Faculty Profile
Matthew Potteiger

Professor

Department of Landscape Architecture
202 Marshall Hall

mpotteig@esf.edu
315-470-6554

Education

• University of California, Berkeley - MLA, 1982
• Pennsylvania State University - BSLA, 1978

Current work

Professor Potteiger's teaching, research, and community engagement centers around the vital cultural practices that shape landscapes. His current work links food and landscape systems through community-based projects aimed at creating a more sustainable and socially just food systems. This work includes the creation of Syracuse Grows, an urban agriculture advocacy group, a peri-urban farm with New American Refugees, and the first regional food system plan for Central New York, Food Plan CNY. He is the co-author, with Jamie Purinton, of Landscape Narratives: Design Practices for Telling Stories, which received a merit award from the American Society of Landscape Architects for its contribution theory and practices of using narratives in landscape interpretation and design.

Teaching Experience

• Ball State University (3 years)
• Place/culture/design, Off-Campus Program Director, Food Systems Design, Design Studios,
• SUNY College of Environmental (1984 - Present)

Practice Experience

• Collaborative design consulting with Jamie Purinton
• Resource Perspectives Inc. (6 mo.) - Graphic presentations
• San Francisco Community Design Center (7 mo.) - Play area design
• Berman French Associates (3 mo,) Site planning

Courses Taught

• LSA 226 - Foundation Design Studio I
• LSA 326 - Design Studio -- Site systems
• LSA 312 - Place/culture/deisgn
• LSA 327 - Design Studio II
• LSA 424 - Preparation for Off Campus Design Thesis Studio
• LSA 425 - Orientation for Off Campus Design Thesis Studio
• LSA 460 - Off Campus Design Thesis Studio
• LSA 461 - Off Campus Final Presentation Seminar
• LSA 470/670 - Thematic Landscape Design Studio -- Food Systems Design
• LSA 496 - Food Systems Planning, Design, and Policy
• LSA 601 - Design Studio II
• LSA 620 - Design Studio III