ASU MLA Studio - Madison Pioneer Neighborhood Tree and Greening Plan -1 - Intro

MADISON PIONEER NEIGHBORHOOD TREE AND GREENING PLAN FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY JOINT MASTER OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE STUDIO FALL 2020 ASU MASTER OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE JOINT STUDIO

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ABOUT THE STUDIO

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THE STUDENTS

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SITE PHOTOS

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COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

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RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS

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DESIGN GOALS

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FINAL PROJECTS

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MEDIA COVERAGE OF STUDIO WORK

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Map ofServices Madison Neighborhood Client: Human Campus Pioneer Inc. 204 S. 12th Ave Phoenix, AZ Downtown Phoenix website: https://hsc-az.org/

PUBLIC RECORDS REQUEST - POST AND CHAINS INSTALLATION LDE 521+621: Project Site

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ABOUT THE STUDIO The Madison Pioneer Neighborhood, located in the City of Phoenix, is steps away from the state capital, but worlds away from the grand designs of the mall and civic buildings in this area. For decades the Human Services Campus, a campus with 16 partner organizations working to end homelessness, has been located in this neighborhood. There are smaller organizations such as Justa Center and Andre House who also serve people experiencing homelessness located here. The coalescing of social services means that there are more people experiencing homelessness in the neighborhood and using the streets than in other neighborhoods in the City of Phoenix. The heavy use of the public commons of the streets, and the extremely wide right of way landscapes in this neighborhood, by people experiencing homelessness day and night puts the inhumanity of our current lack of housing support on full display.

Homelessness rose during the COVID pandemic, and is expected to continue to rise for years to come as the economic fallout of the pandemic reverberates through our community. COVID, the unexpected crisis of 2020, was fuel on the fire of an existing crisis of poverty and homelessness which we was already predicted to get worse because of climate change.

Our studio worked with the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions throughout the Fall 2020 semester to propose landscape architectural solutions to issues identified through three steps: 1. Listening to the Madison Pioneer Neighborhood community by meeting directly with community organizations and neighborhood groups.

2. Researching, analyzing and mapping data about this neighborhood and housing insecurity and poverty through a variety of methodologies.

3. Researching precedent solutions to similar community issues around the world.

As landscape architects in 2020, we are charged with designing space in a complex and unjust world.

Today’s designer sees the landscape as a complex series of interrelated social and ecological systems and understands that to design for equitable communities, we need to create spaces together. We ask others to see what we can not see. We question the status quo. We invite people to the table, who have never been invited in the past. More and more we are designing a facilitation process of engagement as much as we are designing spaces for community.

This studio focused on the intersection of the objectives of how landscape architecture can mitigate the effects of climate change, through the framework of the Green New Deal, and how landscape architecture can support improvements in neighborhoods of disinvestment, with a focus on people experiencing homelessness.

During this semester, we requested the budget from the city for the post and chains that were installed with federal CARES Act funds to keep people out of the right of way landscapes that the public is allowed to use by law. What if these millions of dollars were spent on trees and greenery for this neighborhood? Could it have had the same effect in incentiving distancing during COVID while providing shade for all users of these streets?

These final landscape designs were a direct response to the, sometimes competing, desires for the use of the neighborhood by the stakeholders in the area and use the tools of landscape sustainability to create a space for all users of the streets in this unique community.

LORA MARTENS, RLA, ASLA FACULTY ASSOCIATE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY LORA.MARTENS@ASU.EDU

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Baiyi Meng is a Master of Landscape Architecture from Arizona state university. I choose to study Landscape architecture because of my grandparents’ and mom’s influence. They like planting plants and telling stories of what the land used to be.

But many of the landscapes are already disappeared or slowly fade out in our lives. I start realizing how the landscape influenced our life, so I decided to study landscape. In the future, I would like to work in land restoration and urban design field.

Emily Olive is a masters of landscape architect candidate at Arizona State University.

She completed her bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics with a minor in studio arts at the University of Georgia. Emily focuses on urban ecology, green infrastructure, and accessibility.

She is interested in how urban greening can affect physical and mental health.

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Amanda Trakas is currently a Master of Landscape Architecture candidate at Arizona State University. She is dedicated to the creation of equitable and resilient landscapes using ecologically sensitive and socially informed design. Her interests in horticulture and permaculture design brought her to the study of landscape architecture after raising her two small children and working as a public school Spanish and ESL teacher.

Elizabeth Ferguson is currently finishing her Master degree in Landscape Architecture at Arizona State University. Love of plants and nature dates back to her childhood, growing up on her family farm. Experience in art, culinary arts, and horticulture brought Elizabeth to the world of landscape architecture, allowing her to incorporate a diverse background into the projects she works on. Elizabeth currently lives in Tempe, Arizona with her many plants.

Kevin Scholfield is a master of landscape architect candidate at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. Kevin is a landscape designer for WERK Urban Design. He completed his bachelors degree in public relations with a minor in sociology from Southern Illinois University.

Kevin’s focus is on urban design, sustainability and mitigating urban heat islands.

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SITE PHOTOS ASU MASTER OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE JOINT STUDIO

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