{"id":1985,"date":"2025-02-25T10:15:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T15:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/cap\/?p=1985"},"modified":"2025-05-20T12:27:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T16:27:35","slug":"seeing-and-drawing-lecture-by-landscape-architect-shannon-nichol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/cap\/2025\/02\/25\/seeing-and-drawing-lecture-by-landscape-architect-shannon-nichol\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Seeing and Drawing’ lecture by landscape architect Shannon Nichol"},"content":{"rendered":"

WEDNESDAY | MAR 19 | 4PM | AB 100<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Award-winning landscape architect Shannon Nichol will speak at 4 p.m. Wednesday, March 19, in AB 100 as part of the Estopinal College of Architecture and Planning’s guest lecture series.<\/p>\n

Ms. Nichol, FASLA, PLA, LEED AP,<\/span><\/span> is a co-founder of GGN and stewards GGN\u2019s distinct approach to design and collaboration, bringing curiosity, humility, humor, and deep creativity to the firm’s projects. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Her designs \u2013 including San Francisco\u2019s India Basin Waterfront Parks, the Lurie Garden in Chicago, and the Gates Foundation Campus \u2013 are widely recognized as distinct landforms and welcoming places embedded in local history, culture, and native ecologies. Shannon\u2019s recent and current projects include the Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture, Oxbow Farm & Conservation Center, and the Seattle Residence: Native Gardens. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Lecture topic<\/strong><\/p>\n

The March 19 Ball State lecture, titled “Seeing and Drawing” is geared toward students and designers early in their careers in landscape architecture or related fields. “One of the frequent questions we encounter from young professionals is how the traditional first steps of objective site analysis and listening can translate into design that is not only contextually responsive and technically sound but also personally creative and intuitive,” Ms. Nichol writes. “Deformalizing the boundary between the existing place and your design concepts, as well as the boundary between your personal interests and your work, can help to enrich every task as well.”<\/p>\n

Referencing GGN\u2019s 25 years of work \u2013 as well as some off-piste personal studies in plant propagation and ecology \u2013 Ms. Nichol will share examples of design-driven efforts to visualize the real ground of each place. Over time, these efforts have become increasingly hands-on and intuitive.<\/p>\n

Project examples from the Lurie Garden to the Burke Museum\u2019s Camas Meadow go beyond mapping, data, and timelines and into personal interpretations, face-to-face storytelling, and, always, lots of graphite drawings on cheap printer paper.<\/p>\n

4 learning objectives<\/strong><\/p>\n