Almost everything that landscape architects design is ultimately
for a community. Community can be the boon or bane of a project,
and oftentimes both. LA+ COMMUNITY aims to explore how, over time,
each of us moves in and out of multiple communities, shaping them
as they shape us, and in turn shaping our landscapes and cities. We
ask how different disciplines construct different ideas of
community and how those communities are anchored in space and time,
whose interests they serve, and what traces they leave. And we
examine how - in this pluralistic, fragmented, and fluid world -
designers can meaningfully engage with communities. Contributions
from: Anne Whiston Spirn reflects upon her personal and
professional journey through her long-term engagement with the Mill
Creek community in the West Philadelphia Landscape Project.
Architect and cofounder of the DisOrdinary Architecture Project
Jocelyn Boys discusses how designers and policy-makers make
assumptions about the "ordinary user" of public space and explores
ways of understanding and improving how people with disabilities
engage with such spaces. Historical geographer Garrett Dash Nelson
contemplates the conceptual and practical slippages between
understanding community in both its geographical and sociological
forms, and what this means for designers seeking to give spatial
form to the concept of community. A multi-perspective Q+A with
BIPOC designers, educators, and artists Kofi Boone, Julian Agyeman,
Hanna Kim, Alma du Solier, Jeffrey Hou, Melissa Guerrero, and Kat
Engleman confronts the enduring practices of spatial injustice and
the need for new processes, engagement, and outcomes for a racially
and culturally inclusive future. Philosopher and author Mark
Kingwell considers the literal ins and outs of the question "What
is community?" in the midst of a global pandemic. Landscape
architect Kate Orff speaks about the ways in which she uses
community activism and different practices of engagement to drive
better design outcomes. Criminologists James Petty + Alison Young
open our eyes to the rise of hostile architecture and
criminalisation of homelessness in public space. Designer Chrili
Car reflects on lessons learned from working with a self-organised
community in a remote village in northern Ghana to masterplan
long-term local sustainability and greenbelt projects. Ecologist
Jodi Hilty, President and Chief Scientist of the Yellowstone to
Yukon Initiative, speaks about the realisation of this visionary
wildlife-corridor project spanning 3,200 km, two countries, and
hundreds of different communities and interests. Historic
preservationist and planner Francesca Russello Ammon teases out the
contradictions in the canonical urban renewal success story of
Philadelphia's Society Hill. Landscape architect Jessica Henson
gives us the inside story on the intractably complex
socio-political and ecological task of master planning a 51-mile
swath of the Los Angeles River with a diverse range of user
communities. Michael Schwarze-Rodrian recounts the extraordinary
achievements of the Emscher Landscape Park in Germany's Ruhrgebiet,
where over the last 30 years a working-class community facing the
trauma of transition to a post-industrial economy has been
sustained by the medium of landscape, without the forms of
displacement or gentrification typically associated with high-end
greening. Urban planner and author of Just Sustainabilities Julian
Agyeman elucidates what the culturally inclusive design of public
space entails. Architect Mario Matamoros delivers a stinging
critique of the way in which developers and designers in the
Honduran city of Tegucigalpa dupe the public with cynical community
consultation so as to anesthetise the possibility of dissent, and
Sara Padgett Kjaersgaard interviews the CEO of the Federation of
Traditional Owner Corporations, Paul Paton and landscape architect
Anne-Marie Pisani about working with Indigenous communities in
Australia to help facilitate self-determination and connection to
their lands.
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