Registration Eligibility
ASLA online learning opportunities are open to all. ASLA members may purchase this presentation at a reduced rate. This is a 2025 conference session.
Start Date
10/20/2025
End Date
10/20/2027
Description
Codified spatial regulations criminalize one’s ability to live while unhoused. This research explores how social exclusion moves beyond the design of the physical realm to the design of data that determines policy. By exposing these invisible frameworks, we challenge who is recognized, receives support, and remains unseen in our landscapes.
Distance Learning
Yes
Course Equivalency
No
Subjects
Health, Safety and Welfare
Yes
Hours
1.25
Learning Outcomes
Broaden perspectives of urban homelessness and gain understanding of how to incorporate empathetic approaches that center lived experiences into design practice.; Learn how codified spatial regulations, and the “public” spaces we design within them, disproportionately target and criminalize unhoused individuals.; Explore how designers can use their skillsets and agency to engage urban ecosystems beyond the built environment via policy discussions, resource networks, and data systems.; Discover methods for how multidisciplinary research and data analysis can be successfully incorporated to influence design practice and expand beyond traditional design work.
Instructors
Allison Nkwocha ; Tanushri Dalmiya
Course Codes
Provider
American Society of Landscape Architects