Program
Erasing Boundaries—Supporting Communities

Friday, April 4, 2008
Shepard Hall
8:30 am Registration, room 350

Morning Program
9 am - 12:30 pm
Presentations, Room 95

• Opening and Welcome
• Introduction and Framing of Symposium Themes

Paper Session 1

Cases from the Field

15 minutes each with 3/4 hour panel discussion and dialogue

• People & Place: Service-Learning Experiences in Community Development, Keith Bartholomew, Assistant Professor, Urban Planning and Mira Locher, Assistant Professor, Architecture, U. of Utah
• Student and Community Objectives/Conflicts in Design Extension Projects, Peter Butler, Iowa State University, Department of Landscape Architecture and Susan Erickson, Susan, Iowa State University Extension to Communities
• What Value does Collaboration have on Design? Carl Rogers, Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, Iowa State University
• Getting Closer to the Onion: Design Learning inside a Community, Sally Harrison, Department of Architecture, Tyler School of Art, Temple University
• Engage, Explore, Excite: Students and Communities Build Capacity and Build Trust, Brian Kane, Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Maryland and Jack Sullivan, Associate Professor and Coordinator, Landscape Architecture Program, University of Maryland
• “Sustainable Futures:” Placemaking in Monteverde, Costa Rica, Lynda Schneekloth, Urban Design Project, University at Buffalo and Scott Shannon, SUNY, College of Environmental Design & Forestry with Stacy Harwood, Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois, David Myers, Landscape Architecture, University of Maryland, Robert Shibley, Urban Design Project, University at Buffalo
• Commonwealth Avenue: Love Me, Love Me Not: Balancing Educational Goals, Student Abilities, and Community Desires, Paul Kelsch, PhD, Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture Program, Washington Alexandria Architecture Center, Virginia Tech and Joseph Schilling, Associate Director for Green Regions, Dept. of Urban Affairs and Planning, Metropolitan Institute, Virginia Tech
• Design/Build: A Service Learning Model serving Marginalized Communities, Daniel Winterbottom, Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture, University of Washington

Lunch
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Afternoon Program
1:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Presentations, Room 95

Paper Session 2

At the Margin: Position, Placement and Process

15 minutes each with ½ hour panel discussion and dialogue

• Considerations Pertaining to Mutual Benefit of Service-Learning Outcomes in Three Models of University-Community Partnership, Anne Schwieger, MCP Candidate 08, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning
• Reconsidering the Margin: Exploring Ways to Resituate Community-Based Academic Initiatives, Jodi Polzin, Visiting Assistant Professor, Washington University in Saint Louis, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
• Erasing Boundaries, Transforming Subjectivities: Service-Learning and Urban Planning Pedagogy, Susan C. Harris, Ph.D., Director of Research & Academic Affairs, USC Joint Educational Project, Research Adjunct Assistant Professor of Sociology and Clara Irazábal, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Urban Design and Planning, School of Policy, Planning, and Development, University of Southern California
• Less ‘design’, more ‘urban’: Rethinking the Pedagogy of Urban design. Mahyar Arefi, Associate Professor, School of Planning, University of Cincinnati
• Operative Sites for Dialogue and Reflection: The Role of Praxis in Service Learning Michael Rios, Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis

Paper Session 3

Strategies + Tools to Challenge and Renegotiate Boundaries

15 minutes each with ½ hour panel discussion and dialogue

• Dissolving Boundaries: Asset Mapping within the Context of Urban Planning, Cheryl Crowell, Masters Candidate, University of Cincinnati, College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning
• Engendering Mutuality as the Foundation for Learning in Community-Based Design Linda Corkery, Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture Program and Ann Quinlan, Architecture Program, Faculty of the Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
• Erasing Boundaries, Confronting Differences: the WILD-UW Partnership in Seattle, Jeffrey Hou, Ph.D. , Associate Professor, University of Washington.
• The end of advocacy planning? University-community partnerships in a neoliberal age Karen Chapple, Associate Professor, City & Regional Planning. Faculty Director, Center for Community Innovation, University of California, Berkeley
• The Obstacles are the Entrances: Notes on CSL from CSLD, Mollie Babize, Ken Byrne, Kim Erslev, Paul Cawood Hellmund, Jono Neiger, Faculty of the Conway School of Landscape Design, Graduate Program in Sustainable Landscape Planning and Design, Conway, Massachusetts

Paper Session 4

Assessing and Evaluating SL Impacts and Outcomes

15 minutes each with ½ hour panel discussion and dialogue

• Is it Professional or Personal? Engagement, Race, and Reflection in the East St. Louis Community-based Design Studio. Laura Lawson, Assistant Professor Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Action Research: Investigating, Reflecting, and Applying Service-Learning Experience in Professional Practice. Lynne M. Dearborn, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Reception
6:30 pm
Room 350

• Wine and Cheese

Saturday, April 5, 2008
Shepard Hall
8:30 am Registration, room 350

Morning and Early Afternoon Session
9:00 am - 1:30 pm

• 9:00 am - 10:45 am: presentations, Room 304
• 11:00 am - 1:30 pm: workshops, Room 304

Paper Session 5

Reflecting and Retrieving: Deepening our Research

15 minutes each followed by panel discussion and dialogue

• Perspectives on Service/Learning as Substantive Research. Peter Aesbacher, Assistant Professor, Penn State University, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture

• A Case Study: Service Learning as Catalyst for Teaching, Research and Service in Design Academia. Jill Pable, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Interior Design, Florida State University

• Service-Learning and Participatory Action Research: Learning from Reflective Engagement. Ruth Yabes, Associate Professor, School of Planning, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

• Assessing Outcomes of Transdisciplinary Action-Research. Susan Thering, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Dept of Landscape Architecture University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Shawn T. Kelly, ASLA. Distinguished Faculty Associate, Dept of Landscape Architecture, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Interactive Workshop 1 hour workshop

• From Boundaries to Synergies of Knowledge and Expertise: Using Pedagogy as a Driving Force for Change, Pat Crawford, Zenia Kotval, Trish Machemer, Peilei Fan, and Sissi Bruch, Michigan State University, School of Planning, Design and Construction

Dialogue and Discussion: Where do we go from here?

Facilitated 1 ½ hour breakout group and group discussion

Lunch and Adjourn
1:30 pm