2024 ASLA COMMUNICATIONS AWARD OF HONOR: What’s Out There Guide to African American Cultural Landscapes by The Cultural Landscape Foundation

“历史影像、丰富的场地选择与清晰的定位地图共同造就了一部杰出的作品。”
– 2024年ASLA评审委员会评语

“The historic images and the broad group of sites along with a strong location map make this a strong product.”
– 2024 Awards Jury

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What’s Out There Guide to African American Cultural Landscapes ｜ The Cultural Landscape Foundation

项目陈述
Project Statement

这部独特且精心甄选的数字指南由文化景观基金会（TCLF）打造，并于今年二月正式推出。收录近150处场地和30位人物传记，并持续扩展，其通过丰富的视觉资料，深入记录、阐释并呈现与非裔美国人文化生活方式相关的景观，其中不乏鲜为人知的历史场所。该指南不仅让这一研究领域日益丰富的知识更便于公众获取，也提升了这些历史遗址的可见度和文化价值。同时，它提供了一个开放的平台，以激发研究、促发讨论，并共享这些交织相连的历史脉络，让更多人关注并探索非裔美国人的文化景观遗产。

This unique, carefully vetted, profusely illustrated, ever growing digital guide to African American cultural landscapes was created by The Cultural Landscape Foundation (“TCLF”) and launched in February with nearly 150 sites and 30 biographies, and which documents, contextualizes, and highlights landscapes, some unknown, associated with African American cultural lifeways. The guide will make this study area’s growing body of knowledge more accessible to the public and raise the visibility and value of historical developments reflected in the specific sites where history happened. It is also meant to provoke discussion and inspire research by providing an accessible platform to host, reveal, and share these interconnected histories.

▲《美国非裔文化景观指南》登陆页面：该不断扩展的指南首发时包含近150个地点、30个传记、一段介绍和多个主题，提升了历史发生地的价值，Landing page for “What’s Out There Guide to African American Cultural Landscapes”: The ever-growing guide launched with nearly 150 sites, 30 bios, an introduction, and themes, raising the value of sites where history happened © The Cultural Landscape Foundation

项目说明
Project Narrative

2024年2月，文化景观基金会（TCLF）发布了数字版《美国非裔文化景观指南》（以下简称“指南”），系统性地记录、阐释并突出展现与非裔美国人文化生活方式相关的景观。该指南是TCLF自2020年启动的“种族与空间”倡议的一部分，该倡议贯穿于TCLF所有项目和倡导工作，旨在揭示那些长期被忽视、鲜为人知的文化景观及其承载的历史。

该指南整合至TCLF精心策划、可搜索的“What’s Out There”（WOT）数据库，该数据库包含超过2,700个景观档案、1,400篇人物传记以及14,000余张图片，并支持GPS定位，针对智能手机优化，鼓励公众及景观设计师探索身边的文化景观。每个景观档案均包含一篇250至350字的介绍文章，并配有平均十张高分辨率照片和视频，以生动呈现场地的历史背景及景观特征。

指南的发布反映了非裔美国人在美国文化景观遗产中的历史，正受到越来越多的公众关注与学术研究，包括深入研究、论文、学术出版物等。近年来，这些研究揭示了大量被忽视、遗忘甚至被刻意抹去的人物、场所和事件，修正了历史叙事中的偏差，并让那些沉寂已久的故事重现于世。指南旨在让这一不断增长的知识体系更易为公众获取，同时提升这些历史场所的可见度和文化价值。此外，它还为研究者和公众提供了一个开放平台，以激发讨论、启发研究，并讲述这些交织相连的历史。

指南的框架围绕九个历史主题解析文化景观。其中六个主题，包括“重建时期”“地下铁路”与“民权运动”，基于美国国家公园管理局国家历史地标计划的研究框架。而“奴役历史”“纪念与治愈”及“杰出设计师与塑造者”三个主题，则是专门针对本指南新增的文化景观研究领域。

指南于2024年黑人历史月推出后，受到全国、地区及地方媒体的广泛关注，相关报道见于Yahoo! News、《建筑师报》（Architect’s Newspaper）、Archinect、World Landscape Architecture、《Surface》杂志、《景观建筑》杂志、《LAND》及多个地方媒体。

作为持续推进公共参与的一部分，TCLF正通过官方网站及定向媒体宣传，广泛征集公众建议，以扩展指南所涵盖的场地和人物。此外，在未来两年内，TCLF计划新增100个景观，进一步提升那些长期被忽视、甚至被抹去的文化遗址的价值，并为景观设计师提供契机，助力这些遗址的重新发现、纪念与治愈。这些承载着深厚历史记忆的场所，是美国文化景观拼图中不可或缺的一部分，等待着被重新认识和揭示。

