Join the Bruce for an educational and culturally artful afternoon featuring both a lecture and musical performance:
1:45 PM: Wine and Cheese Reception
2:00 PM: "How do cultural landscapes shape our shared public memory?"
A Lecture by Charles A. Birnbaum
3:15 PM: A musical performance, Living Space: Exploring the Intersection of Music & Cultural Landscapes
How do cultural landscapes shape our shared public memory?
Cultural landscapes are a legacy for everyone. These special sites reveal aspects of our country’s origins and development as well as our evolving relationships with the natural world. They provide scenic, economic, ecological, social, recreational, and educational opportunities helping communities to better understand themselves.
The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) was founded in 1998 by Charles A. Birnbaum with the goal of connecting people to places. TCLF educates and engages the public to make our shared landscape heritage more visible, identify its value, and empower its stewards.
Now, more than 25 years later TCLF continues to fulfill its mission, while also drawing upon a nationwide network of educators, graduate students, and interns to leverage local knowledge and skills, reflecting the diverse areas of expertise necessary to guide TCLF’s wide range of programming. This lecture will address the following: How do our collective planning, design and stewardship decisions affect how we assign value and manage change? Once a project is built, how do we measure success?
In an attempt to address these challenges, what role can – and should -- landscape architecture play as a collaborative participant in a national reckoning? How can the discipline prepare to develop the necessary awareness and tools to address erasure, memorials of the past, antiquated rigidity of historic government historical (and purposeful standards) -- and – in response, how can we commemorate the past in our shared public realm in our cities, parks, campuses (academic, cultural), and elsewhere – by amplifying community voices?
Finally, this lecture will examine the planning, design, advocacy and stewardship opportunities -- and constraints -- frequently encountered when dealing with managing change and our shared cultural landscape heritage.
