Webinar: Introduction to Afrocentric design principles in Landscape Architecture
ABOUT THE WEBINAR
This two-hour webinar offers an opportunity to learn landscape design principles through the lens of Afrocentric worldviews. Landscape architecture, often dominated by colonial and Eurocentric narratives, can instead become a powerful site for reclamation, honoring cultural identities, and preserving meaningful place-based practices.
In this session, we will center African cosmologies that highlight the interconnectedness of all life. These traditions view the land as a living, dynamic being that reflects and embodies natural, cultural, and spiritual values. This webinar will cover the foundations of Afrocentric principles in landscape design and the placekeeping values and practices that sustain African/ African-descendant cultural landscapes.
You are invited to move beyond Eurocentric ideologies and reimagine landscapes that celebrate a sense of place and design practices rooted in honoring places, histories, and culture.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:
An overview of Afrocentric design principles throughout history and across geographies.
Insights into ethnobotany from an Afrocentric perspective.
Methodologies and approaches for applying these principles in contemporary design.
This webinar offers a chance to reconnect with ancestral wisdom, challenge dominant narratives, and envision landscapes that honor truth, justice, and care through Afrocentric worldviews.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Those interested in learning Afrocentric design principles in landscape architecture.
Anyone curious about sustainable models for preserving African and Afro-descendant cultural landscapes.
Spatial designers looking to expand their understanding and practices from an Afrocentric perspective.
Curious minds passionate about rethinking the built environment.
Instructor: Lys Divine Ndemeye
Date: March 1st, 2025
Location: Online (zoom)
Time: 10am PST- 12pm PST/1PM- 3PM
The webinar is offered on sliding scale: $100- $200
Webinar info will be sent after purchasing.
ABOUT THE WEBINAR
This two-hour webinar offers an opportunity to learn landscape design principles through the lens of Afrocentric worldviews. Landscape architecture, often dominated by colonial and Eurocentric narratives, can instead become a powerful site for reclamation, honoring cultural identities, and preserving meaningful place-based practices.
In this session, we will center African cosmologies that highlight the interconnectedness of all life. These traditions view the land as a living, dynamic being that reflects and embodies natural, cultural, and spiritual values. This webinar will cover the foundations of Afrocentric principles in landscape design and the placekeeping values and practices that sustain African/ African-descendant cultural landscapes.
You are invited to move beyond Eurocentric ideologies and reimagine landscapes that celebrate a sense of place and design practices rooted in honoring places, histories, and culture.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:
An overview of Afrocentric design principles throughout history and across geographies.
Insights into ethnobotany from an Afrocentric perspective.
Methodologies and approaches for applying these principles in contemporary design.
This webinar offers a chance to reconnect with ancestral wisdom, challenge dominant narratives, and envision landscapes that honor truth, justice, and care through Afrocentric worldviews.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Those interested in learning Afrocentric design principles in landscape architecture.
Anyone curious about sustainable models for preserving African and Afro-descendant cultural landscapes.
Spatial designers looking to expand their understanding and practices from an Afrocentric perspective.
Curious minds passionate about rethinking the built environment.
Instructor: Lys Divine Ndemeye
Date: March 1st, 2025
Location: Online (zoom)
Time: 10am PST- 12pm PST/1PM- 3PM
The webinar is offered on sliding scale: $100- $200
Webinar info will be sent after purchasing.
ABOUT INSTRUCTOR:
Divine Ndemeye (she/her) is an acclaimed landscape designer, artist, and educator. She is the Principal & Creative Director of Remesha Design Lab, a versatile research-studio focused on landscape design and public art. Her studio is dedicated to creating healing and beautiful landscapes inspired by ancestral wisdom and Afrocentric values. Divine also serves as an Adjunct Professor at the UBC School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture.Divine is the founder and Co-Director of the Black+Indigenous Design Collective and host of the Design unmuted podcast. Her contributions to the field have earned her prestigious accolades, including the 2020 Olmsted Scholar Award and the British Columbia Society of Landscape Architects President’s Award in 2022.