SDC distinguished guest lecture: Kristin Faurest

About the event

“The Way Forward is Rarely a Straight Line: How I Fell into Landscape Architecture and Where it’s Taken Me”

Kristin Faurest explains the strange and circuitous path she took from being a journalist in Louisville, Kentucky to being a landscape architecture practitioner and professor in Hungary and Germany – and why landscape architects need to travel.

Kristin Faurest is a landscape architecture professional with 15 years of specialization in landscape identity, culturally-rooted perceptions of landscape, social sustainability of urban spaces, culturally-inclusive design, equity, and democracy in landscape design, and community engagement.

As Director of Education for the Portland Japanese Garden (a public garden), Faurest is responsible for creating multidisciplinary programs for a wide audience–efforts that have earned national recognition and awards for program excellence.

Faurest earned a PhD in Landscape Architecture from Corvinus University of Budapest, and a Master of Arts in European History from Central European University.