Native American Design Symposium

The Native American Sustainable Design Symposium project is a two-day event with three components led by College of Architecture Planning and Landscape Architecture (CAPLA) faculty and staff and student members of the Indigenous Society of Architecture, Planning, & Design (ISAPD), an organization “focused on increasing international knowledge, consciousness, and appreciation of Indigenous architecture, planning, and design, inclusive of landscape architecture and environmental design, in academia and the professional realm.” The project will consist of short lectures by four Native and American and Indigenous (NAI) built environment professionals presenting their innovative work through the lens of NAI sustainable design philosophies, a panel discussion moderated by two local NAI built environment professionals, and a workshop between ISAPD members, CAPLA students, and two local NAI built environment professionals. The symposium will be recorded and made available for future reference on the Native Peoples Design Coalition (NPDC) website. NAI strategies of planning and design embed philosophies such as Seven Generations Thinking, which states that development decisions today are required to consider the impacts on our descendants at least 200 years in the future. 

The Native American Sustainable Design Symposium will provide four paid student positions to help plan and run the event.