Title: White Green Black: Methodological Racisms in Climate-Adaptation Strategies | Symposium
Drawing on the College of Environmental Design’s history of social critique in design and planning, this day-long symposium brings a critical focus to cultural landscapes and living with difference and examines how methodologies underpinning landscape design and environmental planning can better attend to difference.
This symposium brings together contributors to the forthcoming volume White Green Black: Methodological Racisms in Climate-Adaptation Strategies for presentations and discussions focused on how the conceptual premise and methodologies used in contemporary greening strategies reproduce and further racial injustices.
In morning and afternoon panels, participants present case studies offering critical insight into how whiteness is insidiously reproduced — through the supposedly neutral and taken-for-granted methods of analysis and the forms of visualization landscape planners use in their everyday work. Each panels is followed by a roundtable discussion with UC Berkeley faculty members.
An opening lecture by Louise Mozingo tracks the historical legacy and pedagogical impacts of environmental planning methodologies, highlighting the College of Environmental Design’s contributions to critically engaging with social factors in what is largely a technocratic, apolitical approach to planning and design. In closing remarks, Richard Schein discusses the necessity of grappling with cultural landscapes and difference to find more just land use patterns and design interventions, using methodological interventions that attend to the expanse of whiteness in urban greening.
SCHEDULE
10 AM: Opening talk by Louise Mozingo (UC Berkeley)
Morning Panel
10:30 AM: Pol Fité Matamoros + Anna Livia Brand (UC Berkeley)
10:50 AM: Anna Bierbrauer (UW Madison)
11 AM: Eliza Breder (UC Berkeley)
11:30 AM: Rea Zaimi (Georgia State)
12–1 PM: Roundtable with Danielle Rivera + Clancy Wilmott (UC Berkeley)
Afternoon Panel
2:30 PM: Katherine Hankins and Khadija Benn (Georgia State)
2: 50 PM: Zannah Matson (CU Boulder)
3 PM: Rebecca Walker (UIUC)
3:30–4:30 PM: Roundtable with Zach Lamb + Meg Mills-Novoa (UC Berkeley)
4:30 PM: Closing talk by Richard Schein (University of Kentucky)
Refreshments to follow.
This symposium is organized by Anna Livia Brand and Pol Fité Matamoros and sponsored by the Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning.