SAT-A05: LGBTQ+ Cultural Landscapes: Identification, Preservation, and Visible Futures

Saturday, November 12, 2022

11:00am – 12:15pm PT

Location: Moscone Center, Room 203-204

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

Lead Speaker(s)

Maxwell Dickson, Assoc. ASLA, AICP

Landscape Designer
OLIN
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Speaker(s)

Ken Lustbader

Co-Director
NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project
New York, New York
AC Panella, PhD

Professor, Communication Studies
Santa Rosa Junior College
Oakland, California

The session will explore the often-untold stories of LGBTQ+ people within public spaces. We will collectively investigate the history of LGBTQ+ landscapes, review case studies from New York and San Francisco, and explore the role of landscape architects in imagining new futures for culturally significant LGBTQ+ landscapes.

Learning Outcomes:

Learn about LGBTQ+ culturally important landscapes focusing on San Francisco, New York, and other sites nationally and how these spaces began, evolved, and their status today.
Articulate why LGBTQ+ landscapes have largely gone undocumented in local, state and federal cultural resource management programs and the progress and challenges of preserving sites of significance to LGBTQ+ communities.
Understand why increased representation and visibility of LGBTQ+ landscapes is important, and strategies and partnerships to increase visibility within our communities to create more inclusive, safe and equitable built environments.
Discover how landscape architects can share LGBTQ+ histories by working with LGBTQ+ communities and experts in the field to preserve, interpret sites and stories in meaningful and culturally relevant ways.