2018: Powerful Dialogue – Engaging Community Issues in Polarizing Times
Presentation Title
Hearing questions: Deep Listening to Identify Community Needs in Open Space Design
Keywords
community engaged scholarship, leadership, planning, landscape design
Description
Kingery-Page and her students in landscape architecture work with communities to plan and design open spaces. These service-learning efforts often begin before a project is funded or even clearly envisioned. The student/faculty team sees their role as deep listening, using adapted ethnographic (interviews and observation) and humanities methods (archival research and projective design) to understand community identity, needs, and vision. Two recent urban examples, the ICT Pop-Up Urban Park and Chester Lewis Park in Wichita, Kansas exemplify the participatory design methods used by this team.
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Hearing questions: Deep Listening to Identify Community Needs in Open Space Design
Kingery-Page and her students in landscape architecture work with communities to plan and design open spaces. These service-learning efforts often begin before a project is funded or even clearly envisioned. The student/faculty team sees their role as deep listening, using adapted ethnographic (interviews and observation) and humanities methods (archival research and projective design) to understand community identity, needs, and vision. Two recent urban examples, the ICT Pop-Up Urban Park and Chester Lewis Park in Wichita, Kansas exemplify the participatory design methods used by this team.
