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Tunisia Office of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
in collaboration with Ecole Nationale d’Architecture et d’Urbanisme, Tunis invite you to:
CRITICAL LANDSCAPES: HOW LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE CAN CHANGE THE WORLD AND HOW THE WORLD CAN CHANGE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
A lecture by: Gareth Doherty, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture,Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
This lecture will explore landscape architecture’s ethical and political power to shape the world. Gareth Doherty will open new possibilities for understanding the present and imaging the future through recent projects in the Critical Landscapes Design Lab at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. The D-Lab engages with diverse audiences and pressing socio-ecological issues across the postcolonial and Islamic worlds where landscape architecture can help imagine better futures. A central premise is that experiential knowledge—gained from the embodied engagement of landscape fieldwork—can help to revise how we understand and use western canons of landscape knowledge and offer us new possibilities for the design imagination.
About the Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Gareth Doherty ASLA, an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, is the Director of the GSD’s Master in Landscape Architecture program and the Critical Landscapes Design Lab. Doherty’s research and teaching explore human-centered issues alongside environmental and aesthetic concerns through a human ecology framework.
Doherty is currently doing fieldwork on landscape practices in an African context during his 2022–23 sabbatical. His forthcoming book, Landscape Fieldwork, explores the modes and potentials of an ethnographic approach to landscape architectural design and research and is under advanced contract with the University of Virginia Press. Doherty's previous book, Paradoxes of Green: Landscapes of a City-State (University of California Press, 2017), shows how a landscape fieldwork process can allow new concepts for the study of landscape to emerge. Doherty spent a year walking through Bahrain, learning local language, talking with people, and recording his encounters with green, as color and as an environmental movement. The paradox at the heart of the book is that the manifestation of the color green in arid urban environments is often in direct conflict with the practice of green from an environmental point of view.
Doherty has edited and co-edited several books, including Roberto Burle Marx Lectures: Landscape as Art and Urbanism (Lars Müller Publishers, 2018, reprinted 2020); Is Landscape...? Essays on the Identity of Landscape, edited with Charles Waldheim (Routledge, 2015, and China Architecture and Building Press, 2019) and Ecological Urbanism edited with Mohsen Mostafavi (Lars Müller Publishers, 2010, revised 2016), and translated into 5 languages.
The Critical Landscapes Design Lab that Doherty leads, has recently begun a new research project on the “Atlas for the Medina of Tunis: Landscape Architecture as a Catalyst for Urban Regeneration.” The D-Lab’s “Atlas for a City-Region: Imagining the Post-Brexit Landscapes of the Irish Northwest,” presented in the form of a “booxhibition,” won a Communications Award from the Boston Society of Landscape Architects in 2022.
For more information see: https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/person/gareth-doherty/ or http://criticallandscapes.com/
|| Friday, February 10th, 2023 || 2:00 to 4:00PM ||
Address: PETIT AMPHI, ENAU- ECOLE NATIONALE D’ARCHITECTURE ET D’URBANISME
RUE AL QODS, SITE ARCHEOLOGIQUE DE CARTHAGE
+216 71.729.197 / 263, enau@enau.rnu.tn
IN PERSON EVENT || ADMISSION FREE
