https://www.heterogeneousfutures.com/home daily 1.0 2020-06-18 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ee0021fb0a0c50f51cd1da2/t/5eea372790a7270cbbf651e2/1592408004910/dronova_env_heterogenity.jpg Home - Building upon the landscape ecology movement heterogeneous futures is at the nexus of anthropological and ecological biodiversity as a means for creating a more resilient public realm. Image by Iryna Dronova, Visual Aesthetics in Environmental Heterogeneity https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ee0021fb0a0c50f51cd1da2/t/5eea30e6aa8c0109bb5310eb/1592406262307/LAF+Fellowship+-+Hetergeneous+Futures_Draft+Presentation+2_Page_05.png Home https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ee0021fb0a0c50f51cd1da2/t/5ee91a38da5d765f1e805953/1592335342670/Revised%2B-%2BHeterogeneous%2BFutures%2B%2528Without%2BPulse%2BVideo%2529_Page_10.jpg Home - Lived experiences matter in the shaping of land and creation of open spaces It is those people, those lived experiences, that have shaped the vast majority of the land on this planet. The many vibrant open spaces we move are not designed by “Landscape Architects” https://www.heterogeneousfutures.com/speakers daily 0.75 2020-06-16 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ee0021fb0a0c50f51cd1da2/t/5ee1a05aad91175058ab07fa/1591845299783/330A4752.jpg About - Lead Researcher Diana Fernandez, ASLA, PLA Diana (she/her) is a proven thinker, collaborator and leader, who teams effortlessly with architects, planners, urban designers, ecologists and civil engineers on the design of equitable and sustainable places. Her experience spans a broad range of projects from planning to built work. Diana provides critical thought and design leadership for our landscape and planning practice in the Urban Studio. She brings to each project - as well as a myriad corporate initiatives - strong critical thinking, a willingness to engage in thoughtful debate, and a commitment to quality. She leads and champions better equity and inclusion in our planning and built design practices from a landscape perspective. She writes and lectures in the discourses of landscape architecture, urban design, and equity. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ee0021fb0a0c50f51cd1da2/t/5ee1a37d13476845630356ff/1591845775101/20140301_Trade-151_0124-copy.jpg About - “From the mountains of the Dominican Republic to the streets of NYC, to my current home outside of Boston, I root myself as a designer in my lived experiences of space and place. My work is defined by “unlearning” and making space for inclusive futures that embrace and celebrate our differences in the physical manifestation of place.” https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ee0021fb0a0c50f51cd1da2/t/5ee91cc58c596b1abf6b6a3a/1592343969299/Stephen_Gray_091015_mug.jpg About - Stephen Gray — Stephen Gray was the lead academic advisor for the research. In 2015, Stephen Gray founded Grayscale and joined the faculty of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design to work at the intersection of urban design practice and research. Previously a senior urban designer at Sasaki, he brings more than a decade of experience working with municipal agencies, colleges and universities, private developers, non-profits, multinational NGOs, and the public. Stephen’s personal background directly influences his work and allows him to make meaningful contributions in culturally dynamic and sometimes contentious urban settings. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ee0021fb0a0c50f51cd1da2/t/5ee91daad1c6ac21c83f9169/1592335797824/EalHOnfWkAc0gDH.jpg About - Breeze Outlaw — Breeze (zie/zir & they/them) was a the lead landscape designer on the Frederick Douglass Project. Breeze is a landscape designer whose work addresses the perceptual and physical connections of equitable and just access to public spaces. In zir work, zie explores frameworks of equity that emphasize place- keeping through futurism, cultural expression, and natural systems. Breeze believes in design as a tool to empower people and reflect the place. Before joining Sasaki, Breeze worked as a food systems designer. Zie collaborated with community stakeholders, food producers, and municipalities to envisioned small and large scale, both built and planning projects, which strategically address sustainable food practices and food access disparities. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ee0021fb0a0c50f51cd1da2/t/5ee91f699df8d26a4cc6f8b0/1592336544417/_MG_8708.jpg About - Mel Isidor — Mel Isidor was the urban designer on the Frederick Douglass project and a cross-research collaborator sharing data sets from her research initiative A Voice at the Table focused on affirmative spaces for womxn in Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. Mel (she/her & they/them) is an interdisciplinary planner, artist, & researcher. Mel’s work has largely been centered on Boston-based projects that seek to elevate Black narratives in planning practice and the physical landscape. Her creative spirit stems from a fascination with architecture and the built environment, seeking to unpack how our urban fabric reflects people and culture. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ee0021fb0a0c50f51cd1da2/t/5ee921ca68b5f0074338d7bd/1592336849766/20140301_Trade-151_0124-copy.jpg About - Beth Meyer — Beth Meyer was an academic advisor and guided research and readings for the project. Beth Meyer believes landscape architecture is a socio-ecological spatial practice with its own vocabularies and theories, yet discourse about the designed landscape is hampered by reliance on interpretations by those outside our field. Since the late 1980s, Meyer has addressed this problem by produced a substantial body of theory and criticism that has altered how practitioners around the world create new landscape imaginaries. Grounded in the materiality and experience of actual sites as well as contemporary cultural issues, Meyer’s public lectures and essays challenge conventional design practice by questioning the separation of aesthetics and sustainability; race theory and urban