The Arid Lands Institute is an education, outreach, and research center of Woodbury University, dedicated to issues of aridity, climate change, and the design of the built environment.  ALI’s mission is to train designers and leaders who produce innovative solutions to water scarcity in the American west.

Based in Burbank | Los Angeles, ALI provides an array of transdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate study opportunities, including a one-year post-professional MS.Arch specialization and an immersive short-term Summer Field Station.

ALI’s seminars include history, policy, cultural geography, and environmental science offerings.  ALI’s design studios operate at the intersection of architecture, infrastructure, landscape, and urban design and provide intensive training in Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

ALI supports applied design research that bridges science, policy, and design of the built environment.  Students and faculty work together to provide collaborative, non-profit planning and design advisory services to communities, public agencies, and property-owners in the rural, suburban, and urban west.

ALI’s public programs include technical workshops, lecture series, conferences, and symposia.  While ALI maintains an applied research focus on dry lands design for the American west, it actively engages discourse on dry lands design worldwide.

For more information on the Arid Lands Institute, please visit : aridlands.woodbury.edu .