LA Guest Lecture: Alison Hirsch

University of Guelph - Landscape Architecture Guest Lecture Series presents:

Alison Hirsch, Associate Professor and Director of both the graduate program in Landscape + Urbanism and the Landscape Justice Initiative at the University of Southern California. 

Lecture on "Seeking Landscape Justice"

Image:  Dr. Alison Hirsch

Dr. Alison Hirsch, PhD, FAAR, is Associate Professor and Director of both the Graduate Program in Landscape Architecture + Urbanism and the Landscape Justice Initiative at the University of Southern California. Alison’s authored and edited books include City Choreographer: Lawrence Halprin in Urban Renewal America (University of Minnesota) and The Landscape Imagination: Collected Essays of James Corner (Princeton Architectural Press).  She is co-founder and Research Director of Foreground Design Agency, a critical landscape practice. Alison is currently deeply immersed in research on the working landscapes of the San Joaquin Valley as a landscape of extreme inequality and risk, supported by the Landscape Architecture Foundation Fellowship for Innovation and Leadership (2020–2021). Alison is also currently working on a book, The Performative Landscape, which emphasizes sociocultural dynamics as catalysts for physical design, challenging common conceptions that participatory or socially-oriented design processes must sacrifice the spatial, material and formal qualities of the landscape architectural project.

Lecture kindly supported by the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects.

All welcome to attend.  If you are interested in joining, please email Cameron Graham, LA student guest lecture assistant.  Landscape Architecture Guest Lecture Coordinator:  Nadia Amoroso, Associate Professor.