topography; public space, living systems and non-human species; cultural landscape interpretation and innovative design. Currently Meyer is writing a book, The Margins of Modernity, that reframes the history/theory of modern landscape architecture as a vital, but marginal, practice of city formation and place–making defining this 160-year-old profession’s significance in its hybrid spatial logics, material practices and temporal rhythms. https://www.heterogeneousfutures.com/schedule daily 0.75 2020-06-11 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ee0021fb0a0c50f51cd1da2/t/5ee245773dba006e9bea4597/1591887260751/LAF%2525252BFellowship%2525252B-%2525252BHetergeneous%2525252BFutures_Draft%2525252BPresentation%2525252B236.jpg Coming Soon - Heterogeneous Futures Illustrated Book - A Vision for Pluralism in collaboration with Sabrina Dorsainvil COMING SOON Check back soon for a preview of the book! https://www.heterogeneousfutures.com/the-formula-for-homogeneous-space-making daily 0.75 2020-06-17 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ee0021fb0a0c50f51cd1da2/t/5ee942dd099fb0104af67f81/1592345322905/LAF%2BFellowship%2B-%2BHetergeneous%2BFutures_Draft%2BPresentation%2B2_Page_16.jpg Homogeneous Space Making - This is not new to america, from our romanticization of the wild lands ripe for the conquering, lands which were stolen and remain stolen to this day, to public space policies such as loitering laws that define how and whom should be using open space, to the heart breaking 400 yrs of oppression and injustice many black and brown bodies face in public space. No Landscape is not neutral - rather it’s the most poignant expression of power in america. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ee0021fb0a0c50f51cd1da2/t/5eea2f17f8b7215d54e34af0/1592405801711/LAF+Fellowship+-+Hetergeneous+Futures_Draft+Presentation+2_Page_17.png Homogeneous Space Making https://www.heterogeneousfutures.com/heterogeneous-indicator-project-examples daily 0.75 2020-06-17 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ee0021fb0a0c50f51cd1da2/t/5eea3273aa8c0109bb53626c/1592406657641/LAF+Fellowship+-+Hetergeneous+Futures_Draft+Presentation+221.jpg Heterogeneous Indicators + Project Examples https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ee0021fb0a0c50f51cd1da2/t/5ee947c042ee761d1554b9bd/1592346764581/96129_00U_N4_website-1800x1200.jpg Heterogeneous Indicators + Project Examples - Heterogeneity in Practice Frederick Douglass Memorial in the Roxbury community of Boston is a great example of how this state of consciousness permeated the entire design process - from our acceptance of the other and community defined beauty - and to be clear I am not romanticizing trauma and under-investment as key to redefining beauty what I hope you can see is how this community is capable of creating their own definition of beauty and resilience. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ee0021fb0a0c50f51cd1da2/t/5ee9491f33fbb22602cd0772/1592346987197/330A6402.jpg Heterogeneous Indicators + Project Examples - To our intentional focus on creating space for healing by bringing a spoken word artist to establish a common ground and spiritual connection to the community. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ee0021fb0a0c50f51cd1da2/t/5ee949dbbc964a75e1974250/1592406756512/FD_june6.JPG Heterogeneous Indicators + Project Examples Collage by Mel Isidor https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ee0021fb0a0c50f51cd1da2/t/5ee94c13ef723d300fb64cb0/1592406742831/Revised+-+Heterogeneous+Futures+%28Without+Pulse+Video%29_Page_22.png Heterogeneous Indicators + Project Examples MASS Design | Sasaki https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ee0021fb0a0c50f51cd1da2/t/5ee94bc2f3180a31c6c49a7f/1592406736280/190916_pulse_Booklet_Two_Final_low+%282%29_Page_38.jpg Heterogeneous Indicators + Project Examples MASS Design | Sasaki https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ee0021fb0a0c50f51cd1da2/t/5ee94d64da88b1752af27de6/1592348268989/Revised+-+Heterogeneous+Futures+%28Without+Pulse+Video%29_Page_23.png Heterogeneous Indicators + Project Examples - To ensuring that ecological systems not only reflect a rich habitat for animals and insects but also connecting community and people to those systems and taking the provinces of the 49 lives lost and identifying their places of origin using plants that portray this multiculturalism Diagram created by Andrew Sell https://www.heterogeneousfutures.com/data-mapping daily 0.75 2020-06-17 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ee0021fb0a0c50f51cd1da2/t/5eea3467aa8c0109bb53d095/1592407155865/Revised%2B-%2BHeterogeneous%2BFutures%2B%2528Without%2BPulse%2BVideo%2529_Page_25.jpg Data Mapping - Mapping Social, Cultural & Linguistic Data Points From Design with Nature from Ian McHarg to The Social Life of Public Spaces by William H. Whyte, our understanding of complex human systems is barely visible in our design documentation as designers of public spaces. Often we rely on community engagement meetings with predefined agendas to justify our understanding of the complex, social, cultural and linguistic mechanism. It’s time to go beyond postcards and sticky note exercises and leverage the latest technology to help us document and visualize anthropological systems. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ee0021fb0a0c50f51cd1da2/t/5ee950ee8be8e141ae96ed73/1592349228260/Revised+-+Heterogeneous+Futures+%28Without+Pulse+Video%29_Page_27.png Data Mapping - Visualizing Data Using open source mapping tools that illustrate and define the complex human systems that depict space. To understand how the everyday urbanism of a community defines a design vernacular. And to explore visualization such as this collage created by Mel Isidor that portrays the inherent beauty defined by a community. Digital representation matters! https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ee0021fb0a0c50f51cd1da2/t/5eea2fa59f645d1a620ad78e/1592405991282/Revised+-+Heterogeneous+Futures+%28Without+Pulse+Video%29_Page_29.png Data Mapping Collage created by Mel Isidor for A Voice at The Table Research