National Endowment for the Humanities Awards Grant to the ASLA Fund for Educator Workshop
“Teaching Environmental Humanities through Landscape Architecture” will be held in 2025.
2024-08-27
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Today the National Endowment for the Humanities announced that it has awarded the Landmarks of American History and Culture award to the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Fund. The $190,000 competitive grant will be used for an environmental humanities workshop with 72 K-12 educators to be selected from around the country.
The design-centered workshops will provide an instructional framework that reflects the interdisciplinary research and work of environmental studies emerging within the humanities.
Expert instructors will guide lesson plans on Green Building, Climate Resiliency, Design Sustainability and Diversity-Equity-Inclusion-Justice. Close examinations of each theme will position educators and their students to learn both design and nature-based perspectives in the study of humanities.
The workshop will include guided site visits to culturally significant landscapes in the Washington D.C. region.
“The more people we invite into the profession of landscape architecture the stronger our communities will become,” said Torey Carter-Conneen, CEO of ASLA. “Landscape architecture is a unique blend of art and science. Workshops like this are how we provide a path for students who likely have no idea this could be a career path for them.”
Workshop instructors will include ASLA leaders, K-12 specialists and distinguished landscape architects.
Educators who are interested in the workshop should contact toolsforteachers@asla.org to receive more information.