SAT-B04 - Decolonization Pollinators: Reclaiming and Hybridizing a Latin American Landscape Architecture

Saturday, November 20, 2021

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CDT

Location: Music City Center, Room 207

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

Lead Speaker(s)

Patricia Algara, ASLA

Founding Principal
BASE Landscape Architecture, Inc.
San Francisco, California

Speaker(s)

Gabriel Diaz Montemayor, ASLA

Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture
University of Arkansas Fayetteville
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Jason Prado

Landscape Designer
Miridae
Sacramento, California

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

500 years since the fall of pre-colonial America and we are still confronting issues of race and the built environment. Can we integrate native traditions, ecological wisdom, and socio-environmental responsibility to produce a discipline and profession specific to the continent?

Learning Outcomes:

Connect with other Latinx in Landscape Architecture, create a conversation, and expand a network towards the decolonization of landscape architecture.
Look at pre-Columbian open space design concepts and explore how to apply them in contemporary design.
Learn foundational, theoretical, historical, and ethical principles to depart towards the production of a discipline and profession of Landscape Architecture which is specific to Latin America, its peoples, and regions.
Investigate new modes of practice that aim to be inclusive and address lack of representation in positions of power in the field.