Talks+Press — Alison Bick Hirsch

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Public Talks (various recorded)

The Cultural Landscape Foundation ‘Soak It Up’ conference, Los Angeles, Dec. 2025 (“Hydrological Imaginaries: Southern California Water Histories & Landscape Futures”)
Huntington Library & Gardens public lecture, Nov. 2024 (“Land, Loss, Liberated Futures Along Phantom Shores”)
Huntington Library & Gardens public lecture, Nov. 2024 (“Land, Loss, Liberated Futures Along Phantom Shores”)
Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) Fellowship for Innovation & Leadership, June 2021 (“Food Justice & Landscape Ethics in California’s Central Valley”)
University of Guelph Landscape Architecture Speaker Series, October 2021 (“Seeking Landscape Justice”)
University of Southern California Ground Series, March 2021 (“Working Grounds”)
Northumbria University, Performing Architecture series led by Dr Jiayi Jin, Nov. 2020 (“The Performative Landscape: Frameworks for Civic and Embodied Action”)
Seattle Channel, Seattle Parks and Recreation and Freeway Park Association, Oct 2019 (Expert Panel on enhancements to Seattle Freeway Park)

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Press (various)

USC Architecture, “Advanced Design Studio, Earthseeding Altadena, Launches the Landscape Justice Initiative’s Next Project,” 2026

Huntington Library & Gardens, Welcoming the 2024-2025 Huntington Research Fellows, 2024

Interview in Save As podcast, “Allensworth: The Past and Future of a Black Agrarian Utopia,” 2024

USC Architecture, “Landscape Justice Initiative addresses pressing environmental challenges in Los Angeles and beyond,” 2024

USC Architecture, “USC Architecture students work on community plan to revitalize Allensworth,” 2023

USC Today, Gustavo Solis, ”To create a better California, these landscape architects design inclusive public spaces for all,” 2021

Interviewed in Patrick Sisson, “The Lab in the Backyard,” Landscape Architecture Magazine, Oct 2021

USC Architecture, “USC Architecture appoints Alison Hirsch Director of Master of Landscape Architecture + Urbanism program,” 2019

USC Architecture, “Faculty members awarded grants by Graham Foundation,” 2019

New Books Network Podcast, Peter Ekman, “City Choreographer by Alison B. Hirsch,” 2018

USC Architecture, “Alison Hirsch Named Rome Prize Fellow,” 2017

American Academy in Rome, 2017-2018 Rome Prize Fellows, 2017

KCRW, Interview with Avishay Artsy on Lawrence Halprin, “Design and Architecture,” 2017

Los Angeles Review of Books, Robby Herbst, “Review of City Choreographer,” 2015 (many other books reviews in academic journals)

USC Architecture, “Architecture Author Landscapes a Legend,” 2014

USC Architecture, “Architects’ dilemma on memorials: forget and heal, or confront and grieve,” 2013

Alison in Media (various)

Alison B. Hirsch, “Field Notes on Repair,” Places Journal (2024)

Interview with Alison B. Hirsch by Andrea Torreblanca, “Viewpoints: A Timeless Way to Build,” INSITE Journal (Fall 2024) (also in print)

Interview with Alison B. Hirsch, “Design for Spatial Justice,” Rural Futures Collaborative, Rural Dialogues, (April 2023)

Alison B. Hirsch “Field Notes on Design Activism” (invited piece), Places Journal (2022)

Alison B. Hirsch “Field Notes on Pandemic Teaching 4” (invited piece), Places Journal (April 2020)

Interview with Alison B. Hirsch, Thaisa Way, Sara Zewde, “on women in landscape architecture, past to present,” The Cultural Landscape Foundation, Landslide 2020: “Women Take the Lead”

Interview with Alison Hirsch on Angela Danadjieva, “Women Take the Lead” Landslide 2020 series, The Cultural Landscape Foundation

Interview with Alison B. Hirsch by Andres Diaz, “Landscape Architecture and the Health of the San Joaquin Valley,” arcCA Digest (“The Health Issue, 2019)