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Concurrent Education Session

TUE-A06: Transcending Anglo/American Olmstedian Design to Create Culturally Responsive Spaces and Places

Tuesday, October 8, 2024
8:30am – 9:45am ET
Location: Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Room 152AB
1.25 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AICP, NY/HSW, FL

What if all the music on Spotify and iTunes was based on English, French, and Italian compositions from before 1900? Would that serve you? Or most Americans? In some significant ways, this is our situation in American landscape architecture. Where are the R&B, ranchera, hip-hop, pansori, and Afrobeat landscapes?

Learning Outcomes:

  • Learn to recognize the cultural basis/bias of landscape elements often considered “standard.”
  • Learn a replicable process for engaging communities in creating landscapes that embody their cultures.
  • Build a vocabulary of concrete examples of how common landscape elements and design forms change when culture is taken into consideration.
  • Learn how to talk about the cultural basis/bias of landscapes in ways that new audiences can hear and accept.