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JOCELYN  E  ZANZOT  Assistant  Professor  Landscape  Architecture  Program  School  of  Architecture,  Planning  and  Landscape  Architecture  College  of  Architecture,  Design  and  Construction  September  2014  

   

                                     

                                     

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STANDARD  BIOGRAPHICAL  DATA      Name:  Jocelyn  E.  Zanzot,  ASLA  Department:  Landscape  Architecture,  School  of  Architecture  College:  College  of  Architecture  Design  and  Construction  Present  Rank:  Assistant  Professor    Education:  University  of  Oregon,  Eugene,  Oregon  Master  of  Landscape  Architecture,  2003      University  of  Oregon,  Eugene,  Oregon  Bachelor  of  Landscape  Architecture,  2002    Reed  College,  Portland  Oregon  Bachelor  of  Art,  Studio  Arts,  1996    Boston  Museum  School,  Boston  Massachusetts    San  Francisco  Art  Institute,  San  Francisco,  California  Bachelor  of  Art  coursework  1992-­‐1994    

 PERCENT  BREAKDOWN  OF  ALLOCATION  OF  TIME         Teaching  and  Service               70%       Research,  Outreach,  Creative  Work         25%       Service           5%    

 My  teaching  load  has  comprised  one  design  studio  and  accompanying  field  studies  course,  four  seminars  in  the  graduate  program  of  landscape  architecture  and  one  in  environmental  design  for  a  total  of  18  credit  hours  per  academic  year.  In  addition  to  courses  taught  within  my  nine-­‐month  contract,  I  have  developed  and  taught  required  courses  every  summer.  Serving  on  graduate  thesis  committees  also  figures  into  the  teaching  load,  as  I  am  selected  by  between  two  and  five  graduate  students  per  year.      As  a  member  of  a  five  faculty  graduate  program,  I  have  dedicated  a  significant  amount  of  service  time  in  the  last  five  years  first  to  the  accreditation,  then  subsequent  redesign  of  our  curriculum.  I  am  the  faculty  advisor  to  the  student  American  Society  of  Landscape  Architecture,  ASLA  chapter.  Additionally  serve  on  the  School  of  Architecture,  Planning  and  Landscape  Architecture  Education  and  Technology  and  Lecture’s  committees  as  well  as  the  Faculty  Senate  and  the  Auburn  Africa  Initiative.      The  threads  that  connect  my  teaching,  research,  scholarship  and  outreach  can  be  described  as  related  dimensions  of  design  for  healthy  community  landscapes:  regenerative  practices,  civic  engagement,  and  landscape  imagination.  These  issues  connect  the  history  and  theory  of  landscape  architecture  in  the  public  realm,  with  service  learning  design  studios,  and  international  research  and  scholarship  in  the  related  fields  of  civic  health  and  healing  environments.  Published  work  has  entered  new  media  and  online  venues  to  reach  a  broader  audience.  

       

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 HONORS  AND  AWARDS  (see  B7)      National  Design  Award  

 Jocelyn  Zanzot,  Small  Hospital  Big  Idea  Winning  Proposal  with  Aditazz    Modern  Health  Care  Design  Award  Honorable  Mention,  September  2012      This  national  professional  award  recognizes  the  innovative  eco-­‐friendly  community-­‐based  hospitals  developed  by  team  Aditazz  for  Kaiser  Permanente’s  Small  Hospital  Big  Ideas  Competition.  Aditazz’s  proposal  was  selected  from  105  entries  as  Modern  Healthcare  Design  Awards  Honorable  Mention.  As  lead  landscape  architect,  I  developed  the  principles,  practices  and  plan  for  integral  biotic  and  civic  health  of  this  sustainable  small  hospital.  

Modern  Healthcare  is  a  weekly,  70,037-­‐circulation  business  publication  targeting  executives  in  the  healthcare  industry.  It  is  an  independent  American  publisher  of  national  and  regional  healthcare  news.  

The  publication  is  also  known  for  providing  statistical  rankings,  competitive  insight,  and  practical  information  on  topics  such  as  information  technology,  federal  and  state  legislation,  Medicare/Medicaid,  finance,  access  to  capital,  reimbursement,  investing,  supply  chain,  materials  management,  strategic  planning,  governance,  managed  care,  insurers,  EHRs,  patient  safety,  quality,  outpatient  care,  rural  health,  construction,  staffing,  legal  affairs  and  international  healthcare.    

International  Design  Competition    Jocelyn  Zanzot,  Consulting  Landscape  Architect  on  Winning  Team  Aditazz    International  “Small  Hospital  Big  Ideas  Competition”  Kaiser  Permanente  March  2012  

The  competition  generated  widespread  interest,  with  more  than  108  design  concepts  submitted  from  around  the  world.  After  a  rigorous  evaluation  process  that  narrowed  the  list  to  nine  semifinalists,  the  design  jury  selected  three  finalists  last  May.  

The  finalists  spent  the  next  eight  months  evolving  their  initial  concepts  into  modified  schematic  design  packages,  with  detailed  drawings,  cost  projections  and  thorough  analyses  to  support  their  ideas.  These  proposals  ran  to  several  hundred  pages.  The  finalists  assembled  teams  of  some  of  the  world's  top  minds  in  health  care  design,  technology  and  architecture,  who  later  previewed  their  designs  with  Kaiser  Permanente  caregivers  and  staff  for  reactions  and  insights.  The  finalists  submitted  their  final  plans  for  a  small  hospital  on  Jan.  31.  

Designs  were  judged  on  such  factors  as  efficiency,  including  sustainability  features;  innovation;  life-­‐cycle  costs,  incorporation  of  methods  to  improve  health  outcomes;  flexibility;  and  environment  of  care,  including  how  successfully  the  design  integrates  the  hospital  into  the  local  community.  (From  Buildings  3-­‐26-­‐12).  

This  first  prize  design  award  recognizes  the  team’s  innovative  approach  to  planning,  designing,  modeling,  manufacturing  and  sustaining  the  next  generation  of  smaller,  eco-­‐friendly,  community-­‐based  healthcare  facilities.  The  concept  is  to  create  a  vibrant  health-­‐centered  community  place  that  maximizes  the  agile  yet  convergent  capacities  of  technology  and  sustainability.  My  role  as  consulting  landscape  architect  included  site  analysis,  landscape  planning  and  design,  precedent  studies,  landscape  planting  plans  and  renewable  systems  design,  diagram  and  rendering  development  and  the  executive  site  design  summary.  

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 National  Competition  

 Jocelyn  Zanzot  and  Daniel  Neil,  Mobile  Studio,  Designing  Alabama's  Civic  Health,  National  Civic  Data  Challenge:  Honorable  Mention,  September  2012  

 This  national  award  recognizes  the  quality  of  the  video  submission  and  the  co-­‐creative  project  described  therein  organized  and  produced  50/50  by  Zanzot  and  Neil.  The  work  investigates  the  status  and  potential  of  Civic  Health  in  Macon  County,  Alabama  by  connecting  high  school  students,  college  students,  and  local  civic  leaders  through  art,  design,  and  civic  engagement.  These  creative  and  dialogic  processes  become  the  basis  for  substantial  civic  infrastructure  proposals.    

The  Civic  Data  Challenge  was  launched  by  National  Conference  on  Citizenship  in  April  2012  to  bring  new  eyes,  minds,  findings,  and  skill  sets  to  “civic  health”  data  ―  information  that  shows  how  citizens  are  participating  in  their  neighborhoods,  communities  and  democracy.  The  Challenge  asked  applicants  to  turn  the  raw  data  of  civic  health  into  beautiful,  useful  applications  and  visualizations,  enabling  communities  to  be  better  understood  and  encouraged  to  thrive.  The  winners  were  announced  at  the  67th  Annual  National  Conference  on  Citizenship.    

More  than  170  members  joined  the  Challenge  community,  and  the  team  of  a  dozen  judges  reviewed  entries  that  came  in  from  more  than  60  participants.  Winning  teams  spanned  the  country.  The  results  of  the  Challenge  have  been  covered  by  Fast  Company  in  their  post  Visualizing  Civic  Data  to  Make  the  Case  for  Civic  Health  and  Jake  Brewer,  Chief  Strategy  Officer  at  Fission  and  a  strong  advocate  for  open-­‐data,  speaks  highly  of  the  importance  of  civic  health  data  in  his  post,  NCoC’s  Civic  Data  Challenge:  So  Much  More  Than  Just  Numbers.  

Auburn  University  Award    Jocelyn  Zanzot,  Barry  Fleming,  Daniel  Neil,  “Mobile  Studio  on  Alabama's  Old  Federal  Creek  Road”.  Auburn  University  Creative  Scholarship  Juried  Faculty  Exhibition:    Best  in  Show,  April  2012    This  University-­‐wide  Creative  Scholarship  Juried  Faculty  Exhibition  invited  entries  from  across  the  Fine  and  Applied  Arts  programs.  The  Mobile  Studio’s  entry  synthesized  a  year-­‐long  research  and  creative  scholarship  project  focused  on  Alabama’s  Old  Federal  Road.  Working  with  students  and  faculty  between  CADC  and  CLA  with  an  interest  in  public  history  and  emerging  ecologies,  this  Mobile  Studio  produced  hundreds  of  drawings,  photographs,  prints  and  film  now  stored  in  a  public  catalogue  in  the  RBD  Library’s  Special  Collections  and  Archives.    

       Regional  Design  Competition       Jocelyn  Zanzot  and  Michael  Robinson,  “Sustainable  Traveling  Field  Studies”       Gold  Prize  $2500  Design  Competition  Award:  Moss  Rock  Art  Festival,       Hoover  Alabama  2009    

This  regional  design  competition  recognized  exceptionally  creative  and  provocative  design  work.  A  total  of  25  proposals  were  preselected  for  exhibition  and  jury.  Internationally  acclaimed  juror  Landscape  Architect  Tom  Leader  recognized  this  entry  with  the  intention  that  prize  money  would  inaugurate  this  sustainable  traveling  field  studies  initiative  along  route  66  from  Alabama  to  Los  Angeles.  The  concept  has  evolved  into  the  Mobile  Studio,  a  now  internationally  recognized  approach  to  landscape  studies  in  the  field.  

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 SCHOLARLY  CONTRIBUTIONS  AS:        

A.  TEACHING      

A1.     Courses  Taught      Spring  2014   Urban  Studies  I:  American  Urban  Landscape  (LAND  5340/6340)                                                            Credit  Hours  3  Enrollment:  10      

Readings  in  Landscape  Architecture  (ENV  2200-­‐001)       Credit  Hours  3  Enrollment  12  

 Outreach  Seminar  (LAND  7420-­‐001)    Credit  Hours  3  Enrollment  10  

 Fall  2013   Studio  II  Neighborhood:  (LAND  5230/6320)        

Credit  Hours  5  Enrollment:  10            

Field  Studies:  (LAND  5231/6321)           Credit  Hours  1  Enrollment:  10      

 Directed  Elective:  Landscape  Videography  (LAND  7900-­‐003)      Credit  Hours  3  Enrollment:  8  

 Summer  Term  2013:    

Urban  Studies  II:  Global  Urbanism  (LAND  7140)    Credit  Hours  3  Enrollment:  20    

                                                         Landscape  Modernism  (LAND  5140/6140)    Credit  Hours  3  Enrollment:  16    Directed  Elective:  Landscape  Food  Systems  (LAND  7000)  Credit  Hours  3  Enrollment  1  

   Spring  Term  2013:                                                              Urban  Studies  I:  American  Urban  Landscape  (LAND  5340/6340)                                                            Credit  Hours  3  Enrollment:  19      

Readings  in  Landscape  Architecture  (ENV  2200-­‐001)       Credit  Hours  3  Enrollment  12  

 Outreach  Seminar  (LAND  7420-­‐001)    Credit  Hours  3  Enrollment  11  

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 Fall  Term  2012:    

Studio  II  Schoolgrounds:  (LAND  5230/6320)        Credit  Hours  5  Enrollment:  17  

         Field  Studies:  (LAND  5231/6321)        

  Credit  Hours  1  Enrollment:  17        Directed  Elective:  Outreach  Seminar  (LAND  7900-­‐003)      Credit  Hours  3  Enrollment:  6    

Summer  2012:                                

                                                         Landscape  Modernism  (LAND  5140/6140)    Credit  Hours  3  Enrollment:  16  

   Global  Urbanism  (LAND  7140)            Credit  Hours  3  Enrollment:  18  

   Spring  Term  2012:                                                              Urban  Studies  1,  American  Urban  Landscape  (LAND  5340/6340)                                                            Credit  Hours  3  Enrollment:  8      

Readings  in  Landscape  Architecture  (ARCH  4900-­‐001)       Credit  Hours  3  Enrollment  6  

 Fall  Term  2011:    

Studio  II:  Beltline  (LAND  5230/6320)            Credit  Hours  5  Enrollment:  17  

         Studio  II  Field  Studies  (LAND  5231/6321)        

  Credit  Hours  1  Enrollment:  17        

Directed  Elective  Cordova  (LAND  7900-­‐003)      Credit  Hours  3  Enrollment:  6                                              

 Summer  Term  2011:                                                   Landscape  Modernism  (LAND  5140/6140)    

Credit  Hours  3  Enrollment:  16      

Global  Urbanism  (LAND  7140)            Credit  Hours  3  Enrollment:  18  

   

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Spring  Semester  2011:    Studio1V:  Directed  Studio,  co-­‐taught  w  Michael  Robinson  (LAND  7970)  Credit  Hours  3  Enrollment:  11    Urban  Studies  1,  American  Urban  Landscapes  (LAND  5430/  6430)    Credit  Hours:  3      Enrollment:  7      

 Readings  in  Landscape  Architecture  (LAND  4900)      Credit  Hour:  3      Enrollment:  8                        

       

A2.     Graduate  Thesis  Students  whose  work  has  been  completed     (*  students  won  AL  ASLA  awards  of  Merit  and  Honor)  

 Thesis  Committees  2012/2013      

   Seth  Ristow:  Design  for  Disobedience:  Lafitte  Corridor,  New  Orleans  LA  Sylvia  Barnett:  Landscape  as  Field:  Westside  Arts  District,  Atlanta  Georgia    Thesis  Committees  2010/2011    Stephen  Everett:  Affective  Urban  Flows  and  Multimodal  Transportation.  Atlanta,  GA  Will  Hargrove:  Designing  the  Infrastructure  of  Urban  Agriculture,  Birmingham  AL  Shelby  Newman:  Storm  water  Design  in  an  Emotional  Landscape,  Mobile  AL  Tyler  Smithson:  Topological  Disturbance  for  Regenerative  Urban  Design,  Chattanooga  TN  

  Ran  Ran:  Strategic  Insertions  to  Rekindle  Community,  Montgomery,  AL      

Thesis  Committees  2009/2010    *  Mathew  Biesecker-­‐  Emergent  Design  in  Landscape  Architecture,  Asheville  NC  Alex  Bonda:  The  Visible,  Yet  Invisible  Cultural  Network,  Asheville  NC  Clay  Craft:  Urban  Floodplain  Design:  Utilizing  the  Regenerative  Disturbance  of  Flooding  to  Create  Form  and  Habitat  with  the  Urban  Landscape,  Birmingham  AL  Brad  Murray:  Putting  the  Landscape  First:  A  Garden  Subdivision,  Auburn,  AL  Amanda  Simpson:  Urban  Interstices:  rethinking  the  built  environment,  Savannah,  GA  *  Tongfei  Zhou:  Industrial  Zone  as  Cultural  Ecotone,  Birmingham  AL  Thesis  Committees  2008/2009    Joao  Braz:  Linking  Fragmented  Landscapes,  Atlanta,  Georgia  *  O’Neal  Crawford:  Landscape  Intersections:  Lexington,  Kentucky  Lauren  Havard:  Sustainability  through  Urban  Agriculture,  Layfayette  Louisiana  Sean  Henderson:  Design  for  Indeterminacy,  Memphis  TN  Scott  Holder:  Connecting  Bioregionalism  and  Historic  Preservation  in  the  Sequatchee  Valley,  Dunlap  TN  Qing  Huang:  An  Eco-­‐cultural  Approach  to  Wetland  Design,  Bayou  LaFouche,  LA  Brad  Sprayberry:  Human  Ecology  and  the  Urban  Environment,  Memphis  TN    

 

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A3.     Graduate  Students  on  whose  committee  the  candidate  is  presently  serving  (decrease  in  number  of  thesis  students  reflects  programmatic  shift  to  not  require  thesis  work.)  

