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Concurrent Education Session

SUN-C03: How We Practice Matters: Making Space for Landscape Activism

Sunday, October 6, 2024
2:00pm – 3:15pm ET
Location: Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Room 146B
1.25 PDH, LA CES/non-HSW, AICP, NY/non-HSW, FL

“Landscape Activism” explores the depth, complexity, and entrepreneurship of diverse activist practices today that are bringing greater visibility, equity, depth of understanding, and ultimately, transformative change to more inclusive public landscapes and the nature of landscape architecture itself.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Embrace the challenges of raising the visibility and value of African American cultural landscape heritage through public engagement strategies for culturally significant places.
  • Understand the challenges of raising the visibility/value of our shared landscape heritage through managing change in significant African American cultural landscapes and the role that landscape architects can play.
  • Appreciate the complexities of working within marginalized/disenfranchised communities and the role that landscape architects can play in healing and commemorating a site’s history and its associated cultural lifeways.
  • Learn about the facilitation of multiple narratives and congruent activities across culturally sensitive sites.