September 27, 2024 @ 4:00 p.m. MT | Craig Johnson Lecture
About Lecture:
MASS Design Group was founded on the understanding that design has a critical role to play in supporting communities to confront history, shape new narratives, collectively heal and project new possibilities for the future. In the face of a changing climate and rapid rates of biodiversity loss, holistic place based solutions are needed that cross disciplinary boundaries and catalyze action. Through our One Health work we have explored how restorative design approaches can scale from site based applications to regional scale solutions. This session will highlight these possibilities and discuss how collaborative partnerships can expand design approaches towards research based methodologies, sustainability, community benefit, and resilience.
Bio:
Therese is a landscape shaper and team leader who is passionate about the potential to support thriving ecosystems, communities and places of inspiration. In her work as a Design Director at MASS Design Group’s Boston studio, she strives to create an embedded understanding of the systems and identities that make up a place.
Therese works across MASS’ studios supports the design and development of projects in conservation and public memory. She has contributed to the development of Harris County Remembrance Park, the visioning of the University of Texas Austin’s East Mall, and the expansion of the Volcanoes National Park. Prior to this, she was located in the Rwanda office where she helped to manage the design and implementation of the Rwanda Institute of Conservation Agriculture, the Ellen DeGeneres Campus of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, and Norrsken.
Before joining MASS in 2018, Therese worked for GGN in Seattle, WA, Coen + Partners in Minneapolis and the Center for Public Interest Design at Portland State University. Therese received her Bachelor of Environmental Design and Landscape Planning from the University of Minnesota and a Master of International Cooperation in Sustainable Emergency Architecture from the International University of Catalonia in Barcelona.
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