 A4.     Courses  and  Curricula  Developed    I  primarily  teach  seminars  and  design  studios.  My  courses  provide  students  within  the  MLA  program  an  understanding  of  the  modern  history  and  contemporary  theory  of  the  discipline  and  an  opportunity  to  build  their  landscape  architectural  skills  directly  in  the  field  through  approaches  that  advance  intertwined  biotic  and  civic  health.  The  following  courses  are  integral  to  our  program  establishing  a  knowledge  base  of  cultural  landscape  studies,  including  the  history,  theories  and  design  of  public  places.  Design  proposals  are  developed  through  hybrid  practices  of  landscape  drawing  and  image-­‐making  extended  through  my  own  international  research  and  creative  practices.  The  courses  draw  examples  from  multi-­‐media  sources  and  are  well  equipped  to  help  students  advance  graduate  level  critical  reading,  writing  and  oral  presentation  skills  as  a  matter  of  landscape  architectural  practice.  Many  of  the  courses  have  been  supported  with  grant  funding,  and  enhanced  through  my  own  research  and  scholarship.      

a.     American  Urban  Landscapes:    LAND  5430/6430      

This  course  addresses  the  evolution  of  the  American  landscape,  its  current  conditions,  and  prospects.  The  landscape  is  introduced  as  an  embodiment  of  American  culture.  The  themes  of  individualism  and  community,  mobility  and  change,  technology,  and  idealism  are  examined  in  the  context  of  the  contemporary  landscape.  The  landscape  of  the  American  Dream,  American  landscape  tastes,  and  spatial  history  and  the  role  of  design  within  participatory  democracy  are  discussed.  The  course  introduces  a  range  of  research  methods  for  critical  observation  and  analysis  of  contemporary  cities  and  places.  Critical  reading,  writing  and  communication  skills  are  cultivated.  While  this  course  has  been  a  long-­‐standing  component  of  the  Auburn  MLA  curriculum,  I  have  strengthened  its  approach  to  teaching  writing  skills  and  photographic  documentation  as  students  hone  their  ability  to  read,  debate  and  publish  their  critical  reflections  on  our  contemporary  American  landscapes.  In  the  last  several  years,  the  course  has  additionally  introduced  temporary  public  landscape  art  installations  and  the  students  have  responded  positively  to  this  opportunity  for  embodied  leaning  and  hands-­‐on  design  research.        b.   Global  Urbanism:    LAND  5430/6430    This  course  considers  the  major  global  drivers  of  urban  change  and  the  ways  in  which  landscape  ,  architectural  and  planning  practices  are  shifting  to  adapt  to  a  changing  planet.  Major  themes  include  rapid  urbanization  and  burgeoning  informal  settlements,  competing  needs  and  desires  for  public  space,  and  the  affects  of  climate  change  from  coastal  cities  to  the  inner  city.  Through  a  selection  of  readings  from  the  interdisciplinary  fields  of  urban  theory  and  cultural  geography  the  course  advances  students’  ability  to  identify,  relate  to  and  debate  theoretical  positions,  and  develop  their  own  working  propositions  regarding  21st  century  city-­‐making  and  the  design  of  resiliant  urban  environments.  Case  studies  of  landscape  architectural  practices  in  these  fluctuating  and  non-­‐formal  conditions  are  evaluated.  Students  advance  map  and  model-­‐making  skills  in  the  course  that  account  for  dynamic  conditions  and  advance  adaptive  design  proposals.  

 

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 c.     Landscape  Modernism:    LAND  5140/6140      This  new  course  examines  issues  in  the  modern  history  of  landscape  architecture  from  the  mid-­‐  19th  century  to  the  present  day.  It  seeks  to  elucidate  the  ways  that  the  practice  of  Landscape  Architecture:  its  design  methods,  representations,  programmatic  intentions  and  built  environments,  has  evolved  through  the  20th  century  and  has  been  shaped  by  the  larger  forces  of  modernity.  Through  the  study  of  seminal  texts  and  built  projects,  students  are  introduced  to  the  body  of  work  that  defines  landscape  architecture’s  responses  and  contributions  to  modernism.  The  ruptures  and  raptures  that  characterize  the  revolt  of  post-­‐modernism  are  also  introduced  and  opened  for  debate.  Modernism  is  thus  set  in  relief  and  re-­‐evaluated.  Through  the  course  students  gain  an  understanding  of  what  beyond  the  perfunctory  drives  the  contemporary  productions  of  landscape  architecture  and  how  such  theories  position  themselves  in  relation  to  discourses  in  Art,  Architecture,  Ecology  and  other  modern  movements.  Graphic  essays,  in-­‐class  presentations,  and  design  exercises  advance  the  learning  outcomes  of  the  course.      d.     Regenerative  Technologies:    LAND  7180  

 This  new  course  introduces  issues  and  theories  of  landscape  reclamation  including  emerging  regenerative  design  strategies  and  technologies  for  remediating  contaminated  lands  towards  community  revitalization.  The  course  presents  a  spectrum  of  regenerative  landscape-­‐based  technologies  such  as  phytoremediation,  founded  on  an  understanding  of  the  underlying  properties  and  behaviors  of  critical  environmental  pollutants  and  regulatory  pathways  through  the  requisite  research  and  analysis  of  soil  and  water-­‐born  toxicities  on  site.  Class  research  projects  are  creating  a  database  of  Alabama  brownfields  and  superfund  sites.  Case  studies  of  innovative  international  projects  inform  the  class  approach  to  a  local  design  research  project.    

 e.     Videography  for  Designers:    LAND  7970/ARCH  4960  

 This  course  was  initially  developed  with  the  support  of  the  Breeden  Grant  to  offer  a  combination  of  hands-­‐on  techniques-­‐  both  hardware  (camera)  and  software  (editing)  as  well  as  theoretical  platform  from  which  to  investigate  the  art  of  digital  videography  in  relation  to  design  of  the  built  environment.  Developed  in  collaboration  with  Professor  Mathew  Davis  at  the  University  of  Philadelphia,  the  first  course  offered  an  innovative  cross-­‐University  blog  to  facilitate  the  review  and  dissemination  of  work.  The  additional  Special  Program’s  grant  funded  a  University-­‐wide  Lecture  on  the  topic  of  The  Cinesthetic  Landscape  and  enriched  the  theoretical  basis  for  the  course.  The  course  is  enhanced  by  enrollment  of  students  across  the  disciplines  of  the  college,  building  a  vocabulary  and  methodology  for  the  use  of  film  towards  design.  The  award  of  a  $4000  Concessions  Board  grant  has  further  enabled  students  to  apply  this  coursework  to  advanced  independent  studies  with  a  dedicated  video-­‐editing  computer,  video  camera,  and  tripod.          f.     Design  Studio  II:  LAND  5300/6300  and  Field  Studies    This  studio  tackled  the  problems  and  potentials  of  the  public  school  ground.  Too  often  an  institutional  landscape  in  the  meanest  sense  of  the  word,  these  key  places  can  better  sustain  community  health  and  civic  life,  if  as  George  Washington  Carver  suggested  a  century  ago,  they  ground  education  in  Nature  Study  and  Gardening.  The  Studio  partnered  directly  with  three  schools  in  Lee,  Macon  and  Montgomery  counties  to  design  for  better  

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integrated  teaching,  learning  and  imaginative  play  out  of  doors.  The  work  was  reviewed  at  Dudley  Hall  by  a  distinguished  panel  of  faculty  and  local  practitioners,  and  then  exhibited  as  Re-­‐Imagining  Schoolgrounds  for  a  broader  audience  at  the  historic  Shiloh  Rosenwald  School  in  Notasulga.  School  administrators,  teachers,  students  and  civic  leaders  came  together  to  consider  the  resourceful  approaches  and  innovative  proposals  co-­‐created  with  children  at  D.C.  Wolfe    in  Shorter,  Notaulga  and  Fews  School  in  Montgomery.  A  forthcoming  book  on  the  future  of  sustainable  schools  in  Alabama  advanced  through  this  Mobile  Studio  will  help  guide  future  planning  and  design  decisions.        g.     Design  Studio  IV:  LAND  7130    The  Design  Dynamics  Studio  is  a  second-­‐year  graduate  studio.  This  studio  posits  the  question:  how  can  a  dynamic  ecosystem  inform  the  design  of  a  new  community?  What  new  resilient  cultural  and  environmental  practices  might  emerge  by  foregrounding  the  dynamic  living  systems  of  a  place?  Ecology,  like  creativity  becomes  a  model  for  being  in  the  world-­‐  in  relation  to  others,  and  a  mode  of  becoming  through  relations  and  encounters.  Design  is  approached  as  the  cultivation  of  new  possibilities  based  on  a  rigorous  study  of  existing  conditions,  the  modeling  of  open-­‐ended  processes,  the  calculated  insertion  of  systems  of  waste,  water,  energy,  and  the  construction  of  a  multiplicity  of  new  economies,  assemblages  and  situations.  Materiality  and  form  are  generated  in  adaptation  to  local  dynamics,  capacities  and  resources.  Emphasis  is  placed  on  the  succinct  and  compelling  communication  of  design  thinking,  and  the  translation  and  iteration  of  ideas  in  physical  form  through  time.  

   

h.     Thesis:  LAND  7900    

With  guidance,  students  investigate  the  potential  of  landscape  architecture  to  re-­‐imagine  the  civic  landscape:  to  enable  a  multiplicity  of  encounters  and  evolve  through  time.  Topics  have  included  revitalizing  mill  districts,  designing  urban  foodsheds,  regenerating  urban  creeks,  stitching  neighborhoods  together  through  innovative  community+  industry  +  arts  partnerships,  remediating  toxic  sites  towards  community  health,  and  revealing  hidden  or  invisible  histories  towards  new  civic  engagement.  In  advanced  research  seminars  that  accompany  thesis  I  teach  the  critical  and  creative  independent  development  of  design  methodologies  that  test  student’s  research  questions  and  activate  design  as  a  mode  of  learning  and  generating  new  knowledge.  Students  advance  thesis  work  through  a  mixed-­‐media  approach  including:  photography,  videography,  mapping,  drawing  and  modeling,  and  produce  self-­‐published  work  on  the  web  and  in  thesis  books.  

 i.     LA’Journal    

 In  this  course  students  design  and  publish  a  peer-­‐reviewed  journal  featuring  the  breadth  and  depth  of  design  research  advanced  within  Auburn’s  Master  of  Landscape  Architecture  program.  Each  student  contributes  a  submission  to  the  volume  advancing  their  own  skills  at  crafting,  editing  and  publishing  peer-­‐reviewed  scholarship  in  the  field.  Graphic  design  skills  are  advanced  as  the  journal  is  produced  in  both  hard  copy  and  on-­‐line.      

       

 

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j.     Outreach  Seminar:  x  Boundary  After  Emergencies    Cordova  Alabama,  40  minutes  west  of  Birmingham,  is  rebuilding  after  the  tornados  of  2010  and  2011  damaged  many  homes  and  decimated  their  historic  downtown.  Design,  planning  and  immediate  planting  of  the  new  downtown  community  area  is  critical  to  restoring  a  feeling  of  the  familiar,  and  to  seeding  the  next  generation  of  collective  living.  This  3  credit  inter-­‐disciplinary  directed  elective  is  organized  in  partnership  with  Professor  Cheryl  Morgan  and  The  Urban  Studio  to  plan  for  regeneration  with  community  members  and  city  leadership  from  Cordova,  FEMA  and  other  regional  partners.  Work  continues  with  Design  Build,  and  through  advanced  thesis  projects.  

 k.     Outreach  Seminar:  on  Wishes  and  Resistance  in  Landscape  Architecture    The  class  explores  and  advances  creative  and  critical  community-­‐based  approaches  to  the  design  of  our  shared  or  common  landscapes.  Outreach  begins  with  a  position  of  resistance  against  inequitable  access  to  civic  infrastructure  and  rights  to  the  city.  The  wish  is  to  activate  landscape  thinking  and  design  opportunities  that  expand  and  enhance  the  realms  of  eco-­‐civic  health,  imagination  and  delight  for  all  through  strategies  of  what  Dr.  Martin  Luther  King  described  as  creative  protest.  The  course  begins  with  a  literature  review  and  offers  students  the  challenge  and  opportunity  to  both  apply  theory  to  their  own  direct  studio  and/or  thesis  work  as  well  as  engage  short  local  community-­‐based  projects.      k.     Outreach  Seminar:  Rural  Regeneration,  Sustainable  Networks    This  course  builds  skills  in  design  outreach  or  community-­‐based  design.  Here  the  designer  is  more  than  a  site  builder,  rather  a  coordinator  between  diverse  agencies  on  behalf  of  an  often  underserved  community.  Having  a  critical  approach  to  this  work  is  fundamental  to  its  role  not  only  as  service  but  as  scholarship.  The  class  explores  and  advances  creative  and  critical  community-­‐based  approaches  to  the  design  of  our  shared  or  common  landscapes.  Outreach  here  begins  with  a  position  of  resistance  against  inequitable  access  to  civic  infrastructure,  or  rights  to  the  city.  The  wish  is  to  activate  landscape  thinking  and  design  opportunities  that  expand  and  enhance  health  and  delight  for  all.  Specifically  the  course  offers  opportunities  to  collaborate  with  community  partners  in  Macon  County  to  envision,  plan,  draft,  and  write  grants  for  community  landscape    projects.  Community  outreach  is  work  based  on  practices  of  listening  and  reciprocity.  This  course  is  both  productive  and  reflective  and  ask  students  at  times  to  work  as  team.  

                   

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A5.     Grants  Related  to  Teaching  (see  B8)  total  $56,826    

The  following  grants  support  and  enrich  my  teaching  of  contemporary  cultural  landscape  studies  with  emphasis  in  public  space,  civic  health,  design  and  diversity.  Funding  that  supports  field  work  and  design  development  on  interdisciplinary  projects  becomes  important  to  teaching  students  about  collaborative  community-­‐based  design  research  in  Outreach  Seminars  and  Studio  settings.      

    CIVIC  ENGAGEMENT    

Grant  Title:   Competitive  Outreach  Scholarship  Grant:  Macon  A  Moveable  Feast:  Food  Health  and  Celebration  in  Macon  County  

Date:   January  2013-­‐  January  2014  Participants:   Dr.  Michelle  Worosz  Rural  Sociology,  Dr.  Conner  Bailey  Rural  Sociology,  

Dr.  Norbert  Wilson  Ag.  Econ,  Dr.  Claire  Zizza,  Nutrition  Grant  Agency:     Auburn  University  Office  of  the  Vice  President  for  Outreach  Amount:     $5340    The  landscapes  that  comprise  food  systems  are  integral  to  future  sustainability  in  both  rural  and  urban  settings.  Increasingly  food  security  is  understood  as  a  need  to  be  addressed  not  only  on  a  site  by  site  basis  but  planned  and  designed  strategically  as  a  network.  This  grant  brought  Mobile  Studio  methodology  to  the  project  of  a  food  security  assessment  for  Macon  County,  a  very  distressed  neighboring  county.  In  addition  to  funding  a  graduate  research  assistant,  the  project  informed  both  in  classroom  teaching  and  learning  opportunities  as  well  as  the  development  of  peer-­‐reviewed  scholarship.      

 Grant  Title:   Design  Development  of  the  Shiloh  Community  Landscape    Date:   January  2011-­‐May  2011  Participants:   The  Shiloh  Community  Restoration  Foundation  &  Rural  Initiative  Project  Grant  Agency:     The  Deutche  Foundation  and  match  by  Auburn  University  Master  of  

Landscape  Architecture  Program  Amount:     $5682  

 This  grant  enabled  a  graduate  research  assistant  to  advance  and  compile  the  work  of  an  MLA  service-­‐learning  studio  for  community  use  to  leverage  future  site  and  program  development.  Products  included  a  master  plan  that  facilitates  visitor  access  to  this  National  Historic  Site  including  the  Shiloh  Missionary  Baptist  Church,  the  Shiloh-­‐Rosenwald  School  and  the  Shiloh  cemetery,  and  enables  a  new  generation  of  community  programs  from  Head  Start  activities  to  adult  health  and  education  classes.  The  work  makes  rooms  for  re-­‐telling  the  stories  of  the  past  and  honoring  the  members  of  the  community  who  died  in  the  Tuskegee  Syphilis  Study  within  the  landscape.      REGENERATIVE  PRACTICES    Grant  Title:   Ecosystem  Services  for  Community  Health:  A  Dynamic  Trans-­‐

disciplinary  Framework,  Turneffe  Atoll,  Belize    Date:       November  2009-­‐  December  2010  Participants:   Jocelyn  Zanzot  P.I.  in  partnership  with  Dr.  Birgit  Wining,  The  Oceanic  

Society,  Dr.  Nanette  Chadwick,  Marine  Biology,  Dr.  Mark  Dougherty,  Biosystems  Engineering,  Dr.  Wade  Morse,  Forestry  and  Wildlife  Science  

Grant  Agency:     CADC  Seed  Grant,  Auburn  University    Amount:     $10,000    

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 In  collaboration  with  the  Oceanic  Society  and  the  University  of  Belize’s  Environmental  Research  Institute  this  project  began  as  a  second  year  graduate  studio  and  with  the  support  of  a  SEED  grant  and  matching  funds  from  the  Oceanic  Society  resulted  in  a  published  report  and  scholarship.  

 LANDSCAPE  IMAGINATION  

 Grant  Title:     Summer  Workshop  Series:  Videography  for  Design  Date:     January  2009-­‐December  2010  Participants:     Jocelyn  Zanzot  P.I  with  Professor  Mathew  Davis  of  Temple  University  Grant  Agency:     Daniel  F.  Breeden  Endowed  Grant,  Auburn  University  Amount:     $2500  

 The  Breeden  Grant  funded  an  intensive  summer  workshop  series:  Digital  Videography  for  Designers  to  enhance  both  teaching  and  learning  capacity  in  the  School  of  Architecture  by  bringing  Professor  Mathew  Davis,  a  recognized  expert  in  the  field  to  Auburn  University.  Digital  video  is  an  important  tool  in  the  research  of  public  space  and  design  of  the  built  environment,  yet  training  had  not  offered  to  students.  The  funding  also  supported  a  graduate  student  in  the  construction  of  a  website  and  video  archive-­‐  enabling  virtual  dialogue  and  advancement  of  this  media  within  the  College  of  Architecture,  Design  and  Construction.  This  work  led  to  the  successful  $4000  Concessions  Board  Grant  to  start  the  Landscape  Imagination  Lab  for  advanced  video  productions  within  the  MLA  program.    

