University of Guelph - Landscape Architecture Guest Lecture Series presents:

Alison Hirsch [1], 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 [2].

All welcome to attend.  If you are interested in joining, please email Cameron Graham [3], LA student guest lecture assistant.  Landscape Architecture Guest Lecture Coordinator:  Nadia Amoroso, Associate Professor.