Lecture Recap and Video: Kendra Hyson on Ensuring Equity and Building Community

Nov. 6, 2020
Who
Kendra Hyson '15 MLA, Founder, The Urban Studio, and Senior Planner, Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission
What
CAPLA Futures Council Keynote Lecture
When
October 12, 2020
Image

Kendra Hyson '15 MLA has followed a path to leadership not just in landscape architecture but also in the movement for social equity in built environment design—as both a founder of The Urban Studio and in her current role as a landscape architect and planner for the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission.

In this keynote lecture for the CAPLA Futures Council, Kendra discusses her experience as a landscape architecture and planner as a meaningful vehicle to social equity and environmental awareness. She describes her work as co-founder of The Urban Studio and the impact she has seen through engaging young people in communities of color.

Read her recent alumni profile.


Watch the Lecture

  

Subscribe to The Studio

Sign up for CAPLA's monthly e-newsletter to get the latest news and events, insights from faculty and leadership, profiles of students and alumni and more.

Subscribe Now

Latest CAPLA News, Projects and Profiles

Image
Kirk Dimond

Kirk Dimond honored with CELA TRIAD Award

Kirk Dimond has received the TRIAD Award from the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, recognizing his exceptional leadership and sustained service to the field. Over eight years with the organization, including five as treasurer, he strengthened its financial stability, advanced long-term planning and helped establish key scholarships and endowments.

Image
Aerial view of Ketchum Idaho

CAPLA faculty awarded grant to support planning in Idaho community

Associate Professors Philip Stoker and Shujuan Li have received a two-year grant to support community scenario planning and long-term water supply strategies in Blaine County, Idaho, a rapidly growing gateway region facing increasing development and water resource pressures. By combining urban growth modeling, water demand forecasting and spatial analysis, their work will help local leaders understand how different development patterns could impact future water availability.