▲《美国非裔文化景观指南》介绍页面：提供历史背景、九个组织主题的旁注，并征集读者推荐新增的地点和传记，Introduction for “What’s Out There African American Cultural Landscapes Guide”: The introduction provides historic context, a sidebar with nine organizational themes, and it solicits reader input for sites and bios to be added © The Cultural Landscape Foundation

▲《美国非裔文化景观指南》主题页面：九个组织主题简要介绍了主要概念、基本背景，并激发进一步研究，Theme Page for “What’s Out There African American Cultural Landscapes Guide”: Nine organizational themes aim to briefly introduce major concepts, provide basic background, and inspire further research © The Cultural Landscape Foundation

▲“纪念与治愈”主题登陆页面：包括简短介绍以及通向“纪念”地点的链接，这是景观建筑日益关注的创新领域，Landing Page for the “Commemoration and Healing” Theme: Includes a short introduction and links to “commemorative” sites, an area of increasing focus of innovative landscape architecture © The Cultural Landscape Foundation

▲“纪念与治愈”主题包含“乔治·佩里·弗洛伊德广场”：该典型地点条目包含250-350字描述、地图及媒体画廊的图片链接，The “Commemoration and Healing” Theme Includes “George Perry Floyd Square”: This representative site entry includes a 250-350-word description, map, and link to media gallery with images © The Cultural Landscape Foundation

▲“乔治·佩里·弗洛伊德广场”媒体画廊：十张照片和一段视频为该地点提供更丰富的背景信息，“George Perry Floyd Square” Media Gallery: These ten photographs and one video illustrate the site entry, providing additional context © The Cultural Landscape Foundation

▲“非裔美国人先驱”登陆页面：目前包含近30位景观设计师、建筑师、园艺师、艺术家及其他人物的传记链接，Landing page for “African American Pioneers”: Currently contains links to bios of nearly 30 landscape architects, architects, gardeners, artists, and others © The Cultural Landscape Foundation

▲“非裔美国人景观”登陆页面：目前包含近150个景观的历史和照片链接，Landing Page for “African American Landscape”: Currently contains links to nearly 150 landscapes with histories and photographs © The Cultural Landscape Foundation

▲互动GPS地图贯穿整个指南：用户可以通过互动地图放大到特定地区、城市或地点，点击图片或名称即可访问相应条目，Interactive, GPS-enabled Maps Appear Throughout the Guide: Interactive maps enable users to zoom to a specific region, city, or site. Clicking on each image or name, users access each respective entry © The Cultural Landscape Foundation

▲“提升设计师与塑造者”主题包括“安妮·斯宾塞之家与花园博物馆”：创新结合文本、摄影和视频，讲述为非裔美国作家和活动家提供庇护的场所，The “Elevating Designers and Shapers” Theme Includes the “Anne Spencer House & Garden Museum”: An innovative combination of text, photography, and video about a site that provided a haven to African American writers and activists © The Cultural Landscape Foundation

▲“安妮·斯宾塞”传记条目：哈莱姆文艺复兴时期的诗人、园艺师、活动家及教师，通过文章、照片和视频共同提升安妮·斯宾塞及其花园的知名度与价值，“Pioneer” Entry for Anne Spencer: Harlem Renaissance Poet, Gardener, Activist, and Teacher: The entry includes a biographical essay, photographs, and a video, collectively raising the visibility and value of Anne Spencer and her garden © The Cultural Landscape Foundation

▲沃尔特·胡德的视频采访补充了“Graball Landing”地点条目：多个条目配有景观设计师、家族后代及传承者的视频，提供更多的历史背景，Walter Hood Video Interview Complements the “Graball Landing” Site Entry: Example of videos with landscape architects, family descendants and kin-keepers that accompany several entries © The Cultural Landscape Foundation

▲持续免费的虚拟“种族与空间对话”补充了该指南：例如TCLF YouTube频道上的网络研讨会，讨论景观、种族及空间不平等问题，Ongoing, Free, Virtual, “Race and Space Conversations” Complement the Guide: Example of a complementary webinar on TCLF’s YouTube channel, with moderated discussions about landscapes, race, and spatial inequities © The Cultural Landscape Foundation

▲项目发布与媒体报道：全国、地区和地方媒体广泛关注该指南发布，包括Yahoo! News、《景观建筑杂志》等，Project Roll Out and Media Coverage: Example of national, regional, and local media coverage in yahoo!news, Landscape Architecture Magazine, and many others following the Guide’s launch © The Cultural Landscape Foundation

