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Podcast: The Institute of Black Imagination.
Episode: E48. Sara Zewde: Parks and Liberation.
Description: Today’s episode is with landscape architect, designer, urbanist, and public artist Sara Zewde. Sara is the co-founder of Studio Zewde– a design firm practicing landscape architecture, urban design, and public art, as well as an assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. In this episode, she shares how design has been leveraged as a tool of oppression and how everyone must be involved in the process of thinking about the world they want to create. We explore the controversial origins of landscape architecture along with topics that range from Hurricane Katrina not only being a nat...