Registration Eligibility
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Start Date
06/05/2024
End Date
06/07/2024
Description
On April 30, 2019, a tragic shooting occurred on the University of North Carolina at Charlotte campus in Kennedy Hall. Two students were killed and four were wounded. To mark this tragic event and to honor those impacted, the University released a national request for qualifications from design teams to create a commemorative space integrating art and landscape in December 2020. Out of 36 entries, the Constellation Garden proposed by the team of TEN x TEN, Hypersonic, and Susan Hatchell Landscape Architecture, PLLC was selected. On April 28, 2023, as part of UNC Charlotte’s Day of Remembrance, the memorial was dedicated with favorable public response. The Memorial honors the lives of those lost and acknowledges the enormous tragedy that occurred while creating a space that can evolve, teach, and heal.
“Elevating Memory and Light in the Landscape” is a panel discussion that explores the process undertaken by the Constellation Garden Remembrance Memorial design team from early sketches through final construction. The panelists discuss steps taken to balance the grief, pain, and trauma of a horrific event with the design and construction of an uplifting place of remembrance, honor, and healing. The interactive and uplifting structure elevates remembrance of the event while encouraging connection between visitors to the site. Because time changes campus demographics, the Memorial was also designed to serve as a quiet, shady garden for solitude, gathering, and contemplation by faculty, staff, and students.
Location
Asheville, NC
Distance Learning
No
Course Equivalency
Yes
Subjects
Campus Planning & Design
Health, Safety and Welfare
Yes
Hours
1.0
Learning Outcomes
Effective ways to add meaning to the landscape to create a healing space
How to work through a difficult and sensitive subject with various stakeholders
How a diverse team of landscape architects, artists, lighting designers, engineers, and fabricators navigated completing this complex and sensitive project
Instructors
1. Susan Hatchell2. Maura Rockcastle3. Bill Washabaugh
Course Codes
B5-A
Provider
North Carolina Chapter of ASLA