David Brian Williams Visiting Artist Talk: Mary Pat McGuire
Friday, April 11 , 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm CDT
Visiting Artist Mary Pat McGuire will give a public talk on Friday, April 11 from 12-1 p.m. at the University Galleries. The talk is free and open to the public.
This talk is part of the David Brian Williams School of Creative Technologies Visiting Artist Series.
Mary Pat McGuire is a landscape architect and associate professor at the University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign and serves as Dean’s Fellow for Research in the College of Fine & Applied Arts. Her research and teaching in landscape architecture is focused on design transformation of the material, topographic, infrastructural, and social ground of cities and regions. She engages with NGOs, CBOs, scientists, engineers, municipalities, schools, and communities to support interdisciplinary, place-based approaches to complex urban design problems and climate change. In 2022, McGuire formed Depave Chicago to support communities in actively removing and transforming pavement into healing and life-supportive landscapes, from which their pilot project design was exhibited in the 5th Chicago Architecture Biennial “This is a Rehearsal.”
Mary Pat’s collaborations and research have been supported by the Walder Foundation, National Sea Grant (NOAA), US-EPA, Wright-Ingraham Institute, Landscape Architecture Foundation, Morton Arboretum, University of Illinois Research Board, and Il Extension, among others. Publications can be found in The Plan Journal, Landscape Journal, Journal of Landscape Architecture, Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability, Topos, Grist, Next City, and her co-edited book FRESH WATER: Design Research for Inland Water Territories (AR+D, 2019). McGuire earned her Master of Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia.
Images from Depave Chicago Project One: The Montessori School of Englewood – https://www.depavechicago.org/montessori
