Last Event: Friday April 12 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

IGD Development Reimagined with Maria Rosario

Arts, Culture, and Decolonizing Development

The third talk in the IGD Development Reimagined series will explore the role of arts, culture, and design as strategies for working with developing communities with guest speaker, Maria Rosario Jackson, PhD. Focusing on strategies in the emerging field of Creative Placemaking, Jackson will discuss the importance of leveraging arts, culture and creativity as methods for serving a community’s needs while utilizing local assets to create broad, systemic change that addresses latent power and equity issues while enhancing the quality of place.
Refreshments will be provided.
Maria Rosario Jackson
Maria Rosario Jackson:  
Maria Rosario Jackson’s expertise is in comprehensive community revitalization, systems change, arts and culture in communities and dynamics of race and ethnicity. She’s worked widely with philanthropy and governments advising on strategy, program design, research, learning and evaluation. She’s an Institute Professor with a joint appointment in the Herberger Institute of Design and the Arts and the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions. Prior, she was with the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. for 18 years.

College of Design North, Bridge Room

For more information contact:

Clinton Reiswig
clinton.reiswig@asu.edu