CUDC Fall Lecture Series - Abigail Feldman, Surroundings Studio
17 September 2021 from noon-1pm
In person: CUDC, 1309 Euclid Avenue, Suite 200, Cleveland
Close your eyes for a moment and imagine being in a place where you can see rain storms one hundred miles away. Behind you dark clouds pile up against the tip of the Rocky Mountains. The high altitude light washes over the tips of Piñon trees dotted across the desert at sunset, and you wish you had chapstick. This is New Mexico, otherwise known as the Land of Enchantment. People have lived here for a long time and water is always on our minds.
This lecture offers the perspective of one landscape architect's work to link "old school" green infrastructure to contemporary design, to help innovate strategies for stormwater, and to root design in the vernacular land use of this region from acequias to zuni bowls.
Abigail Feldman is a landscape architect at Surroundings Studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Previously, she was the founder of Heavy Meadow, based in New Orleans, Louisiana. She launched and directed the Growing Home program for the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority. She helped transform over a 1,000 vacant lots into community gardens, farms, and yards with families from The Lower 9th Ward to Lakeview.
The Fall Lecture Series is made possible through the generous support of the College of Architecture and Environmental Design at Kent State University. For more information, please call 216.357.3434 or email cudc@kent.edu.