   

A6.   Publications  pertaining  to  teaching  (see  B1,  2,  3)    Book  Chapter    

Zanzot,  Jocelyn  and  MacCannell,  Dean  (50/50  authorship,  2013,  forthcoming)    “Design’s  Diaspora”  chapter,  book  edited  by  Robert  Hewitt,  Associate  Professor  of  Landscape  Architecture  at  Clemson,  for  the  Landscape  Architecture  Foundation.      Over  the  past  15  years,  the  number  of  people  crossing  borders  in  search  of  a  better  life  has  been  rising  steadily.  At  the  dawn  of  the  21st  Century,  one  in  every  35  people  is  an  international  migrant.  Design  processes  as  well  as  designed  places  are  challenged  to  respond  to  difference  and  inequity  on  the  one  hand,  hybridizing  identities  and  global  citizenry  and  technology  on  the  other.  Urban  issues  such  as  access  and  equity,  agency  and  representation,  and  potentially  conflicting  needs  and  desires  for  public  space  are  critical  to  the  future  of  sustainable  and  resilient  cities.  This  chapter  explores  a  range  of  responses  from  an  international  selection  of  notable  artists,  designer  and  critics  advancing  hybrid  practices  and  cross-­‐boundary  enrichment.        This  work,  initiated  in  collaboration  with  Dean  MacCannell  at  University  of  California,  Davis  is  part  of  the  Landscape  Architecture  Foundation’s  Landscape  Future’s  Initiative.  This  initiative  is  the  development  of  a  platform  for  practice  in  light  of  the  21st  century  drivers  of  global  urban  change.  The  2007  symposium  at  Davis,  one  of  6  held  across  the  country,  sought  to  explore  the  implications  for  landscape  designers,  architects,  artists  and  planners  of  changing  urban  demographics  related  to  both  temporary  and  permanent  migration.  We  consider  

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the  future  of  public  space  that  is  increasingly  the  meeting  ground  of  peoples  from  every  other  place  on  earth.      

   

Peer-­‐Reviewed  Journal  Articles  (see  C2)            

 2013   Zanzot  J.  and  Neil,  D,  Sams,  B.  “Common  Ground  Alabama”,    (Zanzot  70%),       PUBLIC:  A  Journal  of  Imagining  America    

PUBLIC  is  a  peer-­‐reviewed  multimedia  e-­‐journal  for  projects,  pedagogies,  resources  and  ideas  incorporating  humanities,  arts,  and  design  in  public  life.  Acceptance  into  the  inaugural  addition  indicates  an  alignment  of  Zanzot’s  work  through  the  Mobile  Studio’s  with  the  critical  and  creative  intentions  of  Imagining  America  and  points  to  the  work’s  quality  and  competence  as  a  teaching/learning  video  production  for  diverse  audiences.  

Imagining  America  is  a  consortium  of  90  colleges  and  universities,  and  their  partners,  IA  emphasizes  the  possibilities  of  humanities,  arts,  and  design  in  knowledge-­‐generating  initiatives.  Readership  includes  both  academics  and  community  leaders.  

  This  video  explores  four  years  of  emerging  pedagogy  and  methodology  for  community-­‐based  art  and  design  practice.  Mobile  Studio  is  an  inter-­‐media,  co-­‐creative  collective  actively  representing,  reinterpreting,  and  reimagining  Alabama  landscapes  in  the  field.  Through  this  process  the  studio  advances  the  delicate  work  of  creating  and  sustaining  reciprocal  partnerships  between  academic  and  community  partners,  and  civic  and  political  leaders.  Findings  suggest  that  a  commitment  to  lifelong  learning  is  integral  to  creating  the  scaffolding  necessary  to  engage  the  arts  and  politics  of  place-­‐making.  Common  Ground  in  Alabama  reports  on  the  long-­‐term  goals  and  missions  of  Mobile  Studio  through  the  media  of  film  to  traverse  time  and  reveal  diverse  perspectives.        

 

International  Peer-­‐Reviewed  Conference  Proceedings    2013   Zanzot,  J.  “From  the  American  South  to  South  Africa,  Re-­‐Activating  Sites  of  Rural  Resistance”,  

International  Federation  of  Landscape  Architecture  (IFLA),  Capetown,  South  Africa.    IFLA  is  the  professional  body  representing  Landscape  Architects  worldwide.  Its  purpose  is  to  coordinate  the  activities  of  member  associations  when  dealing  with  global  issues,  and  to  ensure  that  the  profession  of  landscape  architecture  continues  to  prosper  as  it  continues  to  affect  the  design  and  management  of  our  environment.  This  publication  is  the  outcome  of  the  2012  Conference:  Landscape  and  Values,  hosted  in  Capetown  South  Africa.      The  double-­‐blind  peer-­‐reviewed  article  makes  a  bridge  between  contemporary  South  African  Landscape  design  and  design  in  Alabama  and  the  greater  Southern  United  States  in  relation  to  histories  of  rural  resistance  through  times  of  segregation  and  civil  rights  protest.  

 2010   Zanzot,  J.  “The  Cinesthetic  Landscape;  A  Critical  Realm  of  Design  Research”  Landscape  

Legacy:  Landscape  Architecture  and  Planning  Between  Art  and  Science,  proceedings  of  the  CELA/ISOMUL  Conference,  Maastricht,  Netherlands.                    This  international  conference  combined  CELA  with  ISOMUL  the  International  Study  Group  on  the  Multiple  Use  of  Land,  in  the  Netherlands.  Abstract  and  paper  were  accepted  and  

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published  in  the  conference  proceedings.  The  Conference  theme  was  Landscape  Legacy  Landscape  Architecture  and  Planning  between  Art  and  Science.    The  paper  considers  the  historic  and  future  role  of  movies  (videography  +  filmic  studies)  within  Landscape  Architecture,  as  a  medium  most  suited  for  handling  movement,  time  and  experiential  quality  in  the  built  environment.  An  emerging  theoretical  platform,  pedagogy,  and  series  of  new  works  were  presented  for  evaluation.  The  research  is  advanced  by  design  in  courses  and  grant-­‐funded  work  within  the  MLA  Program  at  Auburn.    

 2011   Zanzot,  J.  “Extraordinary  Vessels:  Urban  Landscape  Inversions  and  New  Civic  Imaginaries  

presented  at  ARCHI-­‐AFRICA    2010,  Event  +  City,  Johannesburg,  South  Africa  (See  B3  for  details)  

   

National  Peer-­‐Reviewed  Conference  Proceedings    2014   “Landscapes  in  Motion,  Birmingham  Intersections”,  CELA  Exhibition  Peer-­‐Reviewed,  National  

Conference,  Mobile  Studio,  Zanzot,  Neil  .  March  2014    2011   Zanzot,  J.  “Design  Research  and  the  Rural  LANDSCAPE  Studio:  Learning  from  Shiloh”,  

CELA’s  Erasing  Boundaries  Symposium,  peer-­‐reviewed  abstract  accepted  and  published  in  conference  proceedings.  

    “Erasing  Boundaries  represents  the  work  of  a  consortium  of  educators,  students  and  

community  partners  from  the  disciplines  of  architecture,  landscape  architecture  and  urban  planning  interested  in  furthering  the  pedagogy  of  service-­‐learning,  and  community  engaged  teaching/research.”  

    The  paper  documents  and  evaluates  design  and  planning  proposals  developed  in  

collaboration  with  the  Shiloh  Community  Restoration  Foundation  at  their  4-­‐acre  national  historic  site  in  Macon  County  Alabama.  The  paper  reflects  on  the  evolution  of  a  service  learning  studio  through  a  small  grant  to  fund  a  graduate  research  assistant  and  beyond.  

           

2010   Zanzot,  J.  “Writing  Architecture:  To  Unsay  the  World  and  Imagine  it  Anew”  Made:  Design  Education  and  the  Art  of  Making,  Proceedings  of  National  Conference  on  the  Beginning  Design  Student,  2010,  (abstract  acceptance  33%,  refereed  proceedings)  

   The  National  Conference  on  the  Beginning  Design  Student  (NCBDS)  is  a  national  peer  review  scholarly  gathering  dedicated  to  the  study  and  practice  of  beginning  design  education.  For  over  25  years,  the  NCBDS  has  provided  a  forum  for  design  educators  to  present  papers  and  projects  and  hold  discussions  related  to  introductory  design  issues.    The  paper  establishes  a    pedagogy  of  teaching  writing  in  the  fields  of  Landscape  Architecture  and  the  allied  arts  of  place-­‐making  through  the  theoretical  framework  that  writing  must  be  at  once  critical  and  creative.  The  paper  develops  a  trilectic  approach  that  integrates  historic  research  with  first-­‐hand  observation  with  the  perspectives/knowledges  of  others.  This  is  a  platform  for  teaching  diversity  within  the  curriculum:  advanced  design  research  and  writing  for  landscape  architects.      

 

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2009   Zanzot,  J.  “Teaching  Abundance  in  the  Context  of  Scarcity”  paper  presented  at  CELA,  Council  of  Educators  in  Landscape  Architecture,  January  2009,  abstract  published  in  the  conference  proceedings.  

    This  presentation  was  given  at  the  Council  of  Educators  in  Landscape  Architecture’s  

(CELA)  National  conference:  Teaching  +  Learning  Landscape,  Sustainability  session  in  Tucson  Arizona.  Acceptance  rates  were  30%.  

 The  paper  explores  a  challenge  regarding  the  teaching  of  sustainable  design,  a  practice  which  requires  an  inclusive,  participatory  model  of  design  as  well  as  designed  spaces  that  support  vital  civic  life.  The  enduring  relationship  between  post  Apartheid  South  Africa  and  the  legacy  of  the  Jim  Crow  south  is  considered  within  the  context  of  studio  teaching.    The  classroom  and  the  studio  become  sites  and  venues  of  exchange,  catalysts  of  dialogue  across  difference,  and  potential  change  by  design.  And  while  this  work  requires  boundary  crossing  that  might  be  critical  to  the  future  of  the  profession,  it  is  often  glossed  over  in  the  charrette  model  if  introduced  at  all  during  a  three-­‐year  degree  program.  This  paper  focuses  on  the  engagement  of  students  in  the  study  and  design  of  public  space  and  the  role  of  democratic  meeting  grounds  in  to  which  all  enter  on  equal  footing,  within  the  larger  context  of  advancing  sustainability.    

     2009   Zanzot,  J.  “Eidetic  Alabama:  Film  and  the  Meander”,  presented  at  CELA,  paper  presented  

at  CELA,  abstract  published  in  the  conference  proceedings.    

This  presentation  was  given  at  the  Council  of  Educators  in  Landscape  Architecture’s  (CELA)  National  conference:  Teaching  +  Learning  Landscape,  Communication  and  Visualization  session,  in  Tucson  Arizona  February  2009.      No  media  better  lends  itself  to  change  over  time,  to  documentation  of  landscape  than  film.  Film  has  the  unique  ability  to  enter,  move  through,  and  record  the  very  breath  and  spirit  of  place.  Additionally  through  interview,  thoughtful  editing,  and  soundtrack,  film  can  investigate,  and  imagine  landscape  narrative  to  convey  and  visualize  evolving  relationships  of  people  to  place.      This  paper  focuses  on  the  use  of  film  and  videography  in  landscape  design  for  visualization  and  communication.  Case  studies  from  Auburn’s  MLA  program  filmic  productions  consider  collaborations  with  local  film  artists  and  instructors,  as  well  as  other  programs  in  art  and  public  history.  The  approaches  are  evaluated  to  determine  both  the  potentials  and  problems  of  using  film  to  support  landscape  architecture  design  research,  the  future  and    quality  of  the  practice.      

Papers  and  Invited  Lectures    Invited  Lectures    2013  FALL,  invited  lecture  "Mobile  Studio,  On  the  Road  and  in  the  Field”  invited  as  first  international  lecturer  of  the  annual  Lecture  series  at  Birmingham  City  University,  Institute  of  Art  and  Design,  Birmingham  England.      

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 2013  FALL,  invited  scholar  "South  +  African  Dialogues:  Activating  Civic  Engagement  by  Design”    Emerging  Scholars  Program,  Troy  University  Rosa  Parks  Museum    What  is  the  role  of  civil  society  in  meeting  the  challenges  of  minority-­‐majority  tension  in  the  modern  nation?    The  Civil  Rights  Movement  of  the  United  States  and  the  Anti-­‐apartheid  movement  in  South  Africa  have  forever  changed  our  national  and  global  sensibility  and  the  places  where  we  search  for  truth.    Annett  du  Plessis’  presentations,  with  introductions  and  discussions  guided  by  local  scholars  with  expertise  in  historical/cultural  South  African  events,  provide  an  opportunity  for  public  intellectual  exchanges  on  how  the  past  is  studied  and  presented  using  the  lens  of  public  memorials  (Museums)  and  the  history  they  impart.  Using  the  specific  isolationist  practices  of  segregation  (United  States)  and  apartheid  (South  Africa)  of  the  two  countries,  special  emphasis  will  be  placed  on  the  world  said  practices  create,  race  and  class  perspectives  and  the  need  for  effective  communication  among  diverse  audiences.    The  content  of  the  lecture/discussions  will  use  language,  history,  art,  and  popular  culture  to  cross  the  historical  and  cultures  landscapes.  

These  lecture/discussions  will  challenge  participants  to  think  about:  stereotypes;  the  position  of  privilege  to  secure  the  stability  nations;  societal  rules  in  the  past  and  how  they  have  changed;  why  rights  matter;  the  importance  of  intergenerational  dialogue  and  the  question  of  national  identity.  

Scholars  will  introduce  each  program  and  guide  the  discussions  that  follow.    They  will  also  be  responsible  for  reading  list  and  any  information  disseminated  to  the  audience.    They  will  be  available  for  interviews  and  quotes  for  the  media.    

 NATIONAL  GARDEN  CLUB  LECTURES  2009-­‐2013    2013     “Landscape  as  a  Learning  Experience”  and  “Community  Landscape  Management”    

 National  Garden  Clubs  Inc.,  Landscape  Design  Study  Program,  Alabama  Garden  Club    2012    "Development  of  Landscape  Architecture  1940  to  the  Present",    

National  Garden  Clubs  Inc.,  Landscape  Design  Study  Program,  Alabama  Garden  Club    2012   "  Contemporary  Landscape  Architecture",  National  Garden  Clubs  Inc.,  Landscape  Design  

Study  Program,  Alabama  Garden  Club,  October      

2011   "Community  Landscape  Management",  National  Garden  Clubs  Inc.,  Landscape  Design  Study  Program,  Alabama  Garden  Club,  October      

2011   "  Landscape  as  A  Learning  Experience  ",  National  Garden  Clubs  Inc.,  Landscape  Design  Study  Program,  Alabama  Garden  Club,  October,                          

2010     “Maintenance  and  Design  on  the  Land:  Regional  Expression”,  National  Garden  Clubs  Inc.,  Landscape  Design  Course  Georgia  Garden  Club,  La  Grange  Chapter  (October  9,  2010,  duration  2  hours)  

 2010     Alabama  Garden  Club  May,  Landscape  Design  Course  Lectures:  Community  Landscape  

Management,  and  Landscape  as  A  Learning  Experience,  (May  4th  2010,  duration  2  hours)    2009    Alabama  Garden  Club  October,  Landscape  Design  Course  Lectures:  Design  on  the  Land:  

Regional  Expression,  and  Development  of  Landscape  Architecture  from  1840-­‐1940    (October  15,  2009,  duration  2  hrs)      

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A7.     Other  Contributions  to  Teaching  (see  D2)    

a.     Curriculum  Review:  Since  successful  re-­‐accreditation,  the  MLA  faculty  has  focused  on  the  development  of  a  new  curriculum  reflective  of  a  new  vision  for  the  program.  This  is  a  matter  of  re-­‐crafting  the  core  mission  statement,  goals  and  objectives  and  identifying  the  requisite  coursework  and  educational  approaches/opportunities  to  advance  these  intentions.  I  have  been  responsible  for  a  comparative  study  of  curricular  design  of  the  top  programs  across  the  country,  and  am  playing  an  integral  role  in  the  visioning,  and  development  of  the  new  curriculum.  As  the  new  program  is  inaugurated,  and  test-­‐driven  by  the  first  cohort  of  students,  I  continue  to  assist  with  the  scheduling  of  courses  and  end  of  term  assessments  and  the  administering  of  student  awards.  

 b.     Co-­‐Organizer  of  the  MLA  Accreditation  Exhibit:    

This  formidable  task  of  accounting  for  the  last  six  years  of  Auburn’s  MLA  program  in  a  four-­‐floor  exhibit  entailed  a  framing  of  the  program’s  philosophy,  methodology,  learning  outcomes,  assessment  mechanisms,  and  future  trajectory  that  continues  to  inform  curriculum  review.  The  collection  and  re-­‐presentation  of  student  work  also  proved  useful  for  recruitment  and  dialogue  across  the  CADC  disciplines.  The  accreditation  review  was  a  success  resulting  in  accreditation  of  the  program  for  another  six  years  with  minor  recommendations  for  improvement.  

 c.     Graduate  Research  Assistants  and  Student  Work  Hours  

Bringing  in  funding  that  supports  graduate  research  positions  is  very  important  to  both  student  experience  within  the  program  and  the  competitiveness  of  the  program  as  a  whole.  In  addition  to  supervising  graduate  research  assistants  that  are  funded  by  the  School  of  Architecture  I  have  generated  additional  funds  through  grants  to  support  an  increasing  number  of  assistantships.    *  Indicates  grant-­‐funded  positions.  

   2013-­‐  2014  

• *  Yubei  Yu:  Food  Systems  Macon  County  • Elizabeth  Matthews,  Dakota  Neighborhood  

 2012-­‐  2013  

• Marco  Giliberti:  Journal  Publications  • *  Felipe  Palacios:  Schoolyards  Publication  • Christina  Argo:  MLA  Journal  Publication  • Michael  Kuras:  MLA  Program  Advancement  

 2011-­‐  2012  

• *  Jingjing  Lin:  Healing  Garden  Design/Build      • Linda  Qing  Lin    :  Community  and  Civic  Health  • Yimiao  Yu:  Mobile  Studio:  Old  Federal  Road    • *  Shelby  Newman:  Small  Hospital  Big  Ideas  Competition  

 2010-­‐  2011  

• *  Jonathan  Lewis,  Old  Federal  Road  Initiative,  Design  Research  of  a  Vanishing  Landscape,  archival  research  and  map  making.  

• *  Shelby  Newman:  Ecosystems  Services  for  Community  Health,  Dynamic  Systems  Design,  for  the  Oceanic  Society,  Blackbird  

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Caye,  Belize,  production  of  publication  and  development  of  website  

 • *  Qingxin  Yu:  Advancing  work  on  the  Shiloh  Community  

Restoration  Foundation  Landscape  Design  Plan.    

