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LAEP Speaker Series: Joy Kuebler and Cheryl Salazar, Case Studies in Playful Placemaking
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About the Lecture Join us for an insightful session exploring how the innovative approach of playful placemaking can revolutionize community engagement and design processes. Using the successful Westminster Legacy Foundation project as a case study, this webinar will highlight the tangible and intangible benefits of play in fostering deeper connections, creativity, and trust within communities. Attendees will hear inspiring stories and discover how implementing playful placemaking techniques can enhance their own projects, creating vibrant and inclusive community spaces. Speaker Bio Joy Kuebler, FASLA, is an award-winning professional with more than 20 years’ experience with her work being recognized locally and nationally. Across her career, she has focused her work on the human experience in the landscape, integrating the outdoors and architecture to create unique and inspiring environments. Cheryl Salazar, MPA, CPRP, has over 17 years in municipal leadership including with the cities of Fontana and San Marcos, and Riverside County, California. She has managed operations, programs, marketing, training, budgeting, commissions, nonprofits and events over the years.
LAEP Speaker Series: Siqi Zhu, Planning as Strategic Design
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About the Lecture What is planning's relationship to design? In this lecture, I will argue for the necessity and efficacy of urban planning as a form of "strategic design", moving past traditional design's focus on discrete solutions -- be it a building or a landscape -- but borrowing traditional design's principles and methods to tackle systemic challenges like inequality, unaffordable housing, and climate change. Speaker Bio Siqi is an urban planner, technologist, and strategic designer who seamlessly integrates cities and technologies as dual focal points in his practice. With a strategic design mindset, he applies a creative combination of place-, community-, and technology-based solutions to complex, systemic urban challenges, such as climate change, infrastructural renewal, equitable development, and technological disruptions.
LAEP Speaker Series: Todd Mead, What is this Beautiful Place?
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Speaker Bio Originally from Wisconsin, Todd has lived and worked in Colorado and California for over forty years. Early life in a small town on the Wolf River introduced him to the experience of nature as a playground, as an escape, and as series of evolving places. Spurred by observations of human caused environmental degradation, Todd found landscape architecture as means of melding ecological reparation with art, while studying geology and native plant community restoration in the midwest. Drawn to wilder environments, Todd moved west immediately after undergraduate school, eventually joining Civitas and remaining there for more than twenty years. Emerging opportunities for change lead him to join Peter Walker Partners (PWP) in Berkeley, and later the Office of Cheryl Barton (O|CB) in San Francisco. Now with SCAPE in their San Francisco office, he applies decades of experience in a collaborative team-focused approach, blending critical design thinking with problem-solving and mentoring. His project experience varies in scale, complexity, and budget—including urban parks and gardens; educational, medical, and corporate campuses; waterfronts; and urban infill redevelopments.
LAEP Speaker Series: Heather Henry, The Right Place and the Right Home - The Right Solution
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About the Lecture When every turn of the channel, the page, or swipe of the screen shrieks about the breadth and depth of the housing crisis, it can be easy to insist that the solution simply lies in building more. Build it anywhere, at all cost. History tells us this cannot and does not work. As builders, developers, designers, and planners we have the power to make better decisions. And we all know with great power comes great responsibility (thanks, Spiderman). We’ll explore multiple case studies for how to make choices about the right places, right types of homes, and right creative programs to bring lasting housing solutions to bear in all types of communities.
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