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Ground Series

  • Event poster for GROUND Dialogues

  • Event poster for Material Ground

  • Event poster for Working Grounds

  • Event poster for Ancestral Grounds

  • Event poster for Archival Grounds

  • Event poster for Shaky Grounds

  • Event poster for Othered Grounds

  • Event poster for Broken Grounds

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Aroussiak Gabrielian, PI; Alison Hirsch, PI; Student team: Leslie Dinkin, Hannah Flynn, Jared McKnight
Supported by The Grant & Shaya Kirkpatrick Landscape Architecture + Urbanism Leadership Fund
2021

Ground: an interdisciplinary series on its manifestations and meanings

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While a primary medium for the landscape architects’ physical intervention, the ground has remained muted in discourse and action despite its many manifestations and capacities – to stir, to connect, to remember, as well as to expose and destabilize. This multifaceted explorative series aims to excavate the ground for these manifestations and meanings to better understand how we (humans) situate ourselves in the world and in relation to each other, to our pasts, and to the more-than-human – materials, systems, species. We explore its significance as a noun (the ground; a material), a verb (to ground; its agency), and an adjective (to be grounded; situated). In particular, the series will consider the ground as both a site of exploitation and extraction, as well as resistance. The series of conversations, exhibition and field happenings focused on questions of landscape and its varied grounds, integrates activists, designers, artists, scholars, scientists, environmentalists with diverse and intersectional identities.