Join us for Belinda Tato’s lecture “Landscapes for Empathy, Empathy for Landscapes Designing Atmospheres for Social Interaction” on Monday, Mar. 3 at 5:15 PM EST in the Cene Lecture Hall and on Zoom. Partaking in a round table discussion with Tato after the lecture will be Cat Soergel Marshall and Paul Mosley.
Zoom link: https://lnkd.in/gPYBzHdj
Belinda Tato is an architect, landscape architect and urban designer, co-founder and director of the firm Ecosistema Urbano, founded in 2000 in Madrid. Ecosistema Urbano specializes in urban consultancy, architecture, public space quality assessment and urban transformation processes. Their work has developed around the design of public space focusing on the improvement of bioclimatic conditions in contexts and climates as diverse as Norway, Florida or Bahrain. In parallel, Ecosistema Urbano has been developing participatory tools and techniques to involve citizens in the creative and transforming processes of urban environments.
During the last decade Ecosistema has successfully experimented with social software, communication platforms and the possibilities offered by new technologies to achieve the creation of more democratic urban environments. Since 2000, Ecosistema Urbano has received prizes and awards on more than 50 occasions and their work has been covered by media from more than 40 countries. Belinda Tato has led workshops, lectured and taught at the world's most prestigious institutions. She is currently an Associate Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, where she has been teaching since 2010.
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