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  • Thursday, March 28, 7:00 pm – The Larger Landscape Conversation: Queering Public Spaces

    Join architects Joel Sanders, Sami Meylnas Sikanas, and activist Kimm Topping at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on March 28 at 7 pm as they discuss how inclusive design and the crafting of accessible public spaces embrace diverse gender and sexual identities in a conversation that redefines urban design beyond heteronormative boundaries.

    The public realm has been historically conceived, constructed, and construed as heteronormative. The architectural and urban typologies of bathrooms, sports fields, and campuses have spatially reinforced strict gender binaries and prohibitions of various sexualities. More recently, the contemporary city has seen a growing discourse on design beyond its heteronormative origins. Queering Public Spaces convenes conversation on the role of design and planning in the curation of public spaces and landscapes that are accessible and welcoming to all, across the dynamic and vast spectrum of sexual and gender identities and lived experiences. The Larger Landscape Conversation is hosted by Gardner Museum Ruettgers Curator of Landscape and Harvard GSD Professor of Landscape Architecture Charles Waldheim.

    Advanced tickets are required and include Museum admission. Adults $20, seniors $18, students $13, free for members and children 17 and under.  Seating in Calderwood Hall is first come, first served. Seating begins 45 minutes before the event. Late seating is not guaranteed. To request accessible or wheelchair seating please call the box office at 617 278 5156. Register at https://www.gardnermuseum.org/calendar/larger-landscape-conversation-queering-public-spaces

  • Thursday, March 9, 7:00pm-8:30 pm – The Larger Landscape Conversation: The Design of Disability

    The Design of Disability convenes conversation on the design and planning of the public realm in relation to human capacities, civic aspirations, and bodily experience beyond access. This March 9 lecture in the Calderwood Hall at the Museum features Victor Calise, advocate for people with disabilities, author and professor Elizabeth Guffey, and artist and professor Sara Hendren. 

    The Larger Landscape Conversation is a recurring series at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum that brings together visionaries across disciplines to discuss the intersection of creativity, lived experience, and social justice.

    This program is moderated by Charles Waldheim, Ruettgers Curator of Landscape at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design.

    Advance tickets are required and include Museum admission. Adults $20, seniors $18, students $13, free for members and children 17 and under. Seating in Calderwood Hall is first come, first served. Seating begins 45 minutes before the event. Late seating is not guaranteed.

    HOW TO BUY

    • Click on the GET TICKETS
    • Call the Box Office at 617 278 5156, Wednesday-Monday, 10 am-4 pm*
    • Museum members free, Adults $20, Seniors $18, Students $13, children 7 – 17 free.

    COVID-19 POLICY

    Face masks, worn over the mouth and nose, are required for free and ticketed events in Calderwood Hall. In line with state and local guidance, we advise anyone who is unvaccinated, and encourage anyone who feels more comfortable, to wear a mask as they explore other areas of the museum.

    ACCESSIBILITY

    To request accessible or companion seating, or to inquire about other accommodations, please call the Box Office at 617 278 5156 in advance of the program.

  • Thursday, November 10, 7:00 pm – Gardner Museum Landscape Lecture: Julie Bargmann

    Julie Bargmann is a leader in designing and building regenerative and environmentally appropriate landscapes. She founded D.I.R.T. studio in 1992. Highly regarded for her versatility and hands-on approach (she likes to get her hands dirty), Bargmann’s work hews to themes of sustainability, economy, community engagement, respect for site histories, and above all a love of the landscape. For Vintondale Reclamation Park in rural Pennsylvania, she collaborated to create a large-scale natural filtration system for a waterway polluted by acid-mine drainage. The project earned D.I.R.T. the 2001 National Design Award from the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt Museum. Landscape Lectures begin at 7 pm in Calderwood Hall at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Lectures include Museum admission and require a ticket; tickets can be reserved online, in person at the door, or by phone: 617 278 5156. Museum admission: adults $15, seniors $12, students $5, free for members. This Thursday, November 10 event is sponsored by an anonymous donor. Landscape and Horticulture public programs are supported by the Barbara E. Millen and Markley H. Boyer Endowment Fund. This program is supported in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which receives support from the State of Massachusetts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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  • Thursday, September 8, 7:00 pm – Gardner Museum Landscape Lecture: Chris Reed

    Join The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum for our annual series of engaging and inspirational presentations from leading voices in the field of landscape architecture. Internationally renowned designers present their recent work articulating landscape as a medium of design for the social, cultural, and ecological life of the city. On September 8, at 7 pm in Calderwood Hall, Chris Reed will give the inaugural 2016/2017 lecture. Chris Reed, the founding principal of Stoss, is known for his innovative approach to the design of public spaces. Reed’s recent work includes the award-winning Plaza at Harvard University, which sits above the Cambridge Street underpass on the Harvard campus. This flexible open space accommodates events, pedestrians, and visitors who come to pass the time. Reed’s research interests include the impact of social sciences on design thinking and city-making strategies informed by landscape systems and dynamics. His work at Stoss has been recognized with the 2012 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Landscape Architecture and the 2010 Topos International Landscape Award. Tickets can be reserved online, in person at the door, or by phone: 617 278 5156. Museum admission: adults $15, seniors $12, students $5, free for members.

  • Thursday, November 12, 7:00 pm – Walter Hood

    Walter Hood is an artist, designer, and educator based in Oakland, California. His studio, Hood Design, has worked on landscape, architectural, urban design, and art installation projects since 1992, including the award-winning gardens at the new De Young Museum in San Francisco. Splash Pad Park in Oakland and his work with residents of the Hill District in Pittsburgh are considered transformative landscapes. His design for the University of Buffalo’s Solar Strand incorporates 5,000 solar panels into a large public space. Hood received the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Landscape in 2009. He will speak at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on Thursday, November 12 beginning at 7 pm in Calderwood Hall. Lectures include Museum admission and require a ticket. Tickets can be reserved online at www.gardnermuseum.org, in person at the door, or by phone: 617-278-5156. Adults $15, seniors $12, students $5, free for Museum members.

  • Thursday, September 25, 7:00 pm – Gardner Museum Landscape Lecture: Eelco Hooftman

    Join the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum for its annual series of engaging and inspirational presentations from leading voices in the field of landscape architecture. Internationally renowned designers present their recent work articulating landscape as a medium of design for the social, cultural, and ecological life of the city. On Thursday, September 25, meet Eelco Hooftman. Hooftman, together with Bridget Baines, is founding partner of GROSS. MAX. landscape architects, Edinburgh. The firm’s current projects include a master plan to transform Tempelhof Freiheit, Berlin, from a 360-hectare airport into a new public park, and a linear park representing an artificial mountain range in the Central Business District of Beijing. GROSS. MAX. was awarded the 2006 European Landscape Award by Topos magazine. Landscape Lectures begin at 7 pm in Calderwood Hall. Lectures include Museum admission and require a ticket; tickets can be reserved online, in person at the door, or by phone: 617 278 5156. Museum admission: adults $15, seniors $12, students $5, free for members. To order tickets online, visit http://www.gardnermuseum.org/landscape/lectures.