Landscape Designer at Oak Ridge Nursery
Veronica Shukla, Co-Founder of Project Food Forest