International Design
Education Session - Panel Format
1.5 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AIA/HSW, AICP, FL, NY/HSW
Jorge Alarcón, Assoc. ASLA
Project Architect and Landscape Architect
Traction
Leann Andrews
Project Landscape Architect
Traction
Brian Gerich, AIA
Project Architect
Architects Without Borders
Joseph Zunt
Neurologist and Professor of Global Health
University of Washington
Ben Spencer, ASLA
Associate Professor
University of Washington
Landscape architects join forces with global health professionals to tackle poverty, ecosystem degradation, and health inequities in developing countries through participatory landscape interventions. Three case studies of interdisciplinary design/build research projects working with informal “slum” communities in Lima and Iquitos, Peru, and Kathmandu, Nepal, show measured improvements in human and environmental health.