Optimism and Action: Design and Planning for Today | Gina Ford and Brie Hensold

Kent State University’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design presents a virtual event series consisting of lectures, conversations between faculty + friends, and exhibitions.

Two things that matter to the college are building discourse and building networks. Lacking either, a program is just a sum of its curricular parts. With them we learn, grow, aspire and contribute to designing and building a better world.

The Lecture and Events series is dedicated to these purposes for our students, our faculty, and for the professional community. 

Please join the webinar Feburary 24th at 6 pm- 7pm. 

https://www.kentcaedlectureseries.com/registration-gina-ford-brie-hensold

Gina Ford, FASLA is a landscape architect, co-founder and principal of Agency Landscape + Planning. Underpinning her two decades of practice are a commitment to the design and planning of public places and the perpetuation of the value of landscape architecture via thought leadership, teaching, writing and lecturing.  Her work has received awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects, the American Planning Association and the American Institute of Architects, among others. She is on the board of directors for the Cultural Landscape Foundation and was the recipient of the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Charles Eliot Traveling Fellowship and Wellesley College’s Shaw Fellowship.

Brie Hensold, HASLA is an urban planner, co-founder and principal of Agency Landscape + Planning. With a passion for understanding and improving communities and places, Brie brings a systems-based approach that integrates multiple disciplines and celebrates diverse perspectives. She has extensive experience developing creative and meaningful community engagement processes for planning and design projects. Brie’s experience encompasses multiple scales, from downtown plans to citywide park systems to resilience strategies. Her work has received awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects, the American Planning Association and the American Institute of Architects, among others. She co-teaches an executive education class in resilient cities at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.