Free Public Lecture: Everybody’s a Designer – Urban Design and Trans-Disciplinary Thinking

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Free Public Lecture
Lecture presented by City of Raleigh Appearance Commission

Everybody’s a Designer – Urban Design and Trans-Disciplinary Thinking
Thursday, March 15 | 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Location: VAE Raleigh, 309 W. Martin Street, Raleigh, NC 27601

Presenter:
Presented by Jess Zimbabwe, AIA, AICP, Rose Center for Public Leadership in Land Use

Description:
The complex relationships of built infrastructure, natural systems, and social systems can produce a stronger, more productive, more resilient, and more beautiful city. But the roles that city governments, developers, designers, and planners have assigned themselves create frequent roadblocks to cross-disciplinary collaboration. The work of constantly reaching out, including, analyzing, translating and re-translating among bodies of experts is resource-intensive. But if we want a more equitable practice, transdisciplinarity must become the norm.

About Jess Zimbabwe:
Jess Zimbabwe is Director of Urban Development at the National League of Cities (NLC) and founding Executive Director of the Daniel Rose Center for Public Leadership—a partnership of NLC and the Urban Land Institute. Previously, Jess was the Director of the Mayors’ Institute on City Design and Community Design Director at Urban Ecology, providing pro bono community planning and design assistance to low-income neighborhoods in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a licensed architect, certified city planner, a LEED-Accredited professional, board chair of Next City, and a member of the urban planning faculty at Georgetown University.