SUN-B02: Landscape Is Place: Cultural Planning, Storytelling, and Environmental Restoration in Rural California

Sunday, November 13, 2022

2:00pm – 3:15pm PT

Location: Moscone Center, Room 207-208

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

Lead Speaker(s)

Mikey Goralnik, ASLA, AICP

Senior Community Design and Development Planner
Mariposa County Planning Department
Mariposa, California

Speaker(s)

Kimberly Garza, ASLA, LEED AP

PRINCIPAL
Atlas Lab Inc.
Sacramento, California
Tara Fouch-Moore

Tribal Secretary & Project Manager
Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation (AICMC)
Mariposa, California

Public art can center marginalized voices, and drive planning initiatives which support healthy landscapes. This panel explores Mariposa County and the Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation’s design-driven Creative Placemaking Strategy, and this collaborative effort’s tangible benefits for landscape health and climate change resiliency.

Learning Outcomes:

Recognize the critical nature of co-creation in landscape architecture, public art, and design, and leverage this approach to build authentic partnerships through the planning and design process.
Learn strategies for applying the design process and context-sensitive, community-driven landscape architecture and public art to drive a transformative cultural planning, storytelling, and community design project.
Identify opportunities to amplify diverse voices and center marginalized community perspectives, especially those with expertise in local landscape management and restoration practices and ecological sense of place.
Explore methods for translating art-driven community engagement outcomes into implementable planning deliverables, more inclusive public policy, and tangible environmental restoration projects that support healthy and resilient landscapes in California.