Landscape architects and other design professionals and educators come together to address racial injustice and equity in the places they teach and the communities they serve. Often the immensity of the problem mutes the actions one takes. This panel of design thought leaders will discuss and demonstrate how landscape architecture as a field of study and practice can reach beyond its academic and professional limits to research issues, design spaces, and programs, and engage with communities in long-term commitments as equal participants in a civil and equitable society. Following the opening presentations, there will be moderated breakout discussions.
Presenters:
• Richard Alomar, RLA, ASLA, Associate Professor and Department Chair of Landscape Architecture, Director, Office of Urban Extension and Engagement, Rutgers University
• Andrea Roberts, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Associate Director, Center for Housing and Urban Development, Texas A&M University
• Anita Bakshi, Assistant Teaching Professor of Landscape Architecture, Rutgers University
• June Grant, RA, NOMA, Design Principal, blink!LAB architecture
• David Tulloch, Professor of Landscape Architecture, Associate Director, Grant F. Walton Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis, Rutgers University
• C.L. Bohannon, Ph.D., ASLA, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, Associate Director, School of Architecture and Design, Director of the Community Engagement Lab, Virginia Tech
• Julie Stevens, ASLA, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, Iowa State University
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