• *  Chen  Long:  Advancing  work  on  the  Shiloh  Community  Restoration  Foundation  Landscape  Design  Plan.  

 • Jiayang  Xie:  CEBE,  Civic  Engagement  for  the  Built  Environment,  

design  research  and  planting  plan  for  the  East  Alabama  Mental  Health  Garden.  

 • Junyi  Li:  Advancing  American  Urban  Landscapes  through  image  

scanning  for  lectures.  Exhibit  production  and  competition  design.    

   d.     SoAPLA  Technology  and  Education  Committee  

As  a  member  of  this  committee  I  advise  the  School  Head  and  IT  director  on  annual  software  and  hardware  purchases,  and  decisions  that  reflect  the  goals  and  objectives  of  the  various  programs  within  the  school.  I  represent  the  MLA  program’s  needs  and  desires  for  educational  technology  with  an  eye  for  both  the  standards  of  practice  and  advancements  in  the  field.    

 e.     SoAPLA  Lectures  Committee  

As  a  member  of  this  committee  I  have  been  responsible  for  bringing  one  Landscape  Architect  per  year  to  lecture  to  the  School  of  Architecture  lecture  series.  In  2009  Kenny  Helphand  from  the  University  of  Oregon  presented  the  lecture  Defiant  Gardens.  In  2010  Trisha  Martin  of  WE  Design  in  New  York  City  presented  Community  Entanglement:  A  Philosophy  and  Method  for  Design.  And  in  the  spring  of  2011,  Tom  Leader  of  Tom  Leader  Studio  in  Berkeley  shared  his  recent  work  in  Birmingham’s  Railroad  Park.  In  2012  Charles  Waldheim,  Chair  of  the  Landscape  Architecture  Program  at  Harvard  lectured  on  Landscape  Urbanism.  The  2013  lecture  will  bring  Kathryn  Moore  to  the  CADC  from  the  Birmingham  Institute  of  Art  and  Design,  Birmingham  City,  England.  Her  talk  is  entitled  Design:  Philosophy  and  Theory  into  Practice.    

 f.     Invited  External  Juries  

 Invited  Juror  for  the  Student  Design  Competition,  International  Federation  of  Landscape  Architects  IFLA,  Capetown,  South  Africa  September  2012                          

         

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A8.   Statement  of  Teaching  Philosophy    Contemporary  landscape  architecture  requires  critical  distance  from,  and  on-­‐the  ground  engagement  with  the  rapidly  changing  conditions  of  the  built  environment.  Vital  public  landscapes  are  constructed  with  increasingly  diverse  constituencies  and  in  relation  to  dynamic  complex  systems.  I  am  interested  in  landscape  architecture  as  an  agent  of  change,  not  only  in  human  experience  of  the  built  environment,  but  in  the  way  we  think  of  our  relation  to  each  other  and  the  planet.  This  is  urgent  practice  in  light  of  the  pressures  of  21st  century  urbanism  and  climate  change,  and  requires  critical  and  creative  practice.  For  this  reason  I  teach  students  to  design  for  landscape  sustainability,  resilience  and  health  and  contribute  to  an  emerging  scholarship  in  landscape  architecture  design  research.    I  typically  teach  6  seminars/year  and  1  or  2  studios.  In  Studio  Two,  I  introduce  site  and  neighborhood  scale  design  problems  that  asks  students  to  evaluate  and  regenerate  civic  infrastructure  and  mixed  meeting  grounds.  Techniques  for  working  reciprocally  with  community  members  are  introduced.  Experimental  and  evaluative  drawings  advance  design  research  to  develop  proposals  that  simultaneously  remember,  resist,  and  re-­‐imagine  future  opportunities.  A  care  for  the  crafts  of  construction  and  presentation  is  cultivated.  I  introduce  and  advance  a  variety  of  approaches  to  explore  and  assess  scenarios  of  landscape  transformation.    Auburn’s  MLA  program  teaches  hybrid  drawings  that  fluidly  combine  analogue  and  digital  techniques  and  bring  forward  the  dynamic  and  intangible  qualities  of  landscapes.  In  all  of  my  courses,  studio  and  seminar  alike,  I  teach  the  history  and  contemporary  theory  of  the  integral  relationship  between  landscape  and  image,  helping  students  refine  their  skills  to  make  images  that  pose  significant  questions  and  offer  vital  propositions.  Images  are  further  advanced  in  relation  to  text;  whether  with  bold  headlines,  or  poignant  captions,  rough  notes  or  articulate  essays.  Together  the  practice  of  intentional  image  making  and  (re)storying,  both  critical  and  creative  becomes  the  foundational  media  of  landscape  architecture.    Field  studies  and  hands-­‐on  learning  opportunities  are  also  key  to  my  approach  to  engaging  the  landscape  and  making  the  work  relevant.  I  have  traveled  with  students  to  Portland  Oregon,  to  explore  the  theme  of  integrating  habitats  through  green  infrastructure  and  new  configurations  of  eco-­‐urbanism.  I  organized  a  studio  in  Belize  that  challenges  students  to  analyze  and  design  the  resourcefully  integrative  living  systems  required  for  resilient  inhabitation  of  a  hurricane  prone  landscape.  The  work  in  Belize  further  asks  students  to  understand  systems  across  landscape  scales  and  national  boundaries,  to  conceive  of  new  eco-­‐cultural  practices  by  premising  existing  landscape  dynamics.      Most  recently  I  have  led  students  on  a  four  day  trip  across  the  state  of  Alabama  to  better  understand  the  civil  rights  history  and  regional  landscape  context  of  the  citizen-­‐based  design  projects  that  we  engage  in  our  neighboring  Macon  County.  Working  locally  in  studio  we  visit  the  site  repeatedly:  to  survey  the  land  and  study  its  emerging  ecologies  and  layers  of  history,  to  work  with  community  partners  and  finally  to  test  and  refine  design  proposals.  Such  immersive  experiences  deepen  the  knowledge  base  of  the  course  at  hand,  but  as  importantly  build  and  support  the  personal  investment  in  the  subject  matter  that  inspires  students  to  excel.  These  types  of  projects  further  prepare  students  for  collaborative,  interdisciplinary  practice.                  My  courses  across  the  six  semester  program  provide  students  within  the  MLA  program  an  understanding  of  the  modern  history  and  contemporary  theory  of  the  discipline  and  an  opportunity  to  build  their  landscape  architectural  skills  directly  in  the  field  gaining  community-­‐based  design  skills.  They  aim  to  educate  a  next  generation  of  designers  to  be  able  to  carry  their  own  ideas  forward  through  collaborative  processes  and  the  practices  of  design  research  and  development  towards  place-­‐making  that  will  advance  the  biotic  and  civic  health  of  our  shared  public  realm.  

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B.    RESEARCH/CREATIVE  WORK  My  research  and  creative  work  are  explorations  and  productions  at  an  intersection  of  ecologic  and  civic  health:  diversity.    Having  participated  as  a  key  organizer  in  the  Landscape  Architecture  Foundation’s  Landscape  Future’s  Initiative,  I  brought  with  me  to  Auburn  a  focus  on  the  role  of  the  designer  of  21st  public  space  given  the  tensions  and  potentials  of  increasing  diversity  and  disparity  in  cities  around  the  world.  Diversity  is  a  key  indicator  of  eco-­‐cultural  resilience,  yet  a  characteristic  that  requires  research  and  interpretation  to  become  an  active  agent  of  design.  I  explore  educational  methods  and  theoretical  frameworks,  design  processes  and  designed  landscapes  that  challenge  and  advance  diversity  towards  the  cultivation  of  healthy  people,  sites,  communities  and  cities.      Scholarship  aimed  at  teaching  methodology  is  reflective  of  the  effectiveness  of  approaches  to  cultural  landscape  studies  and  design  that  combines  primary,  secondary,  and  tertiary  research-­‐  a  way  of  accounting  for  diverse  perspectives  and  histories.  Of  primary  interest  are  reciprocal  and  co-­‐creative  approaches  to  citizen-­‐based  design  in  the  evolution  of  new  public/civic  meeting  grounds.  These  investigations  are  advanced  through  multi-­‐media  or  inter-­‐media  productions  such  as  digital  photography,  internet  platforms  and  videography.  This  technology  is  also  evaluated  in  terms  of  its  effectiveness  of  relating  to  diverse  audiences,  and  its  capacity  to  synthesize  and  communicate  complex  information.    The  audience  is  principally  academic,  though  recent  work  is  aimed  at  a  broader  civic  audience.    International  case  studies  and  local  creative  outreach  practices  reflect  on  questions  of  design  of  public  spaces  given  increased  diversity  and  disparity  with  a  specific  interest  in  civic  health.  I  have  focused  my  international  research  on  contemporary  design  projects  in  post-­‐apartheid  South  Africa  because  they  are  significant  testing  grounds  of  the  world’s  most  progressive  democratic  constitution.  The  research  is  connected  to  Alabama  both  theoretically  and  by  design  as  the  testing  ground  of  a  collective  approach  to  community-­‐based  design  that  increases  civic  health.      

B1.   Book  Chapter  (See  A1)    

Zanzot,  J.  and  MacCannell,  D.  (2013,  forthcoming)  “Design’s  Diaspora”  edited  by  Robert  Hewitt  for  the  Landscape  Architecture  Foundation    

 B2.   Peer-­‐Reviewed  Journal  Articles      2007   Zanzot,  J.  “From  Pixels  to  Starlight,  The  Luminous  World  of  Artist  Lily  Yeh.    South  African  

Journal  of  Art  History,  Special  Issue,  Beauty,  Ugliness,  and  Sublimity,  Vol.  22    The  South  African  Journal  of  Art  History  is  a  peer  reviewed  journal  publishing  articles  and  reviews  on  the  following  subjects:  Art  and  architectural  history,  Art  and  architectural  theory  ,  Aesthetics  and  philosophy  of  Visual  culture,  Art  and  the  environment,  Film    and  Craft. This  international  peer-­‐reviewed  journal,  published  twice  a  year  since  1987,  in  English  and  Africaans  is  read  by  South  African,  African,  European  and  American  audiences.    American  artist  Lily  Yeh  has  worked  the  last  twenty  years  to  create  beautiful  democratic  spaces  that  function  as  public  urban  sanctuaries  in  the  most  disturbed  and  violent  places.  Through  her  visions  of  peace  as  well  a  cultivated  method  of  community  training  and  development,  the  resulting  gardens  and  guardians:  mosaic  angels,  sculpted  figures  and  

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brightly  painted  murals,  “push  open  the  dark  steel  gates  of  hell  and  let  in  some  sunlight  and  air.”  The  sublime  that  this  article  addresses  exists  in  the  chasm  between  neglect  and  intention,  in  the  transformation  from  despair  to  hope  through  art.  The  article  investigates  the  underlying  Eastern  concepts  of  beauty  that  guide  Yeh’s  work,  examining  her  methodology  to  understand  the  transformative  power  of  the  artist  to  cross  between  worlds  and  in  translation  give  form  to  spirit.  Conversations  with  Yeh  throughout  this  paper  offer  insight  in  to  the  significance  of  an  unintended  sublime,  one  perceived  only  in  the  raw  reversal  of  periphery  and  center,  ugliness  and  beauty.  Yeh’s  work  illustrates  a  potential  of  the  sublime  to  function  as  a  lever  in  the  aesthetics  of  landscape  regeneration.    

 2013   Zanzot  J.  and  Neil,  D.  Common  Ground  Alabama,  video  essay  in  peer-­‐review  for  PUBLIC,  

Imagining  America’s  on-­‐line  double  blind  peer-­‐reviewed  journal.    

 

B3.   Papers  and  lectures  (see  A3,  4,  and  C6  )    

a. International  Peer-­‐Reviewed  Conference  Papers    2013   Zanzot,  J.  “From  the  American  South  to  South  Africa,  Re-­‐Activating  Sites  of  Rural  Resistance”,  

International  Federation  of  Landscape  Architecture  (IFLA),  Capetown,  South  Africa.    IFLA  is  the  professional  body  representing  Landscape  Architects  worldwide.  Its  purpose  is  to  coordinate  the  activities  of  member  associations  when  dealing  with  global  issues,  and  to  ensure  that  the  profession  of  landscape  architecture  continues  to  prosper  as  it  continues  to  affect  the  design  and  management  of  our  environment.  This  publication  is  the  outcome  of  the  2012  Conference:  Landscape  and  Values,  hosted  in  Capetown  South  Africa.      The  double-­‐blind  peer-­‐reviewed  article  makes  a  bridge  between  contemporary  South  African  Landscape  design  and  design  in  Alabama  and  the  greater  Southern  United  States  in  relation  to  histories  of  rural  resistance  through  times  of  segregation  and  civil  rights  protest.    

2011   Zanzot,  J.  “Extraordinary  Vessels:  Urban  Landscape  Inversions  and  New  Civic  Imaginaries  presented  at  ARCHI-­‐AFRICA  2010,  Event  +  City,  Johannesburg,  South  Africa    

This  international  conference  was  hosted  by  WITTS,  the  University  of  Johannesburg  and  the  South  African  Institute  of  Architects.  The  conference  was  booked  not  merely  as  an  academic  gathering  but  as  a  major  cultural  event  designed  to  catalyze  new  thinking  about  downtown  Jo’burg.  The  conference  was  described  as  South  Africa's  first  architecture  mega-­‐event  AZA  2010  is  set  to  become  Africa's  premier  urban  culture  festival.    

“The  event  –  which  [ran]  in  Johannesburg  from  September  21  to  28  –  [aimed]  to  bring  architecture  back  to  the  public  domain  with  exhibitions,  performances,  films,  a  student  congress  and  a  star-­‐studded  multi-­‐disciplinary  conference”.  The  general  public  [was]  also  included  in  the  seven-­‐day  event  thanks  to  a  variety  of  events  and  exhibitions  across  Johannesburg  including  poetry  readings,  city  walking  tours,  live  music  and  drama  performances  and  photography  and  architecture  exhibitions”.    

The  paper  examines  new  thinking  and  place-­‐making  that  goes  beyond  accessibility  to  connect  a  diversity  of  imaginations  about  the  past  and  future  city.  Two  new  nationally  significant  public  places  Freedom  Park  and  Constitutional  Hill  are  examined  and  analyzed  in  light  of  the  way  that  the  landscape  sustains  or  affects  participatory  democracy  and  civic  imagination.      

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2012   Zanzot,  J.  “The  Cinesthetic  Landscape;  A  Critical  Realm  of  Design  Research”  Landscape  Legacy:  Landscape  Architecture  and  Planning  Between  Art  and  Science,  proceedings  of  the  CELA/ISOMUL  Conference,  Maastricht,  Netherlands.                        b. National  Peer-­‐Reviewed  Conference  Papers  (see  A3,  4)    

 2012   Zanzot,  J.  "Finding  Multiplicity  at  the  Center:  Lessons  from  Contemporary  South  African  

Landscapes"  (CELA)  University  of  Illinois  at  Urbana-­‐Champaign,  peer-­‐reviewed  abstract  accepted  and  published  in  conference  proceedings.  

   This  presentation  advances  research  on  the  design  of  21st  century  public  space  design  in  light  of  expanded  democratic  rights  and  increased  diversity  and  disparity.  This  paper  presents  two  contemporary  South  African  public  spaces  that  re-­‐configure  the  rules  of  the  public  realm  in  a  post-­‐apartheid  democracy,  expanding  the  story  of  who  is  included  and  how  this  realm  is  defined  by  new  thinking  about  the  South  African  landscape.  This  paper  presents  a  comparative  analysis  of  two  new  national  landmark  projects:  Freedom  Park  in  Pretoria  and  Constitutional  Hill  in  Johannesburg  as  they  seek  to  uphold  the  world’s  most  progressive  democratic  constitution.    

                                             2008   Zanzot,  J.  “Urban  Inversion,  Rewriting  South  Africa’s  Public  Landscape”  presented  at  ACSA  

National  Conference  Visionaries  on  the  Margins,  and  published  in  the  peer-­‐reviewed  proceedings.    

     B4.   Exhibitions  (see  B7)    ROSA  PARKS  100  WISHES  ROSA  PARKS  MUSEUM,  TROY  UNIVERSITY  MONTGOMERY  ALABAMA  December  2013-­‐January  2014  

This  exhibition  consists  of  100  framed  and  mounted  original  broadside  prints  on  handmade  paper  created  in  honor  of  Rosa  Park’s  100th  memorial  birthday  celebration  at  the  Troy  University  Rosa  Parks  Museum  in  Montgomery  Alabama.    The  13-­‐month  long  series  of  events,  lectures,  public  art  opportunities,  at  Troy  University  Rosa  Parks  Museum  is  recognized  by  the  United  States  Senate  as  the  official  re-­‐activation  of  Mrs.  Parks  enduring  contribution  to  civil  rights  in  the  United  States  of  America  and  the  world.  The  exhibition  also  includes  a  series  of  maps  that  spatially  render  the  intentions  of  young  Montgomerians  for  the  future  of  their  neighborhoods  and  communities,  the  city  itself.  Just  as  Rosa  Parks’  activities  catalyzed  the  transformation  of  public  transportation  systems  and  social  equity  in  1955,  the  Wishes  Project  presences  the  voices  of  youth  for  positive  social  change  in  the  21st  century.  Landscape  architectural  proposals  for  new  civic  infrastructure  will  be  developed  that  activate  wishes  in  the  form  of  new  community  programs,  places  and  infrastructures.  A  kiosk  that  shows  a  video  of  the  project’s  creation,  citizen  participation,  and  proposals  for  civic  infrastructure  will  be  shown  throughout  the  run  of  the  exhibition.  Four  didactic  panels  will  contextualize  the  exhibition  for  visitors.  Digital  versions  of  all  exhibition  components  other  than  the  framed  prints  will  be  provided  to  host  institutions.  An  interactive  web-­‐based  portal  will  also  be  created  to  provide  for  on-­‐going  participation  with  the  exhibition.  

