Hen’jerink!

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

6PM

301 Crosby Hall

This first event for the Spring 2016 Public Programs is Hen’jerink!, part of our ’Shipping Architecture program. 

‘Shipping Architecture is an intermittent series of events that pairs speakers whose work may have as-yet unknown relationships. We refer to the colloquial use of the term “’shipping,” which conjures relationships, celebrity couples or imaginary ones — here serving as a structure that is playful but also productive of new discourse.

Ron Henderson, FASLA, is Professor and Director of the Landscape Architecture Program at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago and Founding Principal of L+A Landscape Architecture. He has held previous academic appointments at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Pennsylvania State University, Tsinghua University, Roger Williams University,and Rhode Island School of Design.

He is the author of The Gardens of Suzhou, published by University of Pennsylvania Press, and a frequent contributor of articles on landscapes and gardens of Asia and other topics. He lectures widely on topics that include: Long and Narrow, Urbanism in the Absence of Water, Garden Urbanism, and most recently The Driverless City Project. He was a 2012 US-Japan Friendship Commission / National Endowment for the Arts Creative Artist Grant recipient and is a Fellow of the American Society of Landsape Architects.

List of key built projects by Henderson: 

• Gardens of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston MA
• City Walk, Providence RI
• Landfill Garden, Providence RI
• Memorial to the Abolition of the Slave Trade, Nantes France
• Shanghai Expo 2010 China Pavilion Roof Garden Jiuzhou Qingyan, Shanghai PRC
• Yinzhou Central Park, Ningbo PRC
• Garden at Kakinokizaka, Tokyo Japan

Originally from the Netherlands, Paula Meijerink is a landscape architect and co-founder of WANTED landscape, associate professor of landscape architecture at OSU’s Knowlton School and has lectured and published internationally. Her achievements are documented in 2G Dossier, Hybrids, Only With Nature, Reading the American Landscape and Art in Public and she published On Asphalt. She was associate professor and director of the School of Landscape Architecture at the University of Montreal.

Her engagement with landscape is from a political perspective and she sees the act of design as an agent for change. For example, she initiated On Asphalt, an ongoing effort to inspire cultural change in asphalt spaces as more engaged public landscapes and improved ecological systems. 

Meijerink received her ING degree from Larenstein in The Netherlands, she studied philosophy at the University of Utrecht and received her Master in Landscape Architecture degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She was senior designer and principal at Martha Schwartz’s office in Cambridge, assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Gerald Sheff Visiting Professor at McGill University.