Description

Beauty, equity, and resilience are elements of good design and yet they are often isolated. Experienced designers will consider projects in which they designed as a means to foster equity by creating beautiful places or as a way to create more enduring and resilient designs in the public realm.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand how landscapes are designed to be both beautiful and equitable
• Appreciate the role of landscape to contribute to social justice and equity
• Explore the contributions of beauty and design to improving the public realm
• Gain a deeper understanding of the role of the public realm in designing for beauty and equity

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Speaker(s):

• Gina Ford, FASLA, Principal and Co-Founder, Agency Landscape + Planning
• Thaisa Way, ASLA, University of Washington
• Diana Fernandez, ASLA, Associate, SASAKI
• Shannon Nichol, FASLA, GGN