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 RE-­‐IMAGINING  SCHOOLGROUNDS  DUDLEY  COMMONS  GALLERY  SHILOH  ROSENWALD  SCHOOL,  NOTASULGA  AL  Fall  2012-­‐  Spring  2013  

 Second  year  studio  landscape  architectural  proposals  for  Notasulga  School,  Deborah  Canon  Wolfe  Elementary  in  Shorter  and  the  Fews  Alternative  School  in  Montgomery  Alabama  were  featured  at  an  exhibition  hosted  first  at  the  Dudley  Commons  Gallery  in  and  then  at  the  historic  Shiloh  Rosenwald  School  in  Notasulga.  This  second  show  is  an  exhibition  of  regional  significance.    

   FROM  CLAY  AND  IMAGES:  BECOMING  ALABAMA  CAROLINE  MARSHALL  DRAUGHN  CENTER  FOR  ARTS  AND  HUMANITIES  BECOMING  ALABAMA:  THIS  GOODLY  LAND  CONFERENCE  Fall  2012  

 This  invited  installation  piece  provoked  questions  about  the  relationship  between  land  and  education  in  Alabama’s  history  and  future.  Made  of  a  slab  of  gold-­‐ochre  Macon  County  Clay,  and  trees  constructed  of  images  of  the  ruined  South  Macon  County  High  school,  the  piece  casts  a  curiously  disturbing  shadow:  reminding  us  to  reflect  on  the  processes  by  which  we  come  together  as  a  community  to  organize,  create  and  sustain  civic  infrastructures.      

     MOBILE  STUDIO:  ON  THE  ROAD  AND  IN  THE  FIELD  RALPH  B  DRAUGH  LIBRARY,  AUBURN  UNIVERSITY  Spring  2012  

 This  exhibition  created  in  partnership  with  Barry  Fleming,  Associate  Professor  of  Art,  and  Mobile  Studio  Co-­‐director  Dan  Neil  had  three  key  pieces:  1,  a  set  of  posters  that  won  Best  in  Show  at  the  Auburn  University  Creative  Scholarship  Juried  Faculty  Exhibition,  2,  a  pop-­‐up  gallery  in  the  RBD  Library  and  3,  a  4  day  event  that  brought  the  Mobile  Studio  Samford  Park  where  the  broader  University  community  could  examine  themes  of  labor  and  craftsmanship,  participatory  democracy,  urban  ecology  and  public  space.                                          

EPHEMERAL  ENCOUNTERS:  DARING  TO  ENGAGE  JULE  COLLINS  SMITH  MUSEUM  OF  ART  Spring  2011  

 Featured  at  the  School  of  Architecture  Faculty  Exhibit  at  the  Jule  Collins  Smith  Museum  this  mixed  media  installation  of  pano-­‐photography  and  peep  boxes  offered  the  ephemerality  of  public  space  as  a  provocation:  to  re-­‐conceive  boundaries,  to  re-­‐imagine  the  public  realm,  to  bring  forth  new  architectures,  to  de-­‐form  design.      

                 

CHUCK  WAGON:  SUSTAINABLE  TRAVELING  FIELD  STUDIES  (See  A7  Competitions)  MOSS  ROCK  ART  FESTIVAL,  HOOVER  AL    

This  design  proposal  created  with  Michael  Robinson  won  a  Gold  Prize  and  $2000  in  the  strictly  design  category  at  the  Moss  Rock  Festival,  Hoover  Alabama  2009.  (top  5  in  a  group  of  25  regional  entries)    

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B5.       Performances    2013   “Rites/Rites  of  Spring,  Revolutions  in  Beginnings”  2112  Salon,  San  Francisco,  CA     Mobile  Studio,    

2112,  Inc.  creates  opportunities  for  the  powerful  exchange  of  ideas  between  artists  and  scientists.  Through  publications,  initiatives  and  open  dialog,  2112,  Inc.    facilitates  cross-­‐disciplinary  research  in  these  fields,  seeking  to  catalyze  and  implement  ideas  and  solutions.      By  enhancing  communication  between  artists  &  scientists  2112,  Inc.  supports  experimental  projects  and  aims  to  interact  with  established  institutions  of  art  and  science  to  contribute  to  a  broader  transformation  in  the  integration  of  art&  science  for  research  and  educational  purposes.  

 2112,  inc.  formed  to  advance  and  promote  knowledge  and  education  by  engaging  in,  encouraging  and  supporting  cross-­‐boundary  ties  between  music;  literature;  medicine;  architecture;  painting;  sculpture;  dance;  theatre;  mathematics;  philosophy;  fashion,  film.  

 2013   “Hospitals  as  the  Common  Grounds  of  Physical  and  Civic  Health:  Studies  from  

Montgomery  Alabama”,  2112  Salon  in  Honor  of  the  Life  Works  of  Architect  Peter  Scher,  The  Quintessential  East  Londoner,  San  Francisco  CA  

 

 B6.     Patents  and  Innovations     None    

 B7.     Other  research/creative  contributions    

   2012   NATIONAL  DESIGN    COMPETITION  

“Designing  Civic  Health”,  a  Mobile  Studio  Production,  National  Council  on  Citizenship  Civic  Data  Challenge,  Honorable  Mention                                                                    

   2012     INTERNATIONAL  DESIGN  COMPETITION  

“Small  Hospital  Big  Ideas  Competition”  submission  with  team  Aditazz,  FIRST  PLACE  international  design  completion.          

   2009     CONFERENCE  PANEL  ORGANIZER  

Co-­‐organizer  and  moderator  with  Professor  Douglas  Pardue,  University  of  Georgia,  of  the  two  part  panel:  Shifting  Ground:  Towards  an  Architecture  of  Movement,  Adaptation  and  Flux,  ACSA  SE  Regional  Conference    

 2009   CONFERENCE  PANEL  ORGANIZER    

Co-­‐organizer  with  Professor  Mathew  Davis,  Temple  University,  Philadelphia,  and  moderator  of  the  panel:  The  Cinesthetic  Art  of  Urban  Inversion,  at  the  ACSA  SE  Regional  Conference    

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B8.     Grants  and  Contracts  (see  C8)     a.     Grants  received  ($36,526  total)      

Grant  Title:     Excavating  Local  Narratives  in  Advance  of  the  HS2:  TAMED  Date:       (2013-­‐2014)  Participants:     Sally  Robertshaw,  Community  Programs  Manager,  MADE  

Kathryn  Moore,  Institute  of  Art  and  Design,  Birmingham  England,    Jocelyn  Zanzot,  Master  of  Landscape  Architecture  Program,  Auburn  University,  Daniel  Neil,  Curator  of  the  Troy  University  Rosa  Parks  Museum,  Montgomery  Alabama,  Mobile  Studio  

Grant  Agency:     MADE,  a  centre  for  place-­‐making,  Birmingham  England  Amount:   Total  $5000    

This  project  has  been  commissioned  by  MADE,  a  centre  for  place-­‐making  in  Birmingham  England  to  facilitate  three  artists  residencies  to  work  with  engineers,  communities  and  landscape  architects  as  flood  defences  and  a  pedestrian  cycleway  are  created  along  the  industrialized  River  Tame  river  that  runs  through  Birmingham.  These  infrastructural  investments  run  in  advance  of  of  the  HS2,  a  multi  billion-­‐euro  high-­‐speed  rail  line  that  will  connect  London  and  Birmingham,  eventually  with  Leeds  and  Glasgow  in  the  next  20  years.  The  work  grows  directly  from  Mobile  Studio’s  national  and  international  scholarship  in  mobile  art  +  design  workshops  in  the  field,  drawing  diversity  into  design.  

 Project  Title:              Macon  a  Movable  Feast:  A  Celebration  of  Food  and  Health  in  Macon  

County  Alabama  APLA  PI:                                Jocelyn  Zanzot  Participants:   Dr.  Norbert  Wilson,  Dr.  Conner  Bailey,  Dr.  Michele  Worosz,  Dr.  Claire  Zizza  Grantor:                              Vice  President  of  Outreach  and  Scholarship  Start/End:                        March.  2013  –  December.  2013  Grant  Amount:     $20,000  -­‐  $5798  to  CADC  Mobile  Studio  

  Optimum  health  is  a  term  that  includes  physical  health  and  the  fitness  of  the  total  environment  as  it  contributes  to,  or  hinders  the  health  of  the  individual  and  community.  Landscape  architecture  research  provides  the  platform  for  healthy  community  living  planning  and  design.  Previous  outreach  scholarship  conducted  by  this  team  finds  a  great  concern  about  hunger  among  residents  across  Alabama.  This  proposal  extends  Mobile  Studio  work  on  civic  health  in  Macon  County,  a  rural  county,  to  conduct  a  community  food  security  assessment,  to  use  the  “mobile  studio”  approach  to  assess  food  concerns,  and  to  develop  a  local  food  festival  to  celebrate  local  food  ways.  Proposals  for  enhanced  community  sites  and  infrastructure  to  improve  food  security  and  health  will  be  presented  to  the  Macon  County  Commision  for  implementation.  Our  efforts  are  to  develop  white  papers  to  support  the  local  and  statewide  Food  Policy  Councils  and  to  provide  templates  of  activities  to  develop  citizen  scientists  to  support  these  efforts.  A  graduate  level  seminar  is  being  andscape  architecture    

 Grant  Title:   Mobile  Studio  Project:  Advancing  Sustainable  Futures  Along  a  

Vanishing  Road  Date:   February  2011-­‐12  APLA  PI:                                Jocelyn  Zanzot  Participants:   Barry  Fleming,  Associate  Professor  of  Art,  Mark  Wilson,  Director  of  Civic  

Learning  Initiatives  Grant  Agency:     CADC  SEED  Grant,  Auburn  University  Amount:     $9470    

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The  Mobile  Studio  Project,  funded  by  the  AU  Level  2  Intramural  Grant,  and  a  CADC  Seed  Grant,  produced  collaborative  documentation  and  representation  of  contemporary  landscapes  of  the  Old  Federal  Road.  Like  the  Dorothea  Lang  and  Walker  Evens  WPA  photojournalism  of  the  rural  south  in  the  1930s  this  project  has  sought  to  represent  and  interpret  the  remnant  landscapes  along  the  disappearing  historic  route.  The  Mobile  Studio  methodology  was  tested  at  different  well-­‐researched  historic  crossroads,  and  the  resultant  works  have  been  peer-­‐reviewed  presented  and  published.  The  project  has  demonstrated  success  in  terms  of  academic  rigor  and  creative  enterprise.    

 Grant  Title:     Federal  Road  Initiative:  Design  Research  of  a  Vanishing  Landscape  Participants:     P.I.  Jocelyn  Zanzot,  Co-­‐Investigators:  Barry  Fleming  Interim  Chair  of  the  

Art  Department,  Dan  Neil  Exhibit  Director  of  the  Jule  Collins  Smith  Museum  and  Greg  Schmidt  of  Library  Special  Collections  and  Archives  

Grant  Agency:     AU  Office  of  the  Vice  President  for  Research  Amount:     $  8000  (2010-­‐2012)    

The   Federal   Road   Initiative:   Rural   Outreach   and  Design   Research   proposal   activated  the   Old   Federal   Road   as   a   cultural   transect   through   the   multiple   histories   and  landscapes   of   south   eastern   Alabama.   The   Seed   funding   enabled   an   emerging  interdisciplinary  partnership  to  investigate  and  draw  attention  to  the  multiple  notions  of   land-­‐use   and   societal   change   along   this   historic   route,   and   contributed   to   the  network   of   efforts   to   revitalize   rural   economies   within   the   region.   This   one-­‐year  investment  was  used  strategically  to  generate  extramural  support  and  advance  peer-­‐reviewed  publication.    

 Grant  Title:   Landscape  Imagination  Lab  (see  D1)  Participants:   Jocelyn  Zanzot  with  Philip  Shell  president  of  the  AU  student  ASLA    Grant  Agency:     Concessions  Board  2011    Funding:     $4,000      Grant  Title:     Ecosystem  Services  for  Community  Health:    A  Dynamic  Trans-­‐disciplinary  

Framework  for  Design:  [Turneffe  Atoll  Belize]  (see  A4)  Participants:   P.I.  Jocelyn  Zanzot  Grant  Agency:     CADC  Seed  Grant    Amount:     $10,000  (2009-­‐10)  

 Grant  Title:   Summer  Workshop  Series:  Videography  for  Design  (see  A4)  Participants:   P.I.  Jocelyn  Zanzot  in  collaboration  with  Mathew  Davis  Grant  Agency:   Office  of  the  Provost,  Biggio  Center,  Daniel  F.  Breeden  Endowed  Grant    

  Amount:     $2500  (2009-­‐2010)    Grant  Title:   The  Cinesthetic  Landscape  (see  D4)  Participant:   Professor  Mathew  Davis,  Temple    Grant  Agency:   AU  Special  Lectures  Committee,  Office  of  the  Provost  Amount:     $1000  funded  (2009)  

     

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 b.          Grants  applied  for  but  not  funded  

 Project  Title:              Rosa  Parks  100th  Birthday  Wishes  Project  APLA  PI:                            Jocelyn  Zanzot  Grantor:                              Graham  Foundation    Start/End:                        May  2013  Grant  Amount:      $25,000  

 Project  Title:              Shiloh  Community  Garden  APLA  PI:                                Jocelyn  Zanzot    Grantor:                                National  Park  Service  Community  Garden  Grant  Start/End:                        February.  2013  –  December.  2014  Grant  Amount:    $6500    Grant  Title:               Rosa  Park's  100th  Birthday  Wishes  Project  APLA  PI:                              Jocelyn  Zanzot  and  Daniel  Neil  Grantor:                                Central  Alabama  Community  Foundation  Start/End:                          December.  2012  –  December.  2013  Grant  Amount:      $15,400  

 Grant  Title:     Picturing  the  Landscapes  of  the  Old  Federal  Road  Participants:   Dan  Neil  Exhibit  Designer  of  the  Jule  Collins  Smith  Museum,  Barry  

Fleming,  Interim  Chair  of  the  Art  Department  Grant  Agency:   AU  Cooperative  Extension  Grant:  Federal  Road  Initiative  2010-­‐2011  Funding:     $25,000    

   Grant  Title:   An  Integrative  Approach  to  Agricultural  Research  and  Education:  A  

Uganda-­‐Alabama  Partnership  Participants:   Co-­‐PI  Jocelyn  Zanzot,  Co-­‐P.I  Dr.  Brian  Parr  in  Agricultural  Education  (co-­‐

PI)  and  Dr.  Willie  Cheatham  (co-­‐PI)  ,  Professor/Chair  of  Agribusiness,  Alabama  A&M.  

Grant  Agency:     USDA  International  Science  and  Education  Competitive  Grant  2009-­‐2010  

Amount:     $150,000,  special  2011  re-­‐submission      Grant  Title:     Advancing  Research  on  the  Cinesthetic  Landscape:  Digital  Video  Lab  Participants:   Jocelyn  Zanzot  Grant  Agency:   CADC  Seed  Grant  2009-­‐2010:      Amount:     $10,200    Grant  Title:   URBAN  GAMBITS:  Design  for  Dialogue  Across  Difference  Participants:    with  Trisha  Martin  of  WE  Design  NYC    Grant  Agency:   Van  Allen  Institute:  New  York  Prize  Fellowship:  politics  and  culture  

category:  2009     Amount:     stipend  for  production  of  work  in  NYC.  

 Grant  Title:   Forest  Ecology  Preserve  Master  Plan  and  Design  Participants:   Professor  Linda  Ruth  and  FEP  Director  Jennifer  Lolly  Grant  Agency:   AU  Competitive  Outreach  and  Scholarship  Grant  2008  Amount:     $15,000  

 

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B9.     Description  of  Scholarly  Program        

My  research  is  focused  on  the  regeneration  and  re-­‐imagination  of  civic  life  and  the  public  realm  as  part  of  the  project  of  sustainability  and  health.  I  am  interested  in  design  processes  and  designed  places  that  presence  diverse  histories  and  reconstruct  local  ecologies  in  imaginative  ways  that  expand  the  significance  of  public  space  and  make  new  opportunities  and  encounters  across  difference  possible.  My  research  and  creative  work  looks  at  these  design  challenges  both  internationally  and  here  in  Alabama  as  a  matter  of  outreach  and  scholarship.    My  own  scholarship  on  design  across  difference  towards  new  civic  meeting  grounds  is  gaining  funding,  peer-­‐reviewed  recognition,  and  consequence  for  the  local  and  international  communities  with  which  I  work.  

