Description
Since our inception, EKLA’s best-known work has quietly challenged mainstream assumptions about the aspirations and needs of underrepresented voices. EKLA’s studio practice reflects the apprenticeship traditions of Black-owned firms to uphold design methodologies rooted in diverse narratives. We hear we are different: so what, exactly, is EKLA? Alumni and current staff discuss approach, legacy, and future.
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Learning Objectives:
- Understand how the practice focus of BIPOC design practitioners shaped EKLA’s professional ethos and business strategy at its inception.
- Understand why EKLA’s approach to narrative investigation engages and redefines a broader critical understanding of place and identity.
- Learn why EKLA’s focus on teaching through client service has worked for all concerned.
- See why EKLA’s practice model lays groundwork for the future.
Speaker(s):
- Elizabeth
Kennedy,
ASLA,
Principal,
Elizabeth Kennedy Landscape Architect, PLLC
- Ken
Keltai,
ASLA, RLA, ISA,
Landscape Architecture Practice Leader,
H2M architects + engineers
- Suzanne
Greene,
ASLA,
Consultant,
Elizabeth Kennedy Landscape Architect, PLLC
- Yifan
Sun,
RLA, ASLA,
Landscape Architect
- Justin
G. Moore,
AICP, NOMA,
Program Officer,
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
