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Education Session - Panel Format

SAT-A07 - Building Community Through Landscape: Lessons from the Field

1.5 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AICP, FL, NY/HSW

Moderator(s)

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  Anne Whiston Spirn, FASLA

  Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Panelists(s)

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  Claire Latané, ASLA, SITES AP

  Senior Associate
  Studio-MLA
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  Brice Maryman, ASLA

  Senior Landscape Architect
  MIG|SvR

In a country that is fractured spatially, politically, and economically, public space offers unique possibilities for experiments in reconciliation. We’ll explore opportunities for landscape to support social resilience in Seattle, Los Angeles, and the rural South, framed by lessons learned during 30 years of the West Philadelphia Landscape Project.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the ways in which social and cultural systems can work towards environmental injustice.
• Illustrate the importance of landscape to social resilience.
• Evaluate the role of the landscape architect in designing for environmental justice and reconciliation.
• Identify new opportunities to generate social resilience through the design of public space.