FRI-C01: Rural Projects Now

Friday, November 11, 2022

1:30pm – 3:00pm PT

Location: Moscone Center, Room 303

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

Lead Speaker(s)

Matt McMahon, ASLA

Director, Landscape Architect
Snøhetta
Long Eddy, New York

Speaker(s)

Tanya Olson, ASLA

Tanya Olson, PLA
Tallgrass Landscape Architecture
Custer, South Dakota
David M. Hill, ASLA

Graduate Program Chair + Associate Professor
Hillworks and Auburn University
Auburn, Alabama

The landscape architecture profession’s origin in the late 1800s tethered our work to wealth, politics, and power associated with urban areas and the coasts. This call-to-action panel questions this lingering bias, assembling practitioners who have adapted discipline and design approaches to oft-looked-over rural communities.

Learning Outcomes:

Question how the profession’s origins and relationships with cities, coasts, and associated wealth and politics come to neglect rural locales.
Discover tools and strategies that allow landscape architects to bridge political & cultural divides in communities where design is not understood or valued.
Understand how rural design work can employ land management techniques to advance both community and ecological goals.
Find ways that landscape architects can participate in project formation, ensuring limited rural resources are applied strategically. What is the right project? Is it a design project at all?