FRI-B05 - Equity in Nature: Transforming Neglected Urban Land in Baltimore into Bliss Meadows

Friday, November 19, 2021

3:45 PM – 5:00 PM CDT

Location: Music City Center, Room 102

1.25 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AIA/non-HSW, AICP, FL, NY/HSW

Lead Speaker(s)

Alden E. Stoner, na

CEO
Nature Sacred
Annapolis, Maryland

Speaker(s)

Vernon Hustead, ASLA

President
HUSTEAD Landscape Architecture, LLC
Lewes, Delaware
Atiya Wells, BSN, RN

Executive Director
Backyard Basecamp
Baltimore, Maryland

1.25 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AIA/non-HSW, AICP, FL, NY/HSW

US cities are becoming greener, but many communities are being left behind. This session will share lessons on community-led design from Nature Sacred and the evolution of Baltimore's Bliss Meadows, 10 formerly neglected acres being transformed by and for a predominantly Black community.

Learning Outcomes:

Keys to cross-cultural nature-based collaboration in an era of racial reckoning
Lessons learned from 25 years of community-rooted charrette-driven design
Community-driven and centered greening — creating fruitful collaborations when community is client
How to build broad and diverse coalitions for large community-driven projects