▲4RM+ULA的Nathan Johnson在“美国非裔文化景观指南”活动期间带领参观“朗多纪念广场”：多个地点成为TCLF组织的专家导览重点，提升了这些地点的知名度和价值，Nathan Johnson of 4RM+ULA Leads a Tour of “Rondo Commemorative Plaza” During “What’s Out There” Event: Several sites have also been the focus of free, expert led tours organized by TCLF, which raise the visibility and value of each © Photo by Isaac Hase-Raney, Courtesy The Cultural Landscape Foundation

▲TCLF表示该指南“只是开始”，并邀请公众推荐要新增的人物和地点：页面提供下载表格，收集公众的推荐意见，将影响未来的指南扩展，Acknowledging that the Guide is “Just the Start” TCLF Asks the Public to Recommend People and Places to Add: The page links to a form for people to download and fill out. The recommendations will inform future additions to the guide © The Cultural Landscape Foundation

Project Narrative

In February 2024, The Cultural Landscape Foundation (“TCLF”) launched the digital “What’s Out There Guide to African American Cultural Landscapes” (“Guide”), which documents, contextualizes, and highlights those landscapes associated with African American cultural lifeways. The guide is part of TCLF’s broader “Race and Space” initiative, created in 2020, that has been implemented across all TCLF programming and advocacy initiatives to reveal
the stories of these often invisible and largely unrecognized cultural landscapes and lifeways.

The Guide is also nested within TCLF’s carefully vetted, searchable What’s Out There (“WOT”) database, which features more than 2,700 landscape profiles, 1,400 biographies, and 14,000 images. The GPS-enabled database is optimized for smartphones and encourages users – from landscape architects to the public — to explore nearby cultural landscapes. Each landscape profile includes a 250- to 350-word essay and on average ten high-resolution photographs and videos that collectively convey the site’s history and landscape features.

The Guide recognizes that the history of African American experiences within our shared cultural landscape legacy has been and continues to be the subject of increasing public interest and engagement and the focus of in-depth research, dissertations, scholarly publications, and other forms of intellectual inquiry. What has been unearthed – in both a literal and figurative sense – has opened portals to unknown and/or forgotten people, places, and events, correcting historic inaccuracies, and making evident that which has too often been purposefully erased. The Guide aims to make this growing body of knowledge more accessible to the public, while also raising the visibility and value of the historical developments reflected in the specific sites where history happened. The Guide is also meant to provoke discussion and inspire research by providing an accessible platform to host, reveal, and tell these interconnected histories.

The Guide’s overarching organizational framework explicates landscapes through nine separate historical themes. Six themes, including “Reconstruction,” “The Underground Railroad,” and “The Civil Rights Movement,” are codified frameworks developed and recognized by the National Park Service’s National Historic Landmarks program. Three themes (“Enslavement”, “Commemoration and Healing”, and “Elevating Designers and Shapers”) were developed specifically for this cultural landscape focused guide.

The rollout during National Black History Month in 2024 drew national, regional, and local media attention including coverage in yahoo!news, Architect’s Newspaper, Archinect, World Landscape Architecture, Surface Magazine, Landscape Architecture magazine, LAND, and numerous local outlets.

Significantly, as part of the ongoing public engagement process, TCLF is actively soliciting recommendations via its website and targeted media outreach for additional sites/people to include in the Guide. Moreover, looking ahead, TCLF is committed to adding 100 sites during the next two years to the Guide, while also elevating the value of those invisible, and often erased sites, providing avenues for landscape architects to contribute to their rediscovery, healing and commemoration. These forgotten places and cultural lifeways, embodied with power of place that is waiting to be revealed, are part of the American mosaic of cultural landscapes.

Project Credits
Charles A. Birnbaum, FASLA FAAR, President and CEO, The Cultural Landscape Foundation
Nord Wennerstrom, Director of Communications, The Cultural Landscape Foundation
Justin Clevenger, Visual Content Director, The Cultural Landscape Foundation
Aileen Beringer, Managing Director, The Cultural Landscape Foundation
Allan Greller, Project Manager, The Cultural Landscape Foundation
Barrett Doherty, Photographer, Videographer, Editor – Barrett Doherty Images
Celia Carnes, Project Manager, The Cultural Landscape Foundation
Dena Tasse-Winter, Writer, Editor
Jacqueline Shin, Writer, Editor
Caroline Craddock, Writer
Erica Schapiro-Sakashita, Writer

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