As part of the Design for Early Learning symposium, which was held in Tacoma in April 2025, Brice Maryman delivered the following remarks about the MxM team’s work on early childhood learning spaces.

What might one learn from a careful examination of Peter Walker’s built works, developed across a range of conditions and geographies over the past six decades? Scott’s response is the book Refining Nature: The Landscape Architecture of Peter Walker. Structured according to landscape systems (i.e. topography, vegetation, water) rather than chronology or project type, Scott sought out and experienced forty projects, scattered across six countries on four continents to trace Walker’s significant contributions to contemporary landscape design. Available from Stout Books, Amazon, and direct from Birkhäuser.

Building civic infrastructure is at the core of MxM’s mission, but what defines civic infrastructure. This year-long initiative, The Atlas of Civic Infrastructure, strives to deepen our understanding of what we’re building, how it’s embraced and, ultimately, who the “we” is that we are building for. This is an exploratory initiative and we hope you will enjoy exploring this topic with us.

In August 2019, Landscape Architecture Magazine’s cover story explored Brice’s work exploring what has become one of the most pressing questions facing our civic commons: the intersection of homelessness and public space.

After being invited to help develop planning strategies for a growing monastery high on the Tibetan Plateau, Scott reflected on this distinctly rewarding project and ways in which design methods may be employed in unique contexts through his article "Finding the Heart of Landscape in Eastern Tibet," published in Topos.

Writing for Landscape Architecture Magazine, Brice explored the implications of the Supreme Court’s Martin v Boise decision for public space designers and managers.

For The Seattle Times’ Project Homeless Ignite talk, Brice spoke about how the design of our urban landscape has led to the public space and homelessness crisis we see today.

Hong Kong’s Discovery Bay presents an emergent typology for integrating urban growth at significant densities within a rich topographic condition. A mixed-use development primarily devoted to residences, Discovery Bay manifests commercial success even as the collective project highlights risks in combining urban convenience with landscapes of leisure before more comprehensively establishing the social structures of community. Scott's article "Resort Urbanism: The Role of Landscape in Hong Kong’s Discovery Bay" was published in LA+ Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture.

At the start of the COVID pandemic, Brice shared his thoughts about what we could learn about public space from our new normal, writing: “The ordinary can be heroic, and small fixes can be the next big infrastructure stimulus project.”