 Research  on  contemporary  South  African  landscape  +  architecture  projects  focuses  on  the  question  of  how  these  new  places  re-­‐conceive  the  public  realm  in  the  design  process,  in  constructed  detail  and  programming.  Focus  has  been  on  Freedom  Park  in  Pretoria  and  the  new  Constitutional  Court  in  Johannesburg,  two  internationally  significant  landmark  projects.  Scholarship  focuses  on  the  design  challenges  and  strategies  engaged  by  their  respective  design  teams  for  overturning  past  societal  divisions  and  making  places  which  are  in  dialogue  with  the  experiences  and  imagination  of  the  diverse  South  African  population  which  will  visit  and  use  the  respective  sites.  This  research  investigates  the  new  rituals  of  public  space  made  possible  through  design  that  gives  voice  to  previously  underrepresented  constituencies  and  investigates  the  role  of  landscape  architecture  specifically  in  such  an  enterprise.    These  design  research  questions  are  also  tested  and  advanced  through  local  and  international  outreach  projects  that  provide  students  opportunities  for  civic  engagement.  Collaborative  design  work  with  the  Shiloh  Restoration  Community  Foundation  is  an  example  that  advances  scholarship  about  dialogue  across  difference  as  a  creative  strategy  for  regenerating  the  public  realm.  First  explored  in  the  studio  setting  with  students,  the  Deutsch  Foundation  has  funded  continued  design  development  for  the  community’s  site  in  Notasulga  Alabama,  which  has  been  placed  on  the  National  Historic  Register.  The  work  tests  processes  of  engagement  and  translation  that  communicate  the  stories  of  this  community  to  visitors,  as  it  empowers  a  new  generation  of  community  programs  and  regenerates  local  ecologies.      As  part  of  this  research,  I  am  interested  in  the  media  through  which  such  civic  projects  emerge  and  with  which  such  projects  communicate  to  a  broad  audience.  I  have  been  awarded  several  internal  grants,  including  the  Daniel  F.  Breeden  Endowed  Grant  to  support  this  dimension  of  the  work,  specifically  videography  for  its  double  capacity  to  engage  landscape  in  time  and  movement  and  to  immediately  reach  diverse  publics.  The  jury  of  the  2010  AL  ASLA  awards  said  of  the  winning  student  with  whom  I  worked,  that  his  filmic  production  was  engaging  in  a  way  that  would  benefit  the  entire  profession,  for  its  capacity  to  emotionally  and  intellectually  captivate  its  audience.    Several  other  projects  that  have  been  funded  grant  funded  and  published.  The  first,  funded  by  a  $10,000  CADC  Seed  Grant  is  called  Ecosystems  Services  for  Community  Health,  A  Dynamic  Trans-­‐disciplinary  Framework  for  Design,  Turneffe  Belize.  The  second  project  received  a  level  two  OVPR  interdisciplinary  grant  to  explore  issues  of  contemporary  land-­‐use  and  landscape  perception  along  the  spine  of  the  Old  Federal  Road  through  the  state  of  AL.  More  recent  projects  include  collaboration  with  Troy  University  Rosa  Parks  Museum  to  envision  new  civic  infrastructure  for  the  City  of  Montgomery  on  the  occasion  of  Ms.  Park’s  100th  Birthday.  And  another  partnership  with  Tuskegee  Center  for  Human  Rights  and  Bioethics  looks  at  Food  Security,  Food  Systems  and  Food  Health  in  Macon  County.  

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C.  OUTREACH  

 C1.     Commentary    

The  design  and  planning  of  healthy  landscapes  that  enhance  the  ecological  capacity  of  their  urban  areas,  and  provide  vital  public  space  is  central  to  landscape  architecture  practice  and  the  regeneration  of  healthy  environments  around  the  world.  Equity  of  access  is  critical  to  the  sustainability  of  such  civic  places/networks  and  the  overall  resilience  of  cities.  Community-­‐based  design  becomes  a  critical  educational  thread  of  Auburn  University’s  Master  of  landscape  architecture  program  and  has  been  developed  through  the  Mobile  Studio  to  facilitate  local  partnerships  for  sustained  service-­‐learning  studios,  research  and  creative  collaborations,  outreach  and  scholarship.  The  Studio  connects  Auburn  and  local  students  with  other  academic  practitioners,  citizens  and  artists  to  excavate  local  narratives,  identify  opportunities  and  propose  new  civic  infrastructure  throughout  Alabama  and  abroad.      Auburn  University’s  Master  of  Landscape  Architecture  program  has  three  main  objectives  in  the  education  of  professional  landscape  architects:  1.  to  train  creative  and  adaptive  leaders  2.  to  create  a  vital  design  research  culture  3.  to  practice  critical  civic  and  social  engagement  through  outreach.    Zanzot  founded  the  Mobile  Studio  to  enhance  and  expand  at  the  third  objective  developing  a  participatory  citizen-­‐based  design/action  model  here  in  Alabama.    This  lightweight,  portable  design  service  studio  has  been  introduced  to  students  in  their  second  design  studio  within  the  six-­‐semester  curriculum.  Students  learn  to  set  up  a  mobile  operational  field  space  across  Alabama;  to  invite  dialogue  from  diverse  constituencies,  identify  opportunities  to  build  new  civic  infrastructure  and  enhance  the  growth  of  healthy  communities.      The  work  of  the  studio  has  been  peer-­‐reviewed  nationally  and  internationally,  and  published  in  local  papers  and  on-­‐line  media  journals.  My  outreach  scholarship  tests  and  advances  participatory  design  practices  that  imagine  and  construct  new  civic  infrastructures  for  optimum  health.  I  have  formed  the  Mobile  Studio,  in  partnership  with  the  Troy  University  Rosa  Parks  Museum  to  develop  an  adaptive,  collective  approach  to  design  for  environmental  and  social  justice  that  collaborates  with  communities  across  the  state  to  continue  the  work  of  civil  rights,  promoting  a  new  generation  of  programs  that  build  civic  health.    Design  studios  teach  students  strategies  of  co-­‐creative  design,  or  design  across  difference,  within  the  student  group  and  between  the  group  and  the  outside  stakeholders  as  a  matter  of  formal,  spatial,  regenerative,  landscape  design.  The  extension  of  opportunities  for  Landscape  Architecture  education  and  impact  beyond  the  campus  is  analyzed  and  evaluated  in  terms  of  the  equity  and  efficacy  of  these  partnerships  and  the  role  of  the  design  arts  particularly  in  rural  economic  development.    The  National  Council  on  Citizenship  has  recognized  this  work,  as  well  as  the  U.S.  Senate.  Currently,  with  Dr.  Carla  Jackson  Bell,  I  am  developing  a  National  curriculum  for  diversity  in  Design  Education  and  Architecture.      My  integrated  approach  to  service  learning  studios,  design  research  and  outreach  scholarship  builds  local  and  international  opportunities  for  graduate  research  students  on  collaborative  interdisciplinary  teams.  These  projects  provide  students  and  graduate  research  students  with  hands-­‐on  teaching/learning  opportunities  and  valuable  experience  partnering  with  agencies  of  urban  change.  In  larger  civic  projects,  this  collaboration  is  integral  to  the  framing  of  the  research  question,  as  well  as  the  delivery  of  desired  outcomes.  In  the  more  informal  community-­‐based  projects  resourceful  collaborations  are  pursued.  

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 a.     Overview      

In  response  to  the  need  for  landscapes  that  better  contribute  to  physical  and  civic  health  both  locally  and  abroad,  my  outreach  work  has  coalesced  in  a  program  called  the  Mobile  Studio.  Motivating  the  work  are  the  research  interests  outlined  above  including  diversity  and  public  space,  civic  health  and  imagination,  and  regenerative  design  practice.  The  studio  works  in  partnership  between  the  Master  of  Landscape  Architecture  Program,  other  Auburn  University  units  such  as  Community  and  Civic  Engagement,  Agricultural  Economics  and  Rural  Sociology,  Art,  Public  History,  Journalism,  Special  Collections  and  Archives  and  neighboring  communities  particularly  between  Lee,  Macon,  and  Montgomery  Counties.    The  Mobile  Studio  developed  out  of  a  series  of  collaborative  projects  with  Linda  Ruth  in  Building  Science  under  the  Course  Title:  Civic  Engagement  for  the  Built  Environment.  Between  2009-­‐2011  built  projects  included  the  Forest  Ecology  Preserve,  the  Early  Learning  Center,  and  the  East  Alabama  Mental  Health  Clinic  Garden.  This  collaborative  work  mentored  first  by  D.K.  Ruth  and  the  Master  of  Design/Build  Program  and  then  Linda  Ruth  and  CEBE  led  to  a  long-­‐term  community  design  partnership  with  the  Shiloh  Community  Restoration  Foundation  in  Notasulga,  Alabama.      These  first  projects  established  a  model  for  teaching  landscape  architecture  service-­‐learning  studios  that  work  with  local  communities  to  build  vital  public  spaces.  Tested  and  now  beloved  landscapes  in  the  Auburn-­‐Opelika  area,  and  nationally  recognized  in  the  popular  press  including  USA  Today  and  the  ASLA  (American  Society  of  Landscape  Architects)  website.  These  first  projects  established  key  partnerships  and  paradigms.  The  Mobile  Studio  was  founded  to  combine  proactive  design/build  praxis  with  community-­‐based  landscape  architecture  through  the  service  learning  studio,  creative  research  and  outreach  scholarship.    The  Mobile  Studio  Goals:      

§ To  facilitate  meaningful  co-­‐creative  partnerships  with  community  members,  and  create  opportunities  for  citizens  that  might  not  otherwise  have  points  of  entry  into  higher  education  to  the  see  themselves  within  the  continuum  of  critical  thought  and  discourse  regarding  the  health  of  the  built  environment.  

 § To  plan,  design,  and  build  new  meaningful  public  places  and  civic  

infrastructures  through  these  partnerships  that  regenerate  local  ecologies,  economies  and  communities.    

 § To  publish  and  exhibit  the  collective  images,  plans,  and  productions  for  

subsequent  critical  evaluation,  scholarship  and  open-­‐source  reproduction.    Projects  provide  a  forum  for  community  members  to  research  and  reveal  diverse  histories  and  visions  for  the  future.  In  the  last  three  years  the  following  projects  have  been  introduced  in  graduate  level  courses,  funded  by  both  internal  and  external  sources  and  been  nationally  and  internationally  recognized.  The  work  impacts  the  communities  in  which  these  gardens  are  built,  student  education  in  the  professional  practice  of  landscape  architecture,  and  design  education  as  the  model  is  evaluated  critically  and  published  as  scholarship.            

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 Graduate  Courses   Funded  Outreach  Scholarship     Publication/Recognition  Foundation  Studio:    Forest  Ecology  Preserve  Master  Plan  

S.W.a.M.P.  grant  Forests  Forever  grants  (grants  enabled  by  my  work)  

USA  Today  WSFA  Feature  Kaboom  ASLA  website  

Design  Studio  2:  Re-­‐Imagining  Schoolyards  

Shiloh  Community  Restoration  Foundation  Design  Plan,  Deutche  Foundation  

Erasing  Boundaries,  CELA    Paper  IFLA  Paper  Report  to  the  Macon  County  Commission  and  School  Board  

Design  Studio  4:  Dynamic  Systems    

CADC  Seed  Grant:  Ecosystem  Services  for  Community  Health,  Turneffe,  Belize  

Report  to  the  Oceanic  Society  

Urban  Theory:  American  Urban  Landscape  ,  lectures  on  the  evolution  of  American  urban  landscapes  

CADC  Grant:  Federal  Road  Initiative,  Design  Research  of  a  Vanishing  Landscape  OVPR  Inter-­‐disciplinary  Grant:  Mobile  Studio  Project,  Advancing  Sustainable  Futures  Along  a  Vanishing  Road    

Best  in  Show  in  Juried  Faculty  Exhibit  of  Creative  Research    Papers  presented  at  CELA  and  Imagining  America  

Outreach  Seminar:  On  Wishes  and  Resistance  

Designing  Alabama’s  Civic  Health,  and  Rosa  Park’s  100th  Birthday  Project  Appalachian  Regional  Council  with  CLA  

National  Council  on  Citizenship  Honorable  Mention  Recognition  for  the  Mobile  Studio  Rosa  Park’s  100th  by  the  U.S.  Senate  Common  Ground  Alabama,  in  PUBLIC,  journal  of  Imagining  America  

Landscape  Food  Systems  Seminar  

“Macon  a  Movable  Feast:  Food  Systems,  Food  Health,  Food  Security  and  Celebration  in  Macon  County”  Competitive  Outreach  Scholarship  Grant  

Macon  County  Food  Security  Assessment  and  Macon  it  Good,  Landscape  Cookbook  both  forthcoming…  

 b.     Mission  

 The  School  of  Architecture,  Planning  and  Landscape  Architecture’s  Outreach  Mission  is  dedicated  to  providing  planning,  design  and  construction  expertise  to  communities  typically  underserved  by  the  design  professions.  Landscape  Architecture  brings  to  this  work  the  knowledge  to  enhance  ecological  function/health  by  design  and  through  the  construction  of  landscapes  that  perform  year  round  to  the  benefit  of  communities.  By  nature  the  work  crosses  scales  from  watersheds  and  ecosystems,  to  civic  infrastructures,  down  to  the  site  situation.  The  mission  of  my  work  is  to  work  with  communities  to  presence  their  own  histories  and  reconstruct  local  ecologies  in  imaginative  ways  that  expand  the  significance  of  public  space  and  the  civic  realm.  I  aim  to  assist  in  making  new  opportunities  and  encounters  across  difference  possible  by  design.  Deliverables  include  Documentation  of  Research  and  

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Analysis,  Master  Plans  and  Design  Proposals  and  future  opportunities  for  student  +  community  construction  and  installation.    

c.     Outreach  Scholarship    Outreach  scholarship  investigates  both  the  Mobile  Studio  pedagogy,  and  the  efficacy  and  equity  of  the  University-­‐community  partnerships  cultivated  within  course  settings  and  through  my  work  in  the  MLA  program.    The  recent  publication  of  Common  Ground  in  Alabama,  in  the  on-­‐line  peer-­‐reviewed  journal  PUBLIC  validates  the  co-­‐creative  premises  and  approach  to  the  scaffolding  of  design  and  implementation  of  new  civic  infrastructure  up  the  ladder  of  civic  engagement  the  politics  of  place-­‐making.        

d.     Impact    

The  impact  of  my  outreach  activity  and  outreach  scholarship  can  be  found  in  three  areas:  the  impact  on  local  community  groups,  the  impact  on  the  design  education  community,  the  impact  on  Auburn  students.  

 COMMUNITY  GROUPS:  The  work  has  had  a  significant  impact  on  several  community  groups  across  the  State  of  Alabama,  as  well  as  internationally.  Civic  health  projects  have  directly  touched  the  quality  of  life  needs  of  varied  communities,  from  long  term  policy  outcomes  related  to  global  environmental  change  to  built  environments  that  enhance  recreational  and  educational  needs  of  local  citizens.      DESIGN  EDUCATION  COMMUNITY:  Whereas  the  practice  of  Landscape  Architecture  has  traditionally  been  restricted  to  large  scale  municipal  projects  or  well  funded  individual  clients,  my  outreach  approach  extends  the  departmental  ethos  of  the  “Citizen  Architect”  first  articulated  by  the  late  Samuel  Mockbee  in  the  formation  of  the  Rural  Studio,  that  espouses  the  principle  that  professional  expertise  should  be  made  available  to  citizens  and  community  members  that  might  not  otherwise  be  able  to  access  design  professions  that  are  capable  resolving  complex  issues  within  their  communities.  My  practice  extends  the  precedents  of  community  engaged  design  by  not  only  acknowledging  diversity  as  a  component  of  practice,  but  making  manifest  diverse  voices  and  needs  as  the  central  principle  of  design  decision  making.  Further,  as  my  outreach  approach  addresses  the  needs  of  these  emerging  places  and  acknowledges  their  role  in  societal  resistance  to  untested  change,  my  work  extends  the  role  of  landscape  architecture  in  civic  life.  This  approach  centers  the  needs  of  practice  within  the  flow  of  rapidly  changing  professional  roles  and  their  relationship  to  client  and  community.    

 AUBURN  STUDENTS:    This  approach  affords  Auburn  University  students  the  opportunity  to  develop  significant  and  meaningful  interactions  with  clients  faced  with  genuine  need  and  asks  them  to  develop  a  practice  based  in  social  responsibility.  

 C2.     Activities    

a. Other  Outreach  Activities  and  Products    I  developed  several  courses  including  design  studios,  seminars,  outreach  projects  and  field  days  and  workshops  to  support  the  community-­‐based  design  research  of  the  Mobile  Studio,  advancing  a  pedagogy  and  practice  that  extends  the  college’s  civic  traditions  through  landscape  architecture.  Courses  connect  the  theories  of  participatory  action  research  with  communities  in  need  of  renewed  investment  in  healthy  civic  infrastructure.  The  studio  collaborates  with  diverse  partners  to  identify  local  landscape  potentials  and  build  meaningful  public  spaces.  Several  recent  

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projects  partner  with  AU  Civic  Learning  Initiatives  to  connect  students  between  Macon,  Lee  and  Montgomery  Counties-­‐  Auburn,  Tuskegee,  and  Troy  Universities.    

 1. Advancing  Food  Systems,  Food  Security,  Food  Health  and  Celebration  in  Macon    

County  through  Landscape  Architecture  (2013-­‐2014)  Funded  by  an  AU  Competitive  Outreach  and  Scholarship  Grant:  $20,000  LAND  7000:  Landscape  Food  Systems  Seminar  

 This  outreach  has  been  advanced  through  the  creation  of  a  new  graduate  level  seminar  on  the  topic  and  with  a  graduate  research  assistant  on  design  research  in  Macon  County.  Deliverables  include:  

 o four  Mobile  Studio  field  days/  listening  sessions  

 o mapping  of  food  production  districts,  transportation  networks  and  points  of  

delivery  for  locally  and  regionally  produced  food  products    

o Food  Security  Assessment  for  Macon  County  to  inform  the  Alabama  Food  Policy  Council    

o production  of  a  Local  Food  Festival    

o publication  of  a  Macon  County  Landscape  Cookbook    

o future  white  papers  and  external  grant  funding      

2. Rosa  Parks  100th  Birthday  Wishes  Project  (2012-­‐2013)     LAND  7420:  Outreach  Seminar:  On  wishes  and  Resistance  

In  collaboration  with  the  Troy  University  Rosa  Parks  Museum,  Troy  University  Department  of  Graphic  Design  

 In  honor  of  the  occasion  of  Rosa  Park’s  100th  birthday  celebration  the  Mobile  Studio  developed  a  hands-­‐on,  participatory  series  of  activities  that  will  manifest  the  community  wishes  of  the  children  of  Montgomery,  Alabama  through  co-­‐creative  art  making  and  civic  engagement.  The  children  of  Montgomery  have  been  asked  by  the  Museum  Director,  Georgette  Norman  to  reflect  on  Ms.  Park’s  vision  for  her  city  during  her  life  time  and  write  down  their  own  vision  and  wishes  for  their  city  today.  Mobile  Studio  in  collaboration  with  AU  MLA  Students,  Rosa  Parks  Museum  Youth  Ambassadors  and  Troy  University  Graphic  Design  Students  transform  these  wishes  into  public  messages  and  buildable  projects.    The  wishes  have  been  mapped  spatially  and  transformed  into  actionable  design  proposals.  This  dimension  of  the  work  is  advanced  through  Mobile  Studio’s  position  within  Auburn  University’s  Master  of  Landscape  Architecture  Program.  Here  are  opportunities  for  two  more  Ambassador  workshops  one  that  develops  a  map  of  wishes  and  a  second  that  translates  these  wishes  into  photomontages  that  turn  wishes  into  proposals  for  neighborhood  transformation.  Such  images  can  become  documents  to  be  carried  forward  with  the  City  of  Montgomery  Planning  and  Development  Department  and  local  neighborhood  organizations.                

