Join us for a symposium on November 14-15, 2024, at the Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania: What is the Future of Cultural Landscape Preservation?
The Urban Heritage Project (UHP) and partners are organizing an in-person gathering on the state of cultural landscape preservation – in theory, policy, and practice. Building on a series of virtual events, we’ll be convening a series of discussions and presentations by academics and practitioners to delve into the critical aspects of preserving cultural landscapes today, including the challenges and models for future work.
The practice of cultural landscape preservation presents big opportunities to expand the reach of preservation. Cultural landscape thinking reckons with the complexity of places continuing to evolve through time and space, and challenges professionals to bring historical, scientific, social, and design intelligence to bear on the future of these places. As both an established idea and as a critical means of reform, cultural landscape ideas and practices have unrealized potential and deserve deeper exploration. This symposium brings together a range of practitioners, scholars, and policy makers to examine the impact and the potential of cultural landscape work. We invite you to join these ongoing conversations about realizing the potential of cultural landscape as a preservation, creative, and social practice.
DAY ONE
Keynote session: Agendas for Change
- Andrea Roberts, PhD, University of Virginia
- Robert Melnick, FASLA, University of Oregon
Session 1: Emerging Perspectives in the National Park Service Cultural Landscape Program
- Allison Kennedy, Intermountain Region - National Park Service
- Noel Lopez, PhD, National Capital Region - National Park Service
- Julie McGilvray, National Capital Region - National Park Service
Session 2: Cultural Landscape Work in Design
- Kofi Boone, FASLA, North Carolina State University
- David A. Rubin, FASLA, DAVID RUBIN Land Collective
- Thomas Woltz, FASLA, Nelson Byrd Woltz
DAY TWO
Session 3: Indigenous Communities and Cultural Landscape Collaboration
- Samantha Odegard, Upper Sioux Community Pezihutazizi Oyate
- Lisa Prosper, ERA Architects
- Brenda Williams, FASLA, Quinn Evans
Session 4: Bridging Theory and Practice - What is New and Next in Research?
- Manish Chalana, PhD, University of Washington
- Azzurra Cox, University of Pennsylvania
- Beth Meyer, FASLA, University of Virginia
- Thaïsa Way, PhD, FASLA, Dumbarton Oaks / Harvard University
Closing collaborative session: Articulating Futures for Cultural Landscape Preservation
- Gretchen Hilyard Boyce, Groundwork Preservation
- Sean Dunlap, Land Tangles
- Angelina Ribeiro Jones, National Capital Region - National Park Service
- Jenny Lauer, Nelson Byrd Woltz
- Megan McPherson, New South Associates