The Larger Landscape Conversation: Preservation's Present
Marisa Angell Brown, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Hakeem Adewumi & Charles Waldheim
Thursday, March 27, 2025
7 - 8:30 pm
Calderwood Hall
Thursday, March 27, 2025
7 - 8:30 pm
Calderwood Hall
Who decides which buildings and landscapes should be preserved as an element of cultural heritage? How might preservation practices be more socially inclusive, equitable, or democratic? As our cities and their existing buildings store significant proportions of embodied energy and carbon, how might we reconsider preservation practices in response to anthropogenic climate change?
Join us for stimulating conversations on the most pressing issues in the contemporary urban landscape. This conversation focuses on questions of historic preservation in the United States and beyond, sharing the contemporary roles and responsibilities of conservation, preservation, and experimental practices in the arts and design of the public realm. This conversation brings together Marisa Angell Brown, PhD, Executive Director of Providence Preservation Society (PPS); Jorge Otero-Pailos, architect, artist, and theorist specializing in experimental forms of preservation; and Hakeem Adewumi, artist and Co-Director of Marketing at the Theater Offensive. The Larger Landscape Conversation is hosted by Gardner Museum Ruettgers Curator of Landscape and Harvard Graduate School of Design Professor Charles Waldheim.
The Larger Landscape Conversation is a recurring series that brings together visionaries across disciplines to discuss the intersection of creativity, lived experience, and social justice.
Photo Credit: Jorge Otero-Pailos, The Ethics of Dust: Westminster Hall, 2016
Advanced tickets are required and include Museum admission. Adults $22, seniors $20, students $15, free for members and children 17 and under.
Seating in Calderwood Hall is first come, first served. Seating begins 45 minutes before the event. Late seating is not guaranteed.
To request accessible or wheelchair seating please call the box office at 617 278 5156.
Landscape and Horticulture public programs are supported by the Barbara E. Millen and Markley H. Boyer Endowment Fund.
The Artist-in-Residence program is supported in part by Lizbeth and George Krupp and directed by Pieranna Cavalchini, Tom and Lisa Blumenthal Curator of Contemporary Art. Funding is also provided for site-specific installations of new work on the Anne H. Fitzpatrick Façade on Evans Way.
The Museum receives operating support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which is supported by the state of Massachusetts and the National Endowment for the Arts.