BY ZACH MORTICE
Images are the work of invited panel participants as noted. Collage courtesy UVA School of Architecture.
A UVA panel looks for ways landscape can lead the way in a city shaken by intolerance.
The Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12, 2017, welcomed white supremacy, resulted in the murder of a counterprotester, Heather Heyer, and changed that city and a great many residents and members of the University of Virginia (UVA) community. There were torch burning, Nazi symbols, and chants of ?Jews will not replace us? in the public spaces of what?s often painted as an idyllic Southern college town. That dichotomy will be the topic of a panel and presentation moderated by the UVA Architecture Assistant Professor Elgin Cleckley at UVA later this week. ?Landscape Perspectives for Future Publics? will gather eight landscape designers, academics, and writers to present their visions of Charlottesville?s future and to consider the landscape implications of race. The presentation will occur on April 20 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at UVA?s Campbell Hall. Presenters will offer rapid-fire imagery illustrating past/present/future triptychs for Charlottesville.
Participants will include:
—Azzurra Cox, Student ASLA, who?s studied the history and design traditions of neglected African American burial grounds
–Alexa Bush, ASLA, Detroit Senior City Planner
—Kofi Boone, ASLA, a landscape architecture professor at North Carolina State U...