FRI-B02 - Storytelling Through Design: Honoring Diverse Voices

Friday, November 19, 2021

3:45 PM – 5:00 PM CDT

Location: Music City Center, Room 103

Compliments of:

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

Lead Speaker(s)

Nathan Schleicher

Creative Director
Earthscape Play
Wallenstein, Ontario

Speaker(s)

Karen M. Hunter, MBA, PMP

Project Manager
Colliers Project Leaders
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Kenneth J. Kokroko, ASLA

Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

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

Storytelling is a powerful design medium. It can communicate ideas, convey knowledge, honor or confront the past, and challenges us to contribute our own stories. As we strive towards a renewed understanding and approach to collaborative design through engagement with diverse communities, storytelling is fundamental to the creative process.

Learning Outcomes:

Discover how stories and storytelling can act as the driving creative force behind powerful community-first designs that reflect the communities in which they are located.
Explore the complexities of addressing issues of representation, cultural sensitivity, and appropriation in partnership with indigenous communities.
Highlight how storytelling informs thoughtful planning and design of recreational and play spaces and can act as a catalyst for reconciliation, healing of urban trauma, and community dialogue and co-authorship.
Understand how innovative approaches to public engagement and integration of a variety of perspectives and histories can contribute to the creation of truly unique spaces that appropriately serve communities.