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To  date,  the  project  has  accomplished:    

 o The  Wishes  Program  has  collected  responses  from  more  than  2000  people  in  

Montgomery,  Alabama  and  around  the  world  regarding  the  future  they  would  like  to  see  for  their  communities  and  city  inspired  by  the  life  work  of  Rosa  Parks.    

 o Field  Days:  paper-­‐making  at  the  Rosa  Parks  Museum,  silkscreen  printing  in  

Montgomery’s  Court  Square  with  approximately  150  people      

o Workshops:  graphic  design,  poster  production,  mapping  and  design  proposals  with  the  Rosa  Parks  Museum  Youth  Ambassadors  and  the  greater  community.  

 o Recognition  of  this  project  by  resolution  of  the  US  Senate  as  the  official  National  

Celebration  of  Mrs.  Parks  100th  Birthday  Memorial:  more  than  a  remembrance  or  even  an  event,  it  is  an  unfolding  process  of  education  and  engagement  with  our  sense  of  place  designed  to  activate  wishes  inspired  by  Rosa  Parks  into  the  future.    

 o Press:  several  feature  stories  in  the  Montgomery  Advertiser,  WSFA,  and  Troy  Public  

Radio    

3. Designing  Alabama’s  Civic  Health  (2011-­‐2012)  Funded  in  part  by  Dr.  Mark  Wilson,  Director  of  Community  Learning  Initiatives  Appalachian  Regional  Council  Grant.    LAND  7420:  Outreach  Seminar:  On  wishes  and  Resistance  Publications:  PUBLIC,  journal  of  Imagining  America:  “Common  Ground  Alabama”  Award:  NCOC  Civic  Data  Challenge  Honorable  Mention    

Designing  Alabama’s  Civic  Health  is  a  collaboration  between  the  Mobile  Studio  and  Community  and  Civic  Engagement  at  Auburn  University,  the  David  Mathews  Center  for  Civic  Life  in  Montevallo,  and  Macon  County  Bridge  Builders.  The  project  engages  civic  health  data  through  art  +  design  education  towards  the  re-­‐presentation  of  local  issues,  the  re-­‐imagination  of  local  opportunities  and  the  regeneration  of  community  landscapes.  The  work  began  as  a  challenge  to  visualize  data  about  civic  health  and  use  the  media  arts  :  1.  to  communicate  and  interpret  the  information  2.  Broadcast  the  data  and  connect  people  to  it  3.  and  most  importantly  from  our  perspective,  leverage  the  significance  of  the  data  towards  new  opportunities  for  the  future  of  Macon  County  youth  that  are  economically  viable,  ecologically  responsible  and  culturally  vital.  

 To  Date,  the  project  has  accomplished:    

o Two  Mobile  Studio  Field  Days:  paper  making  and  silkscreen  poster  printing  for  approximately  300  students      

o Four  civic  health  posters  produced,  distributed  to  15  +  local  organizations  that  positively  contribute  to  civic  health  in  Macon  County.  The  original  prints  now  hang  in  the  Macon  County  Courthouse  in  Tuskegee.    

 o Several  feature  stories  published  in  the  Tuskegee  News,  Alabama  School  Journal  

 o Creation  of  a  new  website:  http://www.designingcivichealth.com    

 o 15  minute  video  submission  Mobile  Studio:  Designing  Alabama’s  Civic  Health  to  

the  NCOC  Civic  Data  Challenge,  Honorable  Mention  among  60+  entries  

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4. Vanishing  Landscapes  Along  the  Old  Federal  Road.  (2011-­‐2012)  Funded  by  CADC  Seed  Grant  and  OVPR  Level  3  Interdisciplinary  Grant  Published  at  CELA  and  in  PUBLIC,  Journal  of  Imagining  America  

 In   response   to   the   State   of   Alabama’s   Department   of   Tourism   initiative,   Becoming  Alabama,  a  multi-­‐year,  multi-­‐site  celebration  of  the  unique  anniversaries  that  formed  the  state,  The  Federal  Road  Initiative:  Design  Research  of  Vanishing  Landscape  researches  and  documents  the  Old  Federal  Road  in  Alabama  that  runs  through  13  contemporary  counties.  Auburn  University  Office  of  the  Vice  President  for  Research  Interdisciplinary  grant  funded  the  development  of  the  co-­‐creative  field  method  for  documenting  the  landscape  that  has  evolved   into   the   Mobile   Studio.   The   studio   worked   with   communities   to   identify  landscapes  along  this  historic  route  that  could  serve  as  strategic  nodes  for  rural  economic  development.  These  strategic  points  were  located  and  informed  by  archival  studies  of  the  route’s  significant  history  since  its  inauguration  in  1806.      The  methods  of  investigation  include:  writing,  drawing,  photography  and  videography.  The  three   sites   selected   along   the   AL   Federal   Road   open   conversations   about   the   history,  present   and   future   of   these   landscapes   to   diverse   publics.   The   field   days   tested   the  methods  and  verified  the  approach’s  capacity  to  yield  meaningful  results  within  the  year.  This  project  is  well  positioned  to  add  a  critical  dimension  to  the  study  of  this  historic  road  and   its   role   in   generating   economic   development   opportunities   in   adjacent   rural  communities.    

 The  work  has  resulted  in  the  following  to  date:    

o Three   field   days   in   the   communities   of   Uchee,   Burnt   Corn,   and  Mount   Vernon,  Alabama  

 o An  exhibition  at  the  RBD  Library    

 o Best   in   Show   at   AU   Research   Week   Faculty   Exhibit   of   Fine   and   Applied   Arts:  

Creative  Research    

o Presentations  and  Papers  at  AU  Research  Week,  CELA,  and  IFLA,  PUBLIC    

5.  Shiloh-­‐Rosenwald  Community  Restoration  Foundation,  Notasulga  Alabama  (2010-­‐ongoing)    Master  Plan,  Schematic  Site  Design,  and  Construction  Detail  Development  Publication  of  Design  Research  and  Proposal    Conference  Papers  National:  Design  Research  and  the  Rural  LANDSCAPE  Studio:  Learning  from  Shiloh  International:  From  the  American  South  to  South  Africa:  Re-­‐activating  sites  of  rural  resistance  IFLA  2012  

 Work  with  the  Shiloh-­‐Rosenwald  Community  Restoration  Foundation  (SCRF)  has  focused  on  creating  a  master  plan  for  their  site  that  facilitates  visitor  access  to  this  National  Historic  Site  including  the  Shiloh  Missionary  Baptist  Church,  the  Shiloh-­‐Rosenwald  School  and  the  Shiloh  cemetery,  and  enables  a  new  generation  of  community  programs  from  Head  Start  activities  to  adult  health  and  education  classes.  A  critical  dimension  of  the  work  is  to  sensitively  acknowledge  the  loss  of  human  life  through  institutional  neglect  that  community  members  and  families  suffered  during  the  Tuskegee  Syphilis  Study  and  to  

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celebrate  the  courage  and  resilience  that  the  community  has  in  bringing  about  global  change  in  the  role  of  human  subjects  in  governmentally  sponsored  medical  research.      With  the  physical  work  of  restoring  the  school  near  completion  (accomplished  as  a  collaboration  between  SCRF  and  the  Design  Build  Master  Program,  2009),  the  studio  team  of  seven  graduate  students  surveyed  the  site,  which  has  a  significant  slope  and  erosion  issues.  Working  with  Chairman  Lou  Maxwell  of  the  County  Commission,  the  Macon  County  civil  engineer,  Mayor  of  Notasulga  and  Angelo  Franceschina  of  RIPI,  the  design  team  drafted  plans  that  will  address  issues  of  automobile  access  to  the  property  off  Route  81,  and  wheel  chair  accessibility.        To  date:  the  project  an  increased  the  capacity  of  the  community  by:      

o Receiving  a  Deutche  Foundation  Grant  to  develop  the  plan    

o Papers  Published  and  Presented  at  CELA,  Erasing  Boundaries,  Imagining  America,  and  IFLA  

 o Schoolyards  Exhibition  hosted  at  Shiloh  inaugurated  the  Rosenwald  Schools  new  

community  programming    

o Landscape  Plans  available  at  two  Annual  Gala’s  and  Re-­‐Unions    

o Students  invited  to  Three  Shiloh  Galas    

 6.          East  Alabama  Mental  Health:  Parking  Lot  to  Paradise  (2011)  

 Working  with  the  staff  and  clients  of  the  East  AL  Mental  Health  Clinic  and  a  group  of  students  enrolled  in  CEBE,  I  have  helped  consult  on  the  design  plan,  construction  details  and  plant  selection  in  the  conversion  of  their  back  parking  lot  into  a  garden.      The  project  received  the  following  external  funding,  and  recognition  resulting  in  several  significant  outcomes:    

o Lowes  Grant  of  $2000  for  materials    

o Financial  support  from  Gene  and  Jonna  Chizic    

o Donations  and  a  long-­‐term  partnership  with  Blooming  Colors  Nursery    

o The  creation  of  this  garden  transformed  the  physical  space  but  also  facilitated  the  implementation  of  much  needed  outdoor  therapy  and  recreational  activities  for  the  clients  of  the  program.  

   

 7. Auburn  University:  Louise  Kreher  Forest  Ecology  Preserve  (2008-­‐2011)    This  project  was  the  result  of  collaboration  between  Building  Science,  Forestry  and  Wildlife  Science,  the  former  Master  of  Design/Build  program  in  CADC  ,  and  the  Master  of  Landscape  Architecture  Program.  It  began  in  the  Summer  Foundation  Studio  as  an  introduction  to  Site  Analysis  and  Planning.  Subsequent  graduate  research  assistants  

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advanced  the  Natural  Playground  Design  to  enable  Preserve  Director  Jennifer  to  gain  Forest  Forever  Grants,  volunteers  and  donations  to  construct  and  open  the  Recently  the  grand  opening  of  the  Natural  Playground  received  national  recognition  in  a  USA  Today  article  April  2010  on  exceptional  playgrounds  across  the  country.    

o Master  Plan  produced,  Parking  lot  and  Natural  playground  designed  and  built,  used  and  loved  by  thousands  of  people.  

 o Work  enabled  the  Preserve  to  win  a  $10,000  S.W.a.M.P  Grant  (Saugahatchee  

Watershed  Management  Plan)  towards  sustainable  parking  lot  construction,  and      

o Forest  Forever  grants  for  the  construction  of  the  Natural  Playground.      

o Recognition  in  local  papers  such  as  the  Plainsman  and  the  Auburn  Opelika  News,  USA  Today,  WSFA  News,  publication  on  Kaboom,  American  Society  of  Landscape  Architects  website.  

   8.   Auburn  University:  Early  Learning  Center  (2008-­‐2010)  

 This  service  project  was  explored  with  graduate  research  assistants  and  in  the  context  of  the  LAND  Construction  Course  1,  Fall  2009.  This  work  is  situated  in  new  theories  of  childhood  development  and  the  geography  of  childhood,  building  on  the  assertion  that  children  develop  a  broader  set  of  cognitive  and  motor  skills  in  situations  of  open-­‐end  play  and  exploration  rather  than  the  prescribed  and  circumscribed  play  offered  by  the  standard  sets.          Consultancy  and  design  work  with  the  ELC  in  their  three  connected  outdoor  classrooms  has  helped  gain      

o $30,000  funding  to  construct  a  new  outdoor  solar-­‐powered  pavilion    

o matching  funds  from  local  businesses  and  campus  groups.      

o Design  and  construction  of  new  gardens  including  fig  tree,  blueberry  bushes,  a  banana,  new  dry  creek,  stepping  stones,  climbers,  outdoor  stage,  wave  field  and  trike  path.    

     9.       Turneffe  Belize,  Ecosystem  Services  for  Community  Health,  A  trans-­‐disciplinary  

dynamic  framework  for  testing  resilient  futures,  Turneffe  Atoll,  Belize  (2008-­‐9)    Research,  Analysis  and  Design  Proposals  for  Resilient  Futures  Publication  of  Design  Research  and  Proposals  

 In  collaboration  with  the  Oceanic  Society  and  the  University  of  Belize’s  Environmental  Research  Institute  this  project  began  as  a  second  year  graduate  studio  and  with  the  support  of  a  SEED  grant  and  matching  funds  from  the  Oceanic  Society  is  advancing  towards  a  published  report  and  published  scholarship.    Turneffe  is  the  most  biodiverse  atoll  in  the  western  hemisphere,  fringed  by  a  healthy  reef  system  and  home  to  an  endangered  population  of  saltwater  crocodile.  Just  35  miles  east  of  

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Belize  City,  the  atoll,  of  which  Blackbird  Caye  is  one  island  is  threatened  by  overfishing  and  land  clearance  for  both  temporary  fishing  camps  and  speculation  for  development.    The  design  studio  examined  the  ecological  and  cultural  dynamics  of  Turneffe  Atoll  in  order  to  develop  sustainable  +  resilient  proposals  for  future  inhabitation  of  Blackbird  Caye  as  alternatives  to  The  Blackbird  Caye  Special  Development  Area  Master  Plan-­‐  a  proposal  on  the  table  for  a  Cancun  style  resort  in  this  sensitive  landscape.      The  Project  Produced    

o A  report  that  summarized  the  group  analysis,  findings,  plans  and  detailed  design  development  scenarios  for  Blackbird  Caye  that  take  into  account  the  Turneffe  Island  Development  Guidelines  (TIDG)  and  value  ecosystem  services  whilst  creating  new  local  economies  and  opportunities.  The  report  was  distributed  to  the  partners  and  invested  agencies.    

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8. Outreach  Publications  (see  A3)    2013   Zanzot  J.  and  Neil,  D.  and  Sams,  B.  “Common  Ground  in  Alabama”,  video  essay,  PUBLIC,  

Imagining  America’s  on-­‐line  double  blind  peer-­‐reviewed  e-­‐journal      2013   Zanzot,  J.  “From  the  American  South  to  South  Africa,  Re-­‐Activating  Sites  of  Rural  Resistance”,  

International  Federation  of  Landscape  Architecture  (IFLA),  Capetown,  South  Africa.            2012   Zanzot,  J.  “Mobile  Studio:  Landscape  Studies  on  the  Road”  Council  of  Educators  of  

Landscape  Architecture,  (CELA)  University  of  Illinois  at  Urbana-­‐Champaign         CELA,  the  Council  of  Educators  in  Landscape  Architecture  is  the  National  Body  dedicated  to  

research  and  scholarship  in  the  discipline.  The  Annual  conference  is  competitive  and  acceptance  rate  is  30%.  The  theme  of  this  conference  was  Finding  Center,  Landscape  and  Values.    

    This  paper  describes  and  evaluates  the  Mobile  Studio’s  year-­‐long  study  of  the  Old  Federal  

Road  through  the  state  of  Alabama  as  the  formative  landscape  structure  of  the  state.  The  paper  further  considers  an  emerging  theory,  pedagogy  of  practice,  and  approach  to  participatory  action  research  advanced  within  the  MLA  program  at  Auburn.  One  of  the  outcomes  of  this  presentation  was  an  invitation  to  partner  with  the  Birmingham  Institute  for  Art  and  excavate  narratives  along  the  proposed  route  of  the  HS2,  30  billion  pound  high  speed  rail  that  will  connect  London  and  Birmingham,  eventually  with  Leeds  and  then  Glasgow.  

 2012   Zanzot  J.  and  Neil  D.  "Designing  Alabama's  Civic  Health"  Imagining  America  Conference,  On  

the  Practical  Uses  of  Media  Arts  for  Economic  Revitalization,  New  York,  September,  2012    

This  conference  is  a  national  double  blind  peer-­‐reviewed  conference  with  a  focus  on  Arts,  Design  and  Humanities  in  the  Public  with  a  concern  for  equitable  partnerships  between  Universities  and  their  Community  Collaborators.  This  year,  Imagining  Alabama  took  root  at  Auburn  as  a  unique  partnership  between  Arts  and  Humanities,  Community  and  Civic  Engagement  and  Multi-­‐cultural  and  Diversity  Outreach  Scholarship.                  

