About the Founder Kim Sorvig (kim@meaningfulplaces.com) is a noted landscape architect, design critic, and environmental author. He has over 28 years of experience creating, teaching and writing about interpretive and sustainable places. Internationally known for his work as Contributing Editor of Landscape Architecture magazine and as co-author of Sustainable Landscape Construction, he is a sought-after speaker and consultant. View Kim Sorvig's Vita (pdf file)
MEANINGFUL PLACES work is transformative, re-awakening people’s awareness of landscape, place, and planet. MEANINGFUL PLACES creates both ecological and social profit, enhancing, recycling or reviving the value of places. MEANINGFUL PLACES aims to “teach a person to fish” and avoids work that, in effect, takes a person’s last fish. Making environments for people must help them participate in their environments again. MEANINGFUL PLACES creates or enhances beauty in the human environment. Environmental beauty is not merely decorative, but indicates adaptive fit. MEANINGFUL PLACES seeks positive, restorative work: producing something good, not just staving off something bad. MEANINGFUL PLACES knows that sustainable work requires joy, adventure, growth, and compassion. MEANINGFUL PLACES work grows out of past efforts & is a seedbed for future projects.
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