Oklahoma Farm Reporter Maci Carter met with Professor Qing Luo to discuss the upcoming Outdoor Living Space Design workshop series.
“This design course has a series of three days of classes,” said Qing Luo, an associate professor and extension specialist in landscape architecture at Oklahoma State University. “It’s all about residential outdoor living space design, and it’s a hands-on course, so the participants will learn how to design their yard and organize their functional areas, including their deck, patio, pools, fire pits, outdoor kitchen-shaped structures, water feature pavings, seating, and gardens.”
The course is designed to be intensive and focus on main themes of design throughout the varying days, Luo said.
“This class will include all the five basic design elements that includes topography, landform paving structures water, and plants, organize all of these above elements together and then plant them into one whole outdoor living space,” Luo said.
Luo added this course is open to the public and is for anyone interested in design and creativity. No prior experience is required.
“After the three days, participants will learn the most important fundamental knowledge that they can bring home and that they can spread out drawings and look at their own backyard, their neighbors or their community spaces and design and plan their own outdoor living space,” Luo said.
The event is set to take place May 10, May 17 and May 24 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. To register for the event, visit the OSU Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture Facebook event page. For more information, Professor Qing Luo can be reached at qing.luo@okstate.edu.
