Penelope Boyer's Contact Details

Penelope Boyer's Company Details

Land Art Generator Initiative

Pittsburgh, PA, US • 5 - 9 Employees
Architecture Firm/Engineering Firm

With a mission to advance a just and equitable energy transition in response to the climate crisis, the Land Art Generator initiative (LAGi) helps design places for people that share land use with distributed renewable energy generation. Works of art in civic space distribute clean energy and provide other sustainable services to buildings and the utility grid while beautifying the built environment. We help public and private organizations meet their greatest potential as they plan, design, and implement new clean energy projects and regenerative communities. LAGi design competitions bring forward innovations in sustainable design that capture the imagination of the world. Land Art Generator co-design projects and Solar Mural installations demonstrate the benefit of applying best practices of creative placemaking, urban design, and civic art to new renewable energy projects. Education is a key part of our nonprofit mission. The innovative and artful applications of sustainable technologies can spark the imaginations of young people and trigger curiosity in science, technology, engineering, and math. Land Art Generator educational programming is a great example of STEM to STEAM and project-based learning. Through the process of designing their own land art generator, middle school and high school students show applied understanding of concepts like energy conversion efficiency, capacity factor, and become familiar with using kilowatt-hours. At the same time they are applying knowledge of form, shape, color, and touching on aspects of urban planning and whole systems design. These are exactly the kind of skills that researchers tell us will be important for jobs in the twenty-first century.