Barbara Brown Wilson
Barbara Brown Wilson
 

Virginia Commonwealth University 2025 Morton B. Gulak Lecture: "Building Adaptive Community Capacity in Stressful Times"

 

Arthouse: A social kitchen | Jeana Ripple + Barbara Brown Wilson

Grand Opening video

Installation video

Project video

Leading planners, designers, authors and educators will discuss a wide variety of trending topics at the Texas A&M Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning Spring 2019 Lecture Series. Barbara Wilson, assistant professor of urban and environmental planning at the University of Virginia, focused on equity through design.

Texas A&M College of Architecture Lecture, Spring 2019, “The Ethics of Design/Research Practice”

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Equity Atlas Project

Interview with Equity Atlas partner, Siri Russel, at the Ablemarle County Office of Equity and Inclusion on the goals of the project.

On April 15th, Wilson gave a talk “at” MIT DUSP via zoom entitled Pluralism, Participation, and Power in Design for (Climate) Resilience where she reflected on what lessons from community-driven design can inform climate and covid recovery efforts.

On April 15th, Wilson gave a talk “at” MIT DUSP via zoom entitled Pluralism, Participation, and Power in Design for (Climate) Resilience where she reflected on what lessons from community-driven design can inform climate and covid recovery efforts.

 
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This summer students from the School of Architecture, under the leadership of Barbara Brown Wilson, director of the Center for Sustainable Development, and Bryan Bell, a visiting professor and director of Design Corps, set out to use sustainable and practical design to make a positive impact on a local community in just five weeks.

UT Austin Public Interest Design Program, Reimagining alley ways in East Austin

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In the United States, people of color are disproportionally more likely to live in environments with poor air quality, in close proximity to toxic waste, and in locations more vulnerable to climate change and extreme weather events. Further, residents with low socio-economic status are often displaced from their neighborhoods as they improve.

Virginia APA Webinar: “Resilience for All: Striving for Equity through Community-Driven Design” + Friendship Court Redevelopment Organizers

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In this webinar presentation, in association with ioby, we explore community driven design through two projects. The first project is in Detroit and the second takes place in Memphis. The catalyst for the projects, along with project leaders from ioby, are featured in the presentation.

Ioby Webinar: “Resilience for All: Community-Driven Design” + ioby neighborhood leaders

 
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Charlottesville Tomorrow’s Reimagining Friendship Court is a multi-media piece of journalism by Jordy Yager that includes a series of interviews with key contributors to this resident-driven redevelopment process.

Webinars + Podcasts + Interviews