   

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2012   Zanzot,  J.  “Mobile  Studio:  Landscape  Studies  on  the  Road”  Council  of  Educators  of  Landscape  Architecture,  (CELA)  University  of  Illinois  at  Urbana-­‐Champaign,  March    

 2012   Zanzot  J.  "  Mobile  Studio  on  Alabama's  Old  Federal  Creek  Road",  Auburn  University  Research  

Week,  April  

 2011   Zanzot,  J.    “Design  Research  and  the  Rural  LANDSCAPE  Studio:  Learning  from  Shiloh”,  

CELA’s  Erasing  Boundaries  Symposium,  peer-­‐reviewed  abstract  accepted      

2009    Zanzot,  J.  “Inserting  Difference:  Teaching  Civic  Engagement  by  Design”  paper  presented  at  CELA,  February  2009,  abstract  published  in  the  conference  proceedings  

 

9. Electronic  Products    Designing  Civic  Health  Website:  www.designingcivichealth.com      Mobile  Studio  Website:  www.mobilelandscapestudio.wordpress.com      

10. Other  Outreach  Products,  Videos,  Job  Aids    Common  Ground  In  Alabama  Video:  10  minute  video  designed  to  explain  Mobile  Studio’s  pedagogy  of  place  through  making.  Available  to  a  diverse  audience  through  PUBLIC,  the  on-­‐line  journal  of  Imagining  America.    Re-­‐imagining  Schoolyards  Publication:  A  synopsis  of  the  MLA  Design  Studio  that  explored  the  potentials  of  school  yard  transformation  at  three  schools  in  Macon  and  Montgomery  Counties.  The      designs  serve  as  both  site  specific  propositions  and  templates  for  re-­‐considering  all  school  landscapes  as  productive,  performative  places  of  learning  and  imagination.  Self-­‐published,  available  in  the  College  Library.      Designing  Civic  Health  Posters:  displayed  prominently  in  Macon  County  schools  and  businesses  reminding  citizens  of  positive  civic  attributes  as  well  as  challenges.    Design  Alabama  Civic  Health  Video:  15-­‐minute  synopsis  of  Macon  County  students  efforts  to  interpret,  and  take  ownership  of  Civic  Health  Data  through  arts  and  design  productions.  The  video  is  available  on  line  at  the  two  websites  above.    The  Cinematic  Landscape:  kinesthetic.blogspot.com:  shared  site/platform  between  Auburn  MLA  students  and  Phildelphia  University  Landscape  Architecture  for  research  and  design  with  videography.      Master  Plan  for  the  Forest  Ecology  Preserve,  Design  for  the  Natural  Playground:  These  documents  represent  many  months  of  field  research,  site  analysis,  precedent  studies  of  other  nature  centers  and  environmental  education  preserves.  The  plans  consider  past  present  and  future  use,  management  and  long-­‐term  sustainability  of  the  site.  The  playground  drawings  have  been  built  and  published.    Report  for  the  Oceanic  Society:  Valuing  Ecosystem  Services  for  Community  Health:  This  report  is  based  on  four  days  of  intensive  field  study  at  Blackbird  Caye  with  local  professors,  ecologists,  and  citizen  fishermen,  as  well  as  remote  GIS  analysis  and  literature  reviews.  Plans  identify  sustainable  development  scenarios  informed  by  an  understanding  of  the  dynamic  Caribbean  systems  within  which  Turneffe  atoll  is  situated.  Ecological  design  proposals  were  presented  to  the  potential  developer  and  proved  successful  in  encouraging  a  more  environmentally  sensitive  approach.  

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g. Contracts,  grants  and  gifts.  (see  B8.a)    

Project  Title:               Macon  a  Movable  Feast:  A  Celebration  of  Food  and  Health  in  Macon                    County  Alabama  

APLA  PI:                                  Jocelyn  Zanzot  Grantor:                                  Vice  President  of  Outreach  and  Scholarship  Start/End:                          March.  2013  –  December.  2013  Grant  Amount:     $20,000  

 Grant  Title:   Mobile  Studio  Project:  Advancing  Sustainable  Futures  Along  a  

Vanishing  Road  Date:   February  2011-­‐12  Participants:   Barry  Fleming,  Associate  Professor  of  Art,  Mark  Wilson,  Director  of  Civic  

Learning  Initiatives  Grant  Agency:     Special  Lectures  Committee  Grant,  Auburn  University  Amount:     $9470      Grant  Title:   Design  Development  of  the  Shiloh  Community  Landscape  Plan  Date:   January  2011-­‐May  2011  Participants:   The  Shiloh  Community  Restoration  Foundation  and  Rural  Initiative  

Project  Grant  Agency:     The  Deutche  Foundation  and  match  by  Auburn  University  Master  of  

Landscape  Architecture  Program  Amount:     $5682  

 Grant  Title:     Federal  Road  Initiative:  Design  Research  of  a  Vanishing  Landscape  Date:   January  2011-­‐December  2011  Participants:     P.I.  Jocelyn  Zanzot,  Co-­‐Investigators:  Barry  Fleming  Interim  Chair  of  the  

Art  Department,  Dan  Neil  Exhibit  Director  of  the  Jule  Collins  Smith  Museum  and  Greg  Schmidt  of  Library  Special  Collections  and  Archives  

Grant  Agency:     AU  Office  of  the  Vice  President  for  Research  Amount:     $  8000        Grant  Title:     Ecosystem  Services  for  Community  Health:    A  Dynamic  Trans-­‐disciplinary  

Framework  for  Design:  Turneffe  Atoll  Belize  Date:   December  2009-­‐December  2010  Participants:   P.I.  Jocelyn  Zanzot,  in  collaboration  with  Birgit  Winning,  Director  of  The  

Oceanic  Society,  Dr.  Elma  Kay,  Director  of  the  University  of  Belize  Environmental  Research  Center,  Dr.  Wayde  Morse,  AU  School  of  Forestry  and  Wildlife  Sciences,  Dr.  Mark  Dougherty,  AU  Biosystems  Engineering,  and  Dr.  Nanette  Chadwick,  AU  Marine  Biology  

Grant  Agency:     CADC  Seed  Grant    Amount:     $10,000  (2009-­‐10)      

   

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D.  SERVICE      

D1.     University  Service:       a.  Auburn  University  Committees:  

 2010-­‐present   Auburn  University  School  of  Architecture  Senator        

I  represent  the  School  of  Architecture  at  the  Faculty  Senate.  This  includes  the  dissemination  of  relevant  issues  to  the  faculty  and  representation  of  our’s  School’s  interest  on  action  items  that  come  before  the  Senate  for  a  vote.  The  Senate  meets  once  a  month.  

 2010-­‐present   Auburn  University  Africa  Initiative:  Committee  for  Water,  Energy  and  the  Built  

Environment      

The  African  Initiative  was  inaugurated  in  2010  to  bring  together  teaching,  research  and  outreach  initiatives  across  the  University  based  in  Africa.  The  idea  is  to  increase  support  for  projects  and  learning/  exchange  opportunities  and  build  capacities  in  the  continent  of  Africa.  I  bring  to  the  effort  research  and  connections  in  South  Africa  as  well  as  previous  experience  in  West  Africa  and  the  professional  skills  to  work  with  infrastructure  and  ecologies  of  the  built  environment.    

   2010-­‐  present   Auburn  University  Forest  Ecology  Preserve,  Board  of  Directors         As  a  member  of  the  board,  I  offer  technical  assistance  with  planning  and  design  

decisions.  Additionally  the  Board  consults  on  issues  of  fundraising,  management  of  the  Preserve,  educational  programming  and  community  support.  Since  its  founding,  I  have  provided  technical  assistance  to  guide  the  drafting  of  a  master  plan  and  the  design  and  construction  of  the  playground,  the  new  watershed  smart  parking  lot,  and  many  other  new  features.  

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b.  School  of  Architecture  Committees:    

 2009-­‐present   Education  Technology  Committee    

As  a  member  of  this  committee  I  advise  the  School  Head  and  IT  director  on  annual  software  and  hardware  purchases,  and  decisions  that  reflect  the  overall  goals  and  objectives  of  the  various  programs  within  the  school.  I  represent  the  MLA  program’s  needs  and  desires  for  educational  technology  with  an  eye  for  both  the  standards  of  practice  and  advancements  in  the  field.  

 2009-­‐present   Lectures  Committee    

As  a  member  of  this  committee  I  have  been  responsible  for  bringing  one  Landscape  Architect  per  year  to  lecture  to  the  School  of  Architecture  lecture  series.  In  2009  Kenny  Helphand  from  the  University  of  Oregon  presented  the  

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lecture  Defiant  Gardens.  In  2010  Trisha  Martin  of  WE  Design  in  New  York  City  presented  Community  Entanglement:  A  Philosophy  and  Method  for  Design.  And  in  the  spring  of  2011,  Tom  Leader  of  Tom  Leader  Studio  in  Berkeley  will  be  speaking  on  his  recent  work  in  Birmingham’s  Railroad  Park:  Landscape  Urbanism  Emerging  In  Alabama.  The  2013  Lecture  is  Kathryn  Moore  of  the  Birmingham  Institute  of  Contemporary  Art…    Grant  Title:   Landscape  Urbanism  Birmingham  England  Date:     Fall  2013  Participants:   Kathryn  Moore,  one  time  funding  for  University-­‐wide  lecture  to  

supplement  the  School  of  Architecture  Lecture  Series.  While  here  she  will  review  MLA  student  work.  

Grant  Agency:     Special  Lectures  Committee  Grant,  Auburn  University  Amount:     $1200    

 Grant  Title:   Landscape  Urbanism  Birmingham  Alabama  Date:     February  2011    Participants:   Tom  Leader,  one  time  funding  for  University-­‐wide  lecture  to  

supplement  the  School  of  Architecture  Lecture  Series.  While  here  he  will  review  MLA  student  work.  

Grant  Agency:     Special  Lectures  Committee  Grant,  Auburn  University  Amount:     $1200      Grant  Title:   The  Cinesthetic  Landscape  Date:     June  2009  Participants:   Mathew  Davis,  one  time  funding  for  University-­‐wide  lecture  to  

supplement  the  summer  workshop  series.  Grant  Agency:     Special  Lectures  Committee  Grant,  Auburn  University  Amount:     $1000  

   2010-­‐present   Faculty  Advisor  to  the  AU  Student  Chapter  of  the  American  Society  of  

Landscape  Architects       As  Faculty  Advisor  to  the  ASLA,  I  help  students  fundraise  and  support  student  

travel  to  conferences.  I  offer  guidance  on  their  outreach  projects  and  have  recently  helped  them  secure  a  $4000  grant  to  establish  their  own  digital  media  office,  under  the  title  of  the  Landscape  Film  Initiative.  When  needed  I  represent  their  issues  to  the  LA  faculty  of  School.    

 Grant  Title:   Landscape  Film  Initiative    Date:     One  time  funding,  Jan  2011  Participants:   Jocelyn  Zanzot  with  Philip  Shell  president  of  the  AU  student  

ASLA    Grant  Agency:     AU  Concessions  Board    Funding:     $4,000    

 2009-­‐2010   Landscape  Architecture  Curriculum  Review  Committee    

Since  successfully  gaining  accreditation,  the  MLA  faculty  has  focused  on  the  development  of  a  new  curriculum  reflective  of  a  new  vision  for  the  program.  This  is  a  matter  of  re-­‐crafting  the  core  mission  statement,  goals  and  objectives  and  identifying  the  requisite  coursework  and  educational  approaches/opportunities  to  advance  these  intentions.  I  have  been  responsible  for  a  comparative  study  of  

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curricular  design  of  the  top  programs  across  the  country,  and  am  playing  an  integral  role  in  the  visioning,  and  development  of  the  new  curriculum.  As  the  new  program  is  inaugurated,  and  test-­‐driven  by  the  first  cohort  of  students,  I  continue  to  assist  with  the  scheduling  of  courses  and  end  of  term  assessments  and  the  administering  of  student  awards.    

Invited  Lectures  within  Auburn    “Landscape  Architecture:  Re-­‐Imagining  the  Future”  (Spring  2013)         This  lecture  introduces  landscape  architecture  as  a  discipline  and  practice  that  is  inherently  

collaborative,  as  a  way  of  seeing  the  built  environment  inextricable  from  the  history,  culture,  and  dynamic  ecologies  of  which  they  are  a  part.  The  lecture  underscores  the  breadth  of  work  to  be  done  in  the  world  across  the  interconnected  scales  of  region,  neighborhood  and  site  as  well  as  the  urgency  and  hopefulness  of  the  work.  The  art  of  design  is  illuminated  as  one  of  critical  skill  and  imagination.  Invited  by  Paul  Zorr  to  Arch  1000  an  introductory  design  seminar  as  well  as  at  the  request  Dr.  Carla  Jackson  Bell  for  prospective  students.    

 “Landing:  A  haptic  and  phenomenological  approach  to  discovering  landscapes,  and    “Mobile  Studio:  a  co-­‐creative  approach  to  citizen-­‐based  design”  (Spring  2013)       A  two  part  lecture  invited  by  Michael  Robinson  for  Environmental  Design  ENVD  4000  that  

considers  approaches  to  site  analysis  that  register  the  many  systems  and  encounters  already  at  play  in  the  terrain.  The  second  part  develops  an  approach  for  engaging  in  landscape  dialogues  with  diverse  communities  to  identify  and  advance  local  economies  and  ecologies.  

   “Race,  Class  and  Gender  in  Landscape  Architecture",  (September  2012)           This  lecture  explains  that  issues  of  race,  class,  and  gender  shape  the  form,  experience  and  

design  of  the  built  environment.  Landscape  Architecture  provides  both  a  theoretical  framework  for  deconstructing  and  re-­‐constructing  the  public  realm  to  expose,  reflect  on  or  re-­‐conceive  power  in  the  landscape.  Examples  of  practitioners  and  designed  landscapes  offer  students  concrete  examples  of  this  work.  Invited  by  Drs.  Becki  Retzlaff  and  Carla  Jackson  Bell  for  Community  Planning,  CPLN  5970/6970  

   “Design  at  the  Crossroads  of  Ecology  and  Industry,  Case  Studies  in  Regenerative    Design”,  (June  2010)    

 This  lecture  considers  the  cultural,  historical  and  toxicological  legacies  of  the  post-­‐industrial  and  looks  at  the  role  of  landscape  architecture  design  and  planning  in  regenerating  the  health  of  these  sites  and  rebuilding  local  economies.  Several  international  case  studies  become  touchstones  for  key  design  principles  that  consider  the  crossroads  of  ecology  and  industry,  art  and  community.  Invited  by  Dr.  Mark  Barnett’s  for  Environmental  Engineering  7210    

“The  Art  of  Design,  Landscape  as  Art”  (November  2009)    

Image  making  is  central  to  landscape  architecture  and  the  places  we  make  in  the  world  are  inextricably  linked  to  the  places  we  paint,  draw,  write  poems  about  and  otherwise  imagine  as  our  mythological  home.  We  know  the  world  through  not  only  the  stories  we  tell  but  the  pictures  we  draw.  This  lecture  flies  through  history  to  reveal  this  reciprocal  relationship  and  consider  where  it  is  going  next  as  our  technological  modes  of  representation  and  communication  evolve.  Invited  by  Scott  Finn  for  Landscape  Architecture  History  LAND  5120/6120.  

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 Invited  Internal  Juries  

 I  have  served  as  an  invited  juror  on  many  reviews  across  all  of  the  disciplines  of  the  School  of  Architecture  including  interior  architecture,  design-­‐build,  community  planning  and  architecture.  2008-­‐13.        Summer  2014     ARIA  Studio  Reviews    Fall  2014     Community  Planning  Historic  Preservation       Landscape  Architecture  Thesis  Reviews     Landscape  Architecture  Second  Year  Review    Spring  2014       Community  Planning  Historic  Preservation     Landscape  Architecture  Thesis  Reviews     Fifth  Year  Architecture  Thesis  Reviews    Spring  2013         Architecture  Thesis  Reviews     Landscape  Architecture  Thesis  Reviews     Landscape  Architecture  First  Year  Reviews    Fall  2012     Community  Planning  Historic  Preservation  Third  Year  Architecture,     Landscape  Architecture  Terminal  Studio  Review     Landscape  Architecture  Thesis  Review  

    Spring  2012  

  Community  Planning  Research  Methods     Design  Build  Midterm  Review     Second  Year  Architecture     Landscape  Architecture  Thesis  Reviews     Landscape  Architecture  First  Year  Reviews    Fall  2011     Third  Year  Architecture     First  Year  Architecture     Landscape  Architecture  Thesis  Reviews     Landscape  Architecture  First  Year  Review     Landscape  Architecture  Second  Year  Review    Spring  2011     Second  Year  Architecture     Fourth  Year  Architecture     First  Year  Landscape  Architecture     Landscape  Architecture  Thesis  Review          

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D2.     Professional  Service    

IFLA  International  Federation  of  Landscape  Architects  International  Student  Design  Competition  Juror    Alabama  American  Society  of  Landscape  Architects  (ASLA)  Regional  Representative  Alabama  ASLA  Student  Design  Award  Juror    Alabama  and  Georgia  Garden  Club  Lecturer  

  CELA  Council  of  Educators  in  Landscape  Architecture  Paper  Reviewer     ACSA  Regional  Council:  Panel  Organizer  

Peer-­‐reviewer  for  the  CELA  conferences  in  the  area  of  Landscape  Ecology  and  Planning  Peer  –reviewer  for  PLACES  journal.  

 Professional  Affiliations    2112  Inc.    Imagining  America  Community  Design  Alliance  American  Society  of  Landscape  Architects  Council  of  Educators  in  Landscape  Architecture  Architects  Designers  and  Planners  for  Social  Responsibility  Honorary  Member  of  Institute  of  Landscape  Architecture  South  Africa                    

                           

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 AUBURN  UNIVERSITY  

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 Name__Jocelyn  E.  Zanzot_____________________      Department__Landscape  Architecture_  College:  CADC  College  of  Architecture,  Design  and  Construction      Present  Rank_Assistant  Professor____________  Years  Completed  in  Present  Rank_____5________      Years  in  Faculty  Service  at  AU_____6_______  Years  in  Faculty  Service  Elsewhere__3_____________      Type  of  Current  Appointment:  ________Tenured  ___X____Non-­‐Tenured      Pay  Basis:  ___X____9  mo.  ______12  mo.      Graduate  Faculty  Status:  __X___Member_____  None     Date  Awarded:___2008____      Education:  Institution  List  most  recent  first.       Degree     Major     Date  Awarded      Masters  of  Landscape  Architecture     MLA     Landscape  Architecture   2003    Bachelors  of  Landscape  Architecture   BLA     Landscape  Architecture   2002  Bachelors  of  Art         BA     Studio  Arts     1996      Professional  Experience:  Institution   Rank       Period  of  Appointment  Include  AU  Experience.  List  most  recent  first.    Auburn  University       Assistant  Professor       2008-­‐2013  Auburn  University       Visiting  Assistant  Professor     Spring  2008  Auburn  University         Adjunct  Professor         Fall  2007  University  of  Pretoria,  South  Africa  Visiting  Senior  Lecturer         Spring  2006  University  of  California,  Davis     Adjunct  Professor       2004-­‐2006  Sierra  Community  College       Lecturer           2004-­‐2006      I  have  reviewed  (except  letters)  the  contents  submitted  in  the  attached  dossier:    Signature:  _________________________Date:_________________________