Date: January, 19th @ 4PM

Location: Lawrence Hall 115

Title of Presentation: Designing Conscious Spaces

Name of Presenter: Kimberly Garza

Presenter Title: Founder and Principal, ATLAS Lab Inc.

Presenter Biography:

Kimberly is the Founder and Principal of ATLAS Lab Inc, a woman and minority-owned, mission-driven landscape architecture, community development, and public art studio based in Sacramento, CA.  Kimberly is committed to designing, building, and advocating for conscious change in the built environment to make accessible, positive and progressive impacts on communities. She is a landscape architect, artist, and educator with fifteen years of experience working with private and public developments nationwide. Kimberly’s work has been internationally recognized, published, and exhibited, including juried selection for the Market Street Prototyping Festival, International Garden Festival in Quebec, Canada and winning proposal for the Sacramento Capitol Mall design competition. She was named 40 Under 40 Urban Innovator by NextCity.org. and 40 Under 40 Honoree by the Sacramento Business Journal. In addition to her practice, she sits on the Board of Directors for the Crocker Art Museum and is adjunct lecturer at the University of California, Davis, where she teaches advanced courses in landscape architecture. Kimberly holds a Bachelor of Arts in Landscape Architecture from UC Berkeley and a Master of Landscape Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design 

Title of Presentation: Designing Conscious Spaces

Designing Conscious Spaces is about bringing humanistic and artistic design solutions for cities that are culturally, historically, and ecologically responsive. A design process that empowers communities through accessible, inclusive, and interactive narratives embedded in the tactical world they live in. Kimberly Garza of Atlas Lab will present a new range of projects that expand from grassroots design initiatives to complex multidisciplinary projects - where the designers’ role as a listener and facilitator to elevate a community's voice and translate authentic interventions become paramount to confront pressing challenges in the built environment.