01/19/2021: LIVE INTERACTIVE WEBINAR, Designing for the Public during a Pandemic, Tuesday, January 19, 2021, 12pm-2pm Eastern

$198.00

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Due to the challenges of a national health pandemic, our public spaces need to be redesigned with the focus to keep us safe and provide much-needed interaction between people and nature. This two-hour webinar will focus on how we can rethink the interior and exterior areas in which we congregate. Discussion will be on how to design public spaces to function healthier while still allowing for much needed interaction. The webinar will include examples of interdisciplinary collaboration, where architects, urban planners and health professionals engage together to create a cohesive strategy that allows for people to stay safe while interacting in the public realm. Topics will cover both partial and temporary measures that impact the public built space with case studies highlighting best practices.

Note: This is a live webinar delivered via GoToWebinar. Session instructions will be emailed to you 24-48 hours prior to the webinar and the morning of the webinar. If you have not received your instructions for any reason please call RedVector Client Support (1-866-546-1212) the day of the event. Webinars are live and interactive. Students will have the ability to directly interact with and ask questions of the presenter.

Objectives SME

Course Objectives

Recognize the need for changing the current design of public spaces to adapt to health pandemic realities
Explain the importance of implementing interdisciplinary collaboration
Develop reasoning to understand which design practices will best provide healthy gathering spaces within our communities
Detail important case studies of healthy public realm designs that have been proven through implementation

SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT: Rumanda Young, Ph.D.

Dr. Young is a Registered Landscape Architect (RLA) in the state of Texas and a Certified Planner (AICP). She holds a bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture (BLA) from the University of Arkansas, a master’s degree in city and regional planning (MCRP) with environmental planning emphasis from the University of Texas at Arlington, and a Ph.D. in urban planning and public policy. Dr. Young also spent time abroad in Cheltenham, England at the University of Gloucestershire focusing on sustainable development practices, environmental planning, and resource management.

Dr. Young has eight years of private practice experience, six of which working with the firm Carter & Burgess, Inc. She was involved in a variety of work including a wide range of park and recreational planning and design projects. Landscape Architectural experience ranges from preparation of detail site design plans, inventory and analysis documents, park, recreation and open space master plans, city-wide comprehensive plans, interpretive prospectus documents, construction document preparation, and preparation of grant applications and rezoning applications for cities throughout Texas, Louisiana, North Carolina and Oklahoma.

Dr. Young currently works as a Military Master Planner with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in the Planning, Environmental, and Regulatory Branch. Dr. Young is involved in a variety of work including a wide range of military planning, programming, and design projects. Project Management experience ranges from installation design guides to campus master plans. Projects also focus on the impacts of development on human health and the environment, and improvements through better siting, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of military projects.

Dr. Young is also an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, School of Architecture. She teaches master’s level landscape architecture design studio course(s).