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Concurrent Education Session

MON-B08: Franklin Park: Designing Toward an Invitation to Participate

Monday, October 7, 2024
2:00pm – 3:15pm ET
Location: Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Room 144ABC
1.25 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AICP, NY/HSW, FL

A paradigm shift in the engagement of National Park Service holdings, Franklin Park—Washington D.C.’s largest downtown park—represents a prototype collaboration between multiple agencies all interested in positively informing a 21st-century sustainable and accessible civic park. This is a unique engagement that revivifies a historic park, inviting all to participate.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Learn about strategic partnerships in the stewardship of civic parks and historic landscapes, and the balance between vision and outcome in significant civic park projects.
  • Understand how “managed change” can bring culturally significant landscapes into the 21st century, making history relevant to contemporary society.
  • Appreciate how “accessibility”—the invitation to participate—can positively inform the breadth of the population and increase diverse attendance in civic parks.
  • Appreciate the challenges of managing historic cultural landscapes with multiple agencies with oversight.