FRI-D01: Designing for the Bereaved at the Nation's First Black-led Grief Support Center

Friday, November 11, 2022

3:30pm – 4:30pm PT

Location: Moscone Center, Room 203-204

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

Lead Speaker(s)

Alden E. Stoner

CEO
Nature Sacred
Annapolis, Maryland

Speaker(s)

Annette R. March-Grier

President and Co-Founder
Roberta's House
Owings Mills, Maryland
Alice Storm Storm-Jones, ASLA, PLA, CPSI, LEED AP BD+C

Principal
Floura Teeter Landscape Architects, Inc.
Baltimore, Maryland

In Baltimore, at the first black-led grief support center in the country, nature is being architected to help aid the grieving process. Join this session to learn how nature spaces can be designed to support and strengthen programming focused on hope and healing.

Learning Outcomes:

Learn how landscape design is being applied specifically to aid in the grieving process.
Learn from a nonprofit leader why she prioritized an investment in nature as part of her facility and services expansion project.
Learn what science is teaching us about the role of nature in a trauma context.
Learn how this particular user community was engaged in the charrette process.