Undocu Week Leadership Without Borders March 7-11, 2022 | 5-7 PM Undocu Week is hosted by Leadership Without Borders (LWB) and consists of a series of weeklong events that provide knowledge, resources and more to the UW community and beyond! This is the week’s itinerary—all events will be from 5-7pm in the ECC Unity Suite! There will be fun prizes at select events that include Undocu Week swag, music, food and more! We welcome everyone to join us as immigration is an intersectional issue that…
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Online Resources
Nakani Native Program Barriers to Revitalizing PNW Traditional Food Cultures Seminar recording and more. EPA Launches EJScreen 2.0, Updating the Community Environmental Justice Mapping Tool *Excerpted EPA announcement The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has updated and redesigned EJScreen, the Agency’s publicly available, award-winning environmental justice (EJ) screening and mapping tool. The redesigned tool, which has been named “EJScreen 2.0”, makes important improvements to better meet the needs of users and provides expanded insight into potential EJ concerns in overburdened communities….
UWASLA Updates
Digital and physical models of Jack Block Park from 2.11 and 2.18 workshops at Denny International Middle School. The UW Diversity Seed Grant funded the project “Empowering BIPOC Youth: Pathways to Sustainable Design Futures” under the leadership of UWASLA Youth Outreach Chair Maria Arevalo (BLA ‘23). Maria has continued to work with students of Proyecto Saber at Denny International Middle School (see our last newsletter for a recap of the first session). Fellow UWASLA students Erin Irby (MLA ‘22), Heewon Kim (BLA ‘22), Isa Lewis (BLA ‘23), and Katie Rankin (BLA ‘23) helped support…
CBE Diversity Council Updates
CBE BIPOC Lunch: On Wednesday, February 23rd, the College of Built Environments’ Diversity Council hosted its first BIPOC Student Lunch at the Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center on Wednesday, February 23. The aim of the lunch was to provide a fun, inclusive space for BIPOC students from the different CBE disciplines to meet and converse. The lunch was a great success! We had a lively group of folks from all departments and we look forward to hosting another BIPOC student…
Curriculum Corner
Students at Ecolibrium Farm in Woodinville, WA Kristi Park and Tim Lehman on L ARCH 502A The Farm Studio The “Farm Studio” included an in-depth look at food cultivation focused on a peri-urban, 12 acre site in Woodinville, WA. Students were given the freedom to deep dive on many topics related to the food systems including community building, equitable access to food, public policy, land-use law, agricultural education, and climate resilience. This course also explored the journey of food systems from…
Faculty Feature
Professors Thaïsa Way and Ken Yocom recently published a chapter, “Infrastructural Wilderness: Seattle and the Binding of City and Region” in the new book Urban Cascadia and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice (2021,UW Press) edited by Nik Janos and Corina McKendry In Sept 2021, Professor Jeff Hou and colleagues produced a report from their CELA (Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture) panel last year, “Decolonizing Landscape Architecture Education.” You can find the reports here: Part 1 and Part 2. Professor Lynne Manzo will be presenting at the CELA 2022 conference later this month…
Alumni Feature
Jocine Velasco (MLA ’21), Rhys Coffee (MLA ’23), and Ken Yocom are working closely with the Burke Museum, the UW Native American Advisory Board, UW Grounds and Maintenance, and the design firm GGN to study the health and viability of a camas meadow recently designed and installed at the Burke Museum on the UW campus. The collaboration is working to develop interpretive strategies to communicate the importance of this habitat type in the Cascade region for indigeneous communities while also seeking to understand how the…
Student Feature
Stephanie Roh (MLA ’22) Third-year MLA student, Stephanie Roh completed a Valle Scholarship in Scandinavia in Autumn 2021. Her project, “Space For Us: Designing Landscapes of Belonging for Immigrants in Copenhagen + Malmö” focuses on the role of public space in helping immigrants feel welcome in their new homes. Stephanie notes, “I decided to study this topic at the intersection of landscape architecture and immigration based on my growing passion for landscape justice issues as well as my previous experience as an exchange…
WIN ’22 Department JEDI Committee Updates
Spring Town Hall Meeting 1.14.22 Students from Denny International Middle School design interventions at Jack Block Park – more updates from UWASLA below. The Dept JEDI Committee is organizing a department-wide Town Hall event this April to consider how to center JEDI work in Landscape Architecture. This will be an opportunity for all of us to come together as a community to discuss how to incorporate JEDI work into our field and consider how justice and equity relate to our…