Gardens for BIPoC
Graham Visitor Center, Washington Park Arboretum
Ongoing, Monthly
Schedule, urbhort@uw.edu
Gardens for BIPoC is a new, free monthly tour that takes place in the Washington Park Arboretum, serving folks that identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or …
Category: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
WASLA | Call for Design Leads – Empowering BIPOC Youth: Pathways to Sustainable Design Futures
For the next cohort UWASLA Youth Outreach; Empowering BIPOC Youth: Pathways to Sustainable Design Futures, will be working with DRCC Youth Corps on a series of events to redesign Jack Block Park. We are looking for people interested in
… 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Klamath River Presentation
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CALL FOR REVIEWERS – Empowering BIPOC Youth: Pathways to Sustainable Design Futures
This school year the Landscape Architecture Department received a SEED Grant to work with the youth of surrounding communities of the Duwamish River on a landscape architecture mock studio. The project outlines that UWASLA Youth Outreach Coordinator and volunteers will
Landscape Architecture alumni establish a fund for equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts
During their time as students in Landscape Architecture, Rhiannon Neuville, Peter Samuels, and Jake Minden set out to establish a support fund in their department to help advance equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) efforts.
Launched in December 2020, the UW//LA …
Endowed Scholarship for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Landscape Architecture Update
Each year, the Department of Landscape Architecture graduates innovative practitioners and leaders who are ready to contribute to the change we seek. Our students study landscape architecture because they believe we can equitably and justly transform and shape our communities …