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The Larger Landscape Conversation: Right of Assembly

Thursday, October 27, 2022
7 - 8:30 pm
CALDERWOOD HALL

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The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution promises its citizens the rights of assembly, free association, and to peaceably gather in public spaces. The past several years have witnessed the growth of social protest in public space across the political spectrum and the increasing contestation of the public realm for various forms of political action. What is the role of design in relation to these spaces of public protest?

Join us for a stimulating conversation with leading voices on the role of design and planning in relation to the public space as a venue for social protest movements and political speech. This program features Jeffrey Hou of the University of Washington, De Nichols, of YouTube, and Elaine Scarry of Harvard University, and is hosted by Charles Waldheim, the Gardner's Ruettgers Curator of Landscape and Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design.

About the Speakers

Jeffrey Hou is Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington where he directs the Urban Commons Lab. He is co-editor, with Sabine Knierbein, of City Unsilenced: Urban Resistance and Public Space in the Age of Shrinking Democracy.
De Nichols is an arts-based organizer, social impact strategist, and UX researcher who mobilizes changemakers to address social, civic, and racial justice issues. She is a co-organizer of the national Design as Protest collective, author of Art of Protest: Creating, Discovering, and Activating Art for Your Revolution, and Senior User Experience Researcher of Product Inclusion at YouTube.
Elaine Scarry is Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and General Theory of Value in the Department of English at Harvard University. She is author of On Beauty and Being Just; Rule of Law, Misrule of Men; and Thinking in an Emergency.
Charles Waldheim is the John E. Irving Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Ruettgers Curator of Landscape at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum where he convenes The Larger Landscape Conversation series.

Jeffrey Hou is Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington where he directs the Urban Commons Lab. He is co-editor, with Sabine Knierbein, of City Unsilenced: Urban Resistance and Public Space in the Age of Shrinking Democracy.

De Nichols is an arts-based organizer, social impact strategist, and UX researcher who mobilizes changemakers to address social, civic, and racial justice issues. She is a co-organizer of the national Design as Protest collective, author of Art of Protest: Creating, Discovering, and Activating Art for Your Revolution, and Senior User Experience Researcher of Product Inclusion at YouTube.

Elaine Scarry is Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and General Theory of Value in the Department of English at Harvard University. She is author of On Beauty and Being Just; Rule of Law, Misrule of Men; and Thinking in an Emergency.

Charles Waldheim is the Ruettgers Curator of Landscape at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design. He convenes the Larger Landscape Conversation series at the Gardner Museum.

Ticketing

Advanced tickets are required and include Museum admission. Adults $20, seniors $18, students $13, 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.

COVID-19 POLICY

The Gardner maintains its mask requirement for free and ticketed events in Calderwood Hall. Masks must be worn over the mouth and nose while in Calderwood Hall. Please contact the Box Office at 617 278 5156 for further information. 

Top image: Ally Schmaling, 2022

Landscape and Horticulture public programs are supported by the Barbara E. Millen and Markley H. Boyer Endowment Fund. These programs also are supported in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which is supported by the state of Massachusetts and the National Endowment for the Arts.