Rural Projects Now - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
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The landscape architecture profession's origin in the late 1800s tethered our work to wealth, politics, and power associated with urban areas and the coasts. This call-to-action panel questions this lingering bias, assembling practitioners who have adapted discipline and design approaches to oft-looked-over rural communities.
Learning objectives:
- Question how the profession's origins and relationships with cities, coasts, and associated wealth and politics come to neglect rural locales.
- Discover tools and strategies that allow landscape architects to bridge political & cultural divides in communities where design is not understood or valued.
- Understand how rural design work can employ land management techniques to advance both community and ecological goals.
- Find ways that landscape architects can participate in project formation, ensuring limited rural resources are applied strategically. What is the right project? Is it a design project at all?
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Matt McMahon, ASLA
Director, Landscape Architect
Snøhetta
Matt McMahon, ASLA, is a landscape architect and director with Snøhetta. He is attracted to overlooked landscapes, ideas, and people, raising questions around perception, poetry, and power. His work places him between disciplines, often playing with context and scale, history and time. Matt draws upon twenty-three years of professional and academic experiences in landscape architecture, ecology, and architecture. He currently leads the design of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, ND. Matt and his family reside in Long Eddy, NY, a hamlet in the Upper Delaware River Valley.
Tanya Olson, ASLA
Tanya Olson, PLA
Tallgrass Landscape Architecture
Tanya Olson, PLA, ASLA, is passionate about design in and for rural communities and people. Her firm, Tallgrass Landscape Architecture, practices across one of the most sparsely populated regions in the Nation. Their mission is to help create flourishing communities with high quality everyday lives through collaborative place-inspired design. Tanya is the SD Section Chair of the Nebraska / Dakotas Chapter of ASLA, on the Executive Board of the Custer Area Economic Development Corporation and Foundation, and the Dakota Resources Advisory Board.
She is a Dakota Rising Fellow ('19). She received her BLA and MLA from the University of MN.
David Hill, ASLA
Graduate Program Chair + Associate Professor
Hillworks and Auburn University
David Hill is the Graduate Program Chair and Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at Auburn University as well as the Founding Principal of Hillworks Landscape Architecture in Alabama. Prior to founding Hillworks, David helped unearth post-industrial landscapes as an Associate and later a Principal of D.I.R.T. studio in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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