Optimism and Action
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Join us as Gina Ford and Brie Hensold share Agency’s stories of building a mission-driven firm, committing to engagement-driven design, and what it means to be a women-led practice, today.
Gina Ford 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 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.
Publisher
Utah State University
Publication Date
3-5-2021
Keywords
Mission-Driven Firm, Engagement-Driven Design, Women-Led Practice
Disciplines
Landscape Architecture | Urban, Community and Regional Planning
Recommended Citation
Ford, Gina and Hensold, Brie, "Optimism and Action" (2021). Speaker Series. 10.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/laep_speakerseries/10