Call to Action

"Call to Action." Journal of Architectural Education, 74(2), pp. 182–183

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Notes

1 Elizabeth Meyer, “Site Citations: The Grounds of Modern Landscape Architecture,” in Site Matters: Design Concepts, Histories, and Strategies, ed. Carol J. Burns and Andrea Kahn (London: Routledge, 2005), 93. For more on site in the spatial design fields, see generally Burns and Kahn, Site Matters.

2 Emily Wettstein, “Personal Representation History,” Assignment for the “Landscape Representation I” course, Harvard Graduate School of Design, September 3, 2019.

3 Metaphors vary from blank slates to “empty vessels,” as in Paulo Freire’s description of the “banking model” of education. See Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (New York: Continuum, 1970), 72.

4 bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (New York: Routledge, 1994), 177.

5 hooks, 40.

6 See Donna Haraway, “Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective,” Feminist Studies 14, no. 3 (Autumn 1988): 575–99. Jane Rendell connects Haraway’s ideas to site and architectural pedagogy in Torsten Lange et al., “Making Trouble to Stay With: Architecture and Feminist Pedagogies,” Field Journal 7, no. 1 (November 2017): 96.

7 See Robert Smithson, “A Provisional Theory of Non-Sites,” in Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings, ed. Jack Flam (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), 364.

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Emily Wettstein

Emily Wettstein is a design critic in landscape architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), where she teaches studio and representation. With a background in architecture, art, and documentation, her work explores overlaps among the built environment’s parallel disciplines. Her current projects share a foundational interest in the centering of marginalized sites and subjects, focusing on the New Jersey Meadowlands and the advancement of inclusivity in design pedagogy. She holds both a Master of Architecture and a Master of Landscape Architecture degrees from the Harvard GSD.