Re-Imagining America’s National Parks – San Juan Island National Historical Park

Winter 2012 – BE 498/598
M W (F) 1:30 – 4:00 pm
6 credit hours
Open to all students!

Faculty:

• Ken Yocom: Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture
• Manish Chalana: Assistant Professor, Urban Design & Planning
• Tyler Sprague: PhD Candidate, Program in the Built Environment

The National Park Service is hosting an ideas competition to update their design and management guidelines to make them more pertinent to the issues related to park management and visitor experience. This course will engage interdisciplinary students and faculty in re-framing the image, narratives, and processes of San Juan Island National Historical Park to engage and serve diverse populations of visitors.

The course integrates theory and practice of historic preservation planning, landscape architecture, interpretation, and conservation to shape design visions for the Park’s evolving future. The course objectives are thus to undertake a creative, collaborative, and research-informed design process to articulate sustainable visions for San Juan Island National Historical Park.

To apply:https://catalyst.uw.edu/workspace/kyocom/25601/
Deadline: November 23, 2011

*The course credits will apply to the Historic Preservation Planning and Urban Design Certificate Programs.