Virtual Events
Cultural Landscape Practice in the National Park Service
September 25, 2024 | Event Recording
In the third and final Conversation in Cultural Landscape Preservation, Meg Frisbie and Molly Lester of the Urban Heritage Project speak with Jennifer Hanna and Julie McGilvray of the National Park Service about cultural landscape practice within NPS: how has it shifted over time? How does (and how should) cultural landscape thinking inform NPS work and preservation practices across multiple silos and scales? Finally, the panelists examine how partnerships between NPS and external practitioners can advance the practice of cultural landscape preservation.
Inclusion and Collaboration in Cultural Landscape Practice
May 28, 2024 | Event Recording
The second talk in our series features Brenda Williams, FASLA (Principal, Quinn Evans), Samantha Odegard (Upper Sioux Community Pezihutazizi Oyate, part of the Dakota Oyate [Nation]), and Jacob Torkelson, Senior Research Associate for the Urban Heritage Project. They delve into the collaborative and inclusive methods that they have used to cultivate and co-create cultural landscape preservation projects across the country. The panelists discuss the challenges and opportunities that robust engagement offers cultural landscape practice, highlighting several successful examples, notably in collaboration with Indigenous communities.
Paradoxes of Cultural Landscape Preservation
May 1, 2024 | Event Recording
Our May 1 conversation between UHP’s Randy Mason and scholar Laura Alice Watt explores her book, The Paradox of Preservation: Wilderness and Working Landscapes at Point Reyes National Seashore, to understand the potentials and limits of cultural landscape concepts and applications. This case raises questions about a range of preservation, design, and policy issues actively contested in managed landscapes everywhere. This conversation also refers to the following article by Laura Alice Watt: “The Return of Uncertainty: Public Lands in an Increasingly Unpredictable World.”