Panel Discussion
Earth Week: Designing For, By, and With: Indigenous Voices of the Land | Education, Institutions, and the Path Forward
"Designing For, By, and With: Indigenous Voices of the Land" is a four-month series of shared discussions, presentations, and reflections that seeks to emphasize deliberation, storytelling, and co-creation--core values of Indigenous design--and to propose discussion as a vital design tool. We are welcoming leaders of tribal nations, land stewardship movements, and varied design practices to speak about their work within Indigenous communities.
Earth Week: Designing For, By, and With: Indigenous Voices of the Land | Education, Institutions, and the Path Forward
"Designing For, By, and With: Indigenous Voices of the Land" is a four-month series of shared discussions, presentations, and reflections that seeks to emphasize deliberation, storytelling, and co-creation--core values of Indigenous design--and to propose discussion as a vital design tool. We are welcoming leaders of tribal nations, land stewardship movements, and varied design practices to speak about their work within Indigenous communities.
Kleinman Forum, Fisher Fine Arts Library
220 South 34th Street, Philadelphia PA
Free and open to the public
Native American Nations have long been excluded from formal design structures, yet their contributions to design theory, pedagogy, and practice are sophisticated, visionary, and deeply rooted in landscape and architecture. This discussion series targets this disconnect by bringing together four panels of Indigenous voices and their non-Native collaborators to shift how we approach design—advocating for processes that are for, by, and with Indigenous communities.
Through a 4-month series of shared discussions, presentations, and reflections, this initiative seeks to emphasize deliberation, storytelling, and co-creation—core values of Indigenous design—and proposes discussion as a vital design tool. Our discussions also aim to highlight the importance of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), reinforcing the criticality of Indigenous wisdom in creating sustainable, community-centered, and resilient landscapes.
This series is co-sponsored by the McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology, Cal Poly Pomona’s Department of Landscape Architecture, and Cal Poly Pomona’s Office of Tribal Relations.
Panel Four: Education, Institutions, and the Path Forward
Panelists:
Chris Cornelius, Professor and former Chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of New Mexico
Anjelica Gallegos, Director of the Indigenous Society of Architecture, Planning and Design (ISAPD)
Elsa MH Mäki, Assistant Director at the Buell Center, Columbia GSAPP
Moderator: Dagny Elise Carlsson, M.Arch & MLA '27, Weitzman School of Design