Critical Curiosity: Design Processes that Challenge Norms - 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
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Three practice leaders will share how design research, curious methods and provocative questioning provide a critical foundation for their work. These stories will explore how different scales of practice are challenging the normative environment of professional practice through process-oriented ways of working, engaging, and thinking.
Learning objectives:
- Explore the fundamental duality within the field at the intersection of art and science.
- Understand how various analog, digital, analytical tools, and other curious methods catalyze innovation and grow sets of knowledge around design process, critical research, engagement, and post occupancy evaluation.
- Explore case studies of active projects through a sharply focused exploration of process, experimentation, and research.
- Understand the successes, challenges and needs of the professional relationships and practice models that are fighting to do this work.
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Maura Rockcastle, ASLA
Principal and Co-Founder
Ten x Ten
Maura is a landscape architect, co-founder and principal of TEN x TEN. With a background in printmaking and sculpture, Maura balances a rigorous approach to leadership and design innovation with a conceptual sensibility rooted in process. Maura’s professional experience is focused on cultural, institutional, and complex public realm projects. Her work has received national awards for design excellence, preservation, and innovation. In 2015 she co-founded TEN x TEN to build a practice committed to horizontal co-authorship, radical transparency, and curiosity. TEN x TEN’s mission is to co-create compassionate, immersive, and resilient spaces that confront the issues of our time.
David Seiter, RLA
Founding Principal & Design Director
Future Green Studio
David Seiter is design director and founding principal of Future Green - a studio focused on design, fabrication, and research in Brooklyn, NY. Winner of the prestigious Emerging Voices Award from the Architectural League of NY, David's portfolio encompasses high-profile private and public-use projects – including commissions from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rockefeller Center, and the Brooklyn Children's Museum. He is author of Spontaneous Urban Plants: Weeds in NYC – a book about the overlooked ecological value of weeds. David lectures widely about emergent trends in landscape architecture and recently taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Pratt Institute.
Rebecca S. Popowsky, ASLA, SITES AP
Research Associate
OLIN
Rebecca Popowsky is a landscape architect and Research Associate at OLIN, where she leads the firm’s research group, OLIN Labs. Her grant-funded research includes waste-based material design and practice-based research models. Rebecca has contributed to a wide-range of design and construction projects including Canal Park in Washington, DC, Dilworth Park in Philadelphia, and collaboration with the Army Corps of Engineers to restore the FEMA floodplain at the Potomac Park Levee on the National Mall. Rebecca teaches core and advanced design studios, research and professional practice courses at Penn Design and is undertaking a PhD in Practice-based Research at Virginia Tech.
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