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Streetscape Speaker Series - Gabriel Díaz Montemayor

15 May, online

Streetscape Speaker Series - Gabriel Díaz Montemayor

CPD points: 1.0

Thursday 15 May at 10am (NZT) 

Runoffs, Overflows, and Migrations in the US-Mexico Border Region: An Exploration of the Agency of Landscape Architecture.


This presentation explores the agency of landscape architecture to improve, remediate, and regenerate the shared communities, landscapes, and ecologies of the US-Mexico Border Region. To demonstrate this potential, the presentation is organized in two general projects, one for border communities in the shared watershed of the Colorado River, and the other for border communities in the shared watershed of the Rio Grande/Bravo. The presentation reflects on the role of top-down, bottom-up, and intersectional approaches to move forward a conciliatory and relational approach for this critical region of North America. This will be done in a combination of research, academic studio, speculative and professional design and planning projects. 

 

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Gabriel Díaz Montemayor, ASLA, is an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas. Previously, Gabriel was a faculty member at The University of Texas at Austin and at The Design School of Arizona State University. Gabriel’s research and teaching is concentrated in the socio-ecological reconciliation and regeneration of the borderlands shared between the United States and Mexico and in the advocacy and development of Latin American Specific Landscape Architectures. Gabriel’s research is published in academic journals such as the Journal of Urbanism, The Plan Journal, Sustainability, Land, Kerb, among others. Gabriel’s work is also published at professional journals such as Landscape Architecture Magazine, Arquine Magazine, Progressive Planning, and Landuum. Gabriel has guest lectured at multiple institutions in the USA: including Harvard’s GSD, City College New York, the University of Arizona, Rhode Island School of Design, and the University of Pennsylvania; and in Latin America: including the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, Universidad Piloto in Bogotá, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, and the Universidad Autónoma Gabriel Rene Moreno in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Gabriel holds a Master of Landscape Architecture degree from Auburn University (Alabama, USA) and a Bachelor of Architecture from the Instituto Superior de Arquitectura y Diseño and the Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua.

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