Course Description: 

The Capital Cascades History and Culture Trail project features artistic and cultural installations in the built environment that share tangible and intangible histories of legacy African American communities in Tallahassee, FL. How are African American communities preserving, interpreting, and sharing their community stories? This session will share best practices for grassroots research methods, centering diversity and inclusion in a project, engagement best practices, inclusive-oriented preservation, and tactics to physically memorialize community history in the built environment.

Learning Objectives: 

• Understand how to identify cultural legacies within their community
• Learn about a community agency initiative to represent cultural legacies in the built environment
• Learn how to create a public engagement plan and strategies for collecting community input
• Demonstrate the synthesis of grassroots research and community engagement to create artistic and cultural narratives
• Provide case study representing the synthesis of research and community engagement outcomes in the built environment

This course will provide 1 Continuing Education Credit

Florida DBPR Course Number: 13287 (Optional)

**If you would like CE credit, please be sure to enter your LA Number in your profile.

Meet the Speakers:

Tatiana Daguillard

Ms. Daguillard, a two-time NTHP Diversity Fellow, is a historian and preservationist focusing on communicating cultural memory in the built environment to create spaces for healing, knowledge exchange, and community uplift.

Charlie Johnson, PLA, ASLA

Charlie has 20 years of experience specializing in park design, urban design, landscape architecture, permitting, and site construction observation. His strengths include environmental analysis, design & planning, public presentations, design workshops, municipal plan approvals and permitting, cost estimating, and construction documentation and observation. He has provided these services for municipalities and urban communities, recreation facilities and parks, mixed use/urban infill sites, and colleges and universities for two decades.