 | Designing the Parks part II: the present and future of park planning and design - San Francisco, 9-11 December 2008 09-12-2008, Source: Urbanicity.org Introduction Today’s designers, planners, and managers of public parks face an array of
competing issues and opportunities, yet they lack integrated guidance to address
these challenges effectively and creatively. Designing the Parks Part I,
(Charlottesville, May, 2008) assessed lessons learned through scholarly
examination of park planning and design history. Building upon this body of
information, Designing the Parks, Part II (San Francisco Bay Area, December
2008) will focus on contemporary challenges and opportunities and will produce a
set of design and planning principles to guide future park policy, development,
and management over the next century. Designing the Parks Part II offers
several opportunities through the web and on site in the San Francisco Bay Area
to help create this design future.
Description
In San Francisco, over three days, participants will analyze the present and
consider the future of park planning and design. The goal is to bring together
forward thinking designers, planners, park and resource managers, scholars,
preservationists, conservationists, social scientists, students, and other
professionals who understand the critical issues that must be addressed in
public park design and planning to maintain their relevancy and sustainability
in the 21st century.
The end product will be a set of draft
design
principles that will inform the policy, planning, design, and management of
public parks today and into the future. The facilitated workshop will consist
of plenary speakers, short presentations, case studies, and work sessions
organized around three tracks:
While Designing the Parks, Part I - Charlottesville was structured as a more
traditional academic conference, Designing the Parks, Part II - San Francisco
will follow an interactive, product-oriented format designed to create a
visionary set of design and planning principles.
Participants at the San Francisco Bay Area event will work in facilitated
teams discussing critical issues, challenges, and opportunities facing public
parks related to each of the three tracks. To allow cross pollination of ideas
and analysis, the work groups will have periodic opportunities to report back to
all of the conferees. Through this process, the teams will extract key concepts
and principles, challenge current park planning and design protocols, and
envision new approaches to the development of public parks in the future. By the
end of day three, participants will have produced a powerful and unified
preliminary set of design and planning principles. Following the conference, a
smaller interdisciplinary team will refine these preliminary statements to
produce a draft set of guiding principles that will be shared for comment with
all of the conference participants and others interested in the future of park
design. The ultimate goal of both conferences is to provide guidance that
assists managers, planners, and constituents of parks at all levels in resolving
the potential conflicts that can result from the multiple challenges and
requirements that they face as they plan for today and the future.
Those who do not participate in San Francisco will have the opportunity to
contribute to an ongoing, web-based dialogue about park policy, planning and
design. The ideas generated will help finalize the agenda and themes for the
San Francisco work session and will provide a framework for an ongoing
discussion as the draft principles are reviewed and tested.
How to participate?
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for presentations, notes and outcomes of the first part of the Designing the
Parks conference.
Programme
Location
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
601 Murray Circle
Fort Baker Sausalito, CA 94965 Register Links Click here to visit the conference websiteback |
