Terragrams is a podcast series disseminating discussions about the landscape. As our societal conscience and appreciation of the landscape heightens, Terragrams provides a wide portal into landscape architecture and the lives and thoughts of the professionals who shape it. The project aims at capturing, distributing and archiving these voices. It is an easily accessible, open audio digital archive aimed at collecting first-hand, face-to-face conversations between and about people in and around the field.

Terragrams gives a voice to the profession's diverse individuals, to mature as well as recognized professionals and young hopeful upstarts, designers and theorists. Neighboring fields contribute greatly to the discourse about design, offering insight and inspiration. Terragrams expands the dialogue to include those that feed, stimulate and challenge from beyond normative boundaries of practice or academia. The exchanges, meant to catalyze further dialogue, emerge from a vast array of topics raised by the lives and practices of designers, planners, geographers, curators, authors,academics and historians.

When we listen, we learn. Terragrams is committed to disseminating experience: we hear the inner thinking of the scholar, the working process of the designer. We listen to the search upon entering the profession, the challenges of building a career, the struggles of juggling multiple roles, and the rewards or regrets of reflecting back upon a lifetime of contribution.

Terragrams brings to life how others have and are forging the profession and is an indispensable resource for students and professionals alike. Experience and knowledge need be shared. Unlike built or printed legacies, our oral legacies, the stories we share about our life and work, are ephemeral and fragile. If not recorded they disappear. If and when passed down or shared they mutate. Terragrams is a living trace, an audio podcast distributed instantly in a mobile, easy to use format. Its worldwide reach acts as a cross-cultural, interdisciplinary liaison for all those who pose interest and curiosity. It captures and archives the human legacy of landscape architecture by documenting and preserving its voices, a collection of diverse and at times surprising personal narratives.