Laura Kendrick

I am a young designer currently working for a community design nonprofit. Through this experience, I have come to learn that all design should be done with a deep, authentic community engagement process with all those who will be affected allowed to have their voice heard. I believe that all designers have a responsibility to aim for this, including to work extra hard to amplify the voices of those who have been traditionally and institutionally ignored or devalued. I also believe in ecological science as the basis of all built environment design, and I aspire to continue learning throughout my career how to design with nature. My pipe dream is to figure out how to make urban areas feel like nature again, while still providing the resources and amenities that make cities great.