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This coming Tuesday, July 23, Shannon Nichol will be participating in "Planting Forward: Conversations on New Naturalism with Global Designers and Gardeners." Shannon’s virtual presentation will focus on GGN’s distinct approach to design and collaboration, including the newly launched Meadowshop initiative in the Pacific Northwest. The "Planting Forward" series is hosted by Kelly Norris, who founded the Public Horticultural Company and its New Naturalism Academy. One of the leading horticulturists of his generation, Kelly explores the intersections of people, plants, and place through ecological, site-specific design and art. Shannon’s session will be held remotely on July 23 from 4:00-5:30pm Pacific. Registration is open through July 22. Visit the series’ website to purchase tickets.

GGN is honored to have been selected to continue the important work of designing a five-acre property at Owámniyomni (St. Anthony Falls) adjacent to the Upper Lock on the Mississippi riverfront in Minneapolis. The project is under the guidance of Owámniyomni Okhódayapi and the Dakota Knowledge Keepers and in partnership with the other experts and consultants involved. Full Circle Indigenous Planning Design will provide project strategy and Tribal engagement. The Dakota Knowledge Keepers include Glenn Wasicuna, Gwen Westerman, Mona Smith, Jewell Arcoren, Ramona Kitto Stately, Travis Bush, Vanessa Goodthunder, Erin Griffin, Samantha Odegard, and Cole Redhorse Taylor. Additional firms and consultants offering design and technical support fo the project include HDR, EOR, John Koepke with Urban Ecosystems, TLAL-LI Collaborative, Loeffler, ETM and Schuler Shook. “The structure of this design team emphasizes that while transforming the physical land at Owámniyomni will be important, restoring relationships to the land, Dakota culture, and language are at the heart of this work,” said Barry Hand, Owámniyomni Okhódayapi program director. “This project is rooted in the idea that what is most important about Owámniyomni is already here. Now is the time for the cultural and environmental restoration that have always been one and the same for the Dakota who know this place best,” said David Malda, Design Principal, GGN. Susan Du reports on the project in the Star Tribune: https://lnkd.in/gFa2Sujc

We are hiring a marketing coordinator to join our small, creative team of visual communication and publication wizards/collaborators. Alternative paths and oddballs always welcome. https://lnkd.in/gNCmuKVn

Rodrigo Abela is participating as a Resource Team Member in the 4th Annual Mayors' Institute on City Design (MICD) Just City Mayoral Fellowship program. The program is in partnership with the Just City Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Over a semester-long program, the Lab’s Just City Index frames dynamic presentations and dialogues with experts in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, art activism, housing, and public policy. Throughout the Fellowship, mayors and their staff identify how injustices manifest in the social, economic, and physical infrastructures of their cities and develop manifestos of action for their communities, applying the language and tactics of racial justice to the neighborhood’s future. The 2024 MICD Just City Mayoral Fellows are: Allentown, PA Mayor Matthew Tuerk; Dearborn, MI Mayor Abdullah H. Hammoud; Lima, OH Mayor Sharetta Smith; Long Beach, CA Mayor Rex Richardson; McMinnville, OR Mayor Remy Drabkin; Racine, WI Mayor Cory Mason; and San Rafael, CA Mayor Kate Colin. The Mayors’ Institute on City Design (MICD) is a leadership initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in Partnership with the United States Conference of Mayors. Since 1986, the Mayors’ Institute has helped transform communities through design by preparing mayors to be the chief urban designers of their cities. Learn more at www.micd.org/jcmf

GGN is excited to be seeking Project Designers with a focus on drawing through ideas and visualizing design options, from schematic through construction detailing. Learn more at www.ggnltd.com/jobs .

From the competition stage to present day construction, the design for India Basin Shoreline Park has kept at its core the need to reconnect a waterfront that has been marked by industrial use and inaccessible to the adjacent Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood. Linking the park into the adjacent, upland neighborhood and designing walkways and piers that connect with existing and future hillside stairways and improved street crossings, the park will become a space that is an extension of daily life for the local community.⁣ ⁣ sketches from Shannon Nichol renderings by the talented GGN team, a 2016-present collaboration Jensen Architects San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department A. Philip Randolph Institute

Always a pleasure spending time out at Oxbow Farm & Conservation Center and supporting their work to steward our natural resources and to teach support others to do the same. 👏

🏆🏗️ What a special night it was for the University of Washington Health Sciences Education Building team at DBIA's 2023 National Design-Build Awards ceremony! The project team won a National Award of Merit (educational facilities), a National Award of Excellence (educational facilities), and a Best in Teaming award! The project also finished as a finalist for Design-Build Institute of America's Project of the Year. Plus, Jeannie Natta and the UW's Project Delivery Group and facilities group were recognized with the 2023 Enlightened Owner award.  Congratulations to the entire risk-reward team: Client: University of Washington Builder: Lease Crutcher Lewis Architect and interior design: The Miller Hull Partnership, LLP Medical education architect: The S/L/A/M Collaborative (SLAM) Civil, structural engineering: KPFF Consulting Engineers Mechanical and plumbing engineering: PAE HVAC/plumbing: Hermanson Company Landscape architect: GGN Electrical engineering: Hargis Engineers Electrical: Cochran, Inc Framing and drywall: Performance Contracting, Inc. (PCI) Fire protection: Patriot Fire Protection Elevators: KONE Glazing: Sargent Cladding: Northshore Exteriors Inc. And congratulations to all the other award winners, who champion design-build excellence every day. #DBIACon

On October 30 at the ASLA 2023 Conference, David Malda will be participating in a field study alongside key project collaborators to share the Falls Initiative, a Native-led process to transform Owámniyomni (St. Anthony Falls) in Minneapolis. The group will lead a walk-and-talk through the site and offer attendees an opportunity to: * Learn about Owámniyomni, the history of this place, and ongoing relationships with Dakota and Native people. * Learn about the Falls Initiative as a Native-led approach to place that connects broader advocacy, education, and values, with guide the future of Owámniyomni. * Learn about the importance of models of ownership, operations, and programming rooted in Native values to support the Falls Initiative vision. *Share lessons that can strengthen relationships between designers of all backgrounds and Native-led initiatives. Thank you to the incredible group leading this talk: Kjersti Duval @ Studio Civic Shelley Buck @ Friends of the Falls John A. Koepke @ University of Minnesota Mona Smith @ Allies LLC and David Malda @ GGN

We are excited to share a new initiative at GGN: Meadowshop. We believe that everyone should be able to live immersed in authentic, local nature that tells the true story of their home. We formed Meadowshop to make this site-specific, local landscape more accessible to people who live in our home region of the Pacific Northwest. ⁣ ⁣ At the same time as offering all-native residential garden services, Meadowshop is a community of much-needed demonstration and testing plots across the city and region. Together, many small plots can collectively grow our region’s knowledge of best practices with these under-utilized but garden-worthy plants. ⁣ We’re excited to share more as Meadowshop grows and to work with homeowners in the Pacific Northwest who long to transform their outdoor space into an all-native garden that is exuberant and intriguing throughout the seasons, supporting local insect, bird, and wildlife populations, and richly instructive as an example of the plants that have long called this region home.⁣ #nativeplants #pnwnativeplants