2024-05-04T13:20:16-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150136676/alison-hirsch-appointed-as-usc-s-director-of-masters-of-landscape-architecture-urbanism-program Anastasia Tokmakova 2019-05-15T11:08:00-04:00 >2019-05-15T11:08:52-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/01/01a6adfd0afe5d7003fca7a544f10739.PNG?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p><a href="https://archinect.com/uscarchitecture" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">University of Southern California School of Architecture</a>&nbsp;appointed associate professor Alison Hirsch as the new director of the Master of Landscape Architecture + Urbanism program, effective August 2019.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>As a landscape theorist, designer, and historian, Hirsch&rsquo;s work focuses on how the interpretation of sociocultural practices and marginalized histories and memories can contribute to the design of meaningful urban places. Her research areas include: cultural landscapes; spatial politics of landscape architecture; contested urban landscapes; activist design methods; practices of representation; and landscape's intersections with performance and choreography.</p> <p>Last month, Hirsch won her second&nbsp;<a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/130920/graham-foundation" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Graham Foundation</a> grant for&nbsp;<a href="http://www.grahamfoundation.org/grantees/5913-landscape-and-the-working-country-food-justice-and-landscape-ethics-in-californias-central-valley" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Landscape and &ldquo;the Working Country&rdquo;: Food Justice and Landscape Ethics in California&rsquo;s Central Valley</a>, focusing on the confluence of land, labor, transcultural settlement, mobility, and agriculture in the lower San Joaquin Valley. Her 2013 grant, resulted in&nbsp;<em>City Cho...</em></p>