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
What is it to be redbird, water, a cottonwood? Learn how participatory park design fosters healing through Indigenous, local, and historic perspectives. By integrating cultural narratives, promoting reciprocity, and strengthening partnerships, we restore ecosystems and gain understanding of our own identities through the experiences of other beings.
Distance Learning
Yes
Course Equivalency
No
Subjects
Historic Preservation
Health, Safety and Welfare
Yes
Hours
1.25
Learning Outcomes
Form partnerships that include strategies for engaging Indigenous and other diverse communities and incorporating feedback on themes like play, connection, and uniting ecologies and histories.; Learn specific presentation and inquiry methods to effectively and respectfully engage Indigenous communities, focused on initial research that prompts and inspires stories and feedback.; Learn how storytelling can shape design elements, using Indigenous narratives to influence play features, planting choices, and pathways that encourage learning through experience and cultural exploration.; Learn how park design connects people and ecology, emphasizing the role of reciprocity in restoring relationships with the land, wildlife, and communities and ensuring systematic positive impacts.
Instructors
Darin DeLay ; Jennifer Mahan
Course Codes
Provider
American Society of Landscape Architects