Image Credit: African American Design Nexus (aadn.gsd.harvard.edu)
Date: Wednesday March 4, 2020
Time: 4:30 PM
Room: PLS 1130
Description of Talk
Landscape architecture has been the most viable way to positively shape place, and give vulnerable populations not only a voice, but a tool for strengthening and sustaining the communities in which they live. The most creative and sustainable design and place making evolves from the creativity, knowledge and expertise of both the landscape architects and the communities they serve. This presentation will explore projects that use engagement techniques and trans-active design for creative and sustainable place making.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will learn
- the steps taken in an inclusive engagement process.
- trans-active engagement tools.
- how to translate and transfer outcomes from the engagement process into the design process.
- how to incorporate and continue community engagement throughout the design process.
Bio information / resume
Diane Jones Allen is currently the Program Director for Landscape Architecture, College of Architecture, Planning, and Public Affairs, at the University of Texas at Arlington. She is also Principal Landscape Architect with DesignJones LLC in New Orleans, Louisiana which received the 2016 American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Community Service Award. In 2017, she served on the ASLA Blue Ribbon Panel on Climate Change and Resiliency. Diane also serves on the Board of the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF), contributing to the diversity and climate change sub-committees. Diane received the 2017 Distinguished Alumni Award from the College of Environmental Design, University of California at Berkeley. Diane was elected to the American Society of Landscape Architects Council of Fellows in 2019, Her research and practice is guided by the intersection of environmental justice, identity and sustainability in cultural landscapes, including “Nomadic” responses to “Transit Deserts,” places of increasing transportation demand and limited access, as discuss in her book “Lost in the Transit Desert: Race, Transit Access, and Suburban Form” published by Routledge Press in 2017. Diane, recently co-edited “Design for Democracy: Techniques for Collective Creativity”, published by Island Press in 2017.
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