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Tag: Studio Zewde

  • Friday, October 23, 11:00 am – 12:00 noon Eastern – Ecologies of Memory: Landscapes as Story Networks, Online

    In the context of a changing climate, clarified social and political tensions, and rapid urban development, an understanding of ecologies of memory can offer creative departures for contemporary design practice. The Ecologies of Memory framework explores stakeholders’ individual and collective stories of place to inform dynamic landscape design. Sara Zewde will share recent design work of Studio Zewde across a range of United States geographies using this framework. This American Horticultural Society webinar will take place October 23 at 11 am Eastern, and is $15 for AHS members, $20 for nonmembers. Register at https://ahsgardening.org/ahs-live-ecologies-of-memory-landscapes-as-story-networks/

    Sara Zewde is founding principal of Studio Zewde, a design firm practicing landscape architecture, urbanism, and public art. Named to TIME Magazine’s TIME100 Next, Architectural Digest’s AD100, and a United States Artists Fellow, her work is celebrated for design methods that sync culture, ecology, and craft. In parallel with practice, Sara serves as Associate Professor of Practice at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She holds a Master of Landscape Architecture from Harvard GSD, a Master of City Planning from MIT, and a BA in Sociology and Statistics from Boston University. She is also currently writing a book on Frederick Law Olmsted’s travels through the Slave South, to be published by Simon & Schuster in 2027.

  • Tuesday, May 17, 11:00 am – 12:00 noon – Landscapes of Memory and Meaning, Online

    This year marks the bicentennial of Frederick Law Olmsted’s birth, a towering figure whose work continues to benefit communities nationwide. Join the New York Botanical Garden and landscape architect Sara Zewde on May 17 at 11 am as she discusses Olmsted’s often overlooked journey through the Southern slave states, a period that shaped his understanding of the many ways landscape, class, ecology, and power intersect. This lecture will take place online. Registered students will receive login instructions. $23 for NYBG members, $26 for nonmembers. Register HERE.

    By exploring the four months she spent retracing Olmsted’s steps and her own deep archival research, Zewde examines the extent to which Southern landscapes today memorialize history and what that reveals about modern power dynamics.

    She will also discuss her own design work such as Genesee Street in Houston, TX and Graffiti Pier in Philadelphia, PA which will serve to illustrate just how transformative landscapes can be.

    Sara Zewde, founding principal of Studio Zewde, upends traditional assumptions of what public spaces can be with her unique blend of landscape architecture, urbanism, public art, archival research, and community engagement. A Harvard University Graduate School of Design professor, Zewde has been named a United States Artists Fellow and an Emerging Voice by the Architectural League of New York.