It Takes a Village: Reflections on a Community-led Design Process - 1.0 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Description

As landscape architects and allied design professionals work closely with underserved populations, it is imperative that we employ design processes that prioritize community-led action. This session offers a discourse in engagement, design, and implementation methodologies that empower communities to assert their right of civic ownership over public spaces.

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Learning Objectives:

• Learn a variety of engagement methodologies that can be used with diverse audiences to build trust, elicit design inspiration, and sustain community consensus.
• Analyze the strengths of community-led design in navigating the social, legal, and political intersections between designers, community members, public entities, and private investors.
• Discuss alternative methods of design documentation and implementation that are accessible to designers and non-designers alike.
• Evaluate the relationship between community-led design and tactical urbanism as an inclusive and intuitive placemaking tool for non-designers.

Speaker(s):

• Matt Whitaker, ASLA, Principal, WMWA Landscape Architects
• Ryan Wang, Assoc. ASLA, Project Designer, WMWA Landscape Architects
• Genesis the Greykid, Fine Artist / poet / creative, Genesis the Greykid