Design Activism: Uplifting Black and Immigrant Leadership in American Public Space Design

Registration Eligibility

ASLA online learning opportunities are open to all. ASLA members may purchase access at a reduced rate. This is a 2020 conference session recording.

Start Date

11/24/2022

End Date

11/23/2024

Description

This panel introduces leading voices who employ design activism in their work within black and immigrant communities in the United States. Participants will learn about how community design processes can be employed to celebrate the outstanding historical and cultural contribution of black and immigrant communities.

Distance Learning

Yes

Course Equivalency

Subjects

Design-Build

Health, Safety and Welfare

Yes

Hours

1.0

Learning Outcomes

Understand the importance of design activism and its critical role in an increasingly multicultural, multiracial United States.; Understand how to both authentically engage and work as partners with black and immigrant communities in the public space design process.; Learn about unique public space design features advocated for by black and immigrant communities, and the role of landscape designers in making community ideas a reality.
.; Learn what neighborhood advocacy could look like after designing and opening a public space, to both ensure its success and address neighborhood-wide systems change.

Instructors

Jose Gutierrez, ASLA; Jeffrey Hou, ASLA; Mel Isidor

Course Codes

Provider

American Society of Landscape Architects

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