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Shane Coen: Context, Form, and Equity

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

6:30–7:30 p.m. ET | Online

Founder and CEO of Coen+Partners, Shane Coen aims to redefine how we interact with people and place. His firm’s ethos was founded on the commitment to always help define and push the boundaries of landscape architecture to bring earth and cultural equity to the forefront. The firm continues that journey today, leading and collaborating on some of the most complex urban and ex-urban landscapes in the world.

Coen will illustrate Coen+Partners’ design evolution through different project scales, highlighting works including—Heart of the City in Rochester, Minnesota, a car-centric thoroughfare reimagined into a vibrant streetscape; Peavey Plaza in the City of Minneapolis; an iconic center revitalized to provide tranquility and accessibility for the community; and Sports Boulevard, a transformed transit corridor that promotes wellness and social exchange in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

He will also share insight into an equity-based urban planning project, Healing Landscapes, which proposes a new lens and method for planning open space systems in our cities.

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Image: Peavey Plaza in Minneapolis, MN, ©Coen+Partners

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Shane Coen

As Founder and CEO of Coen+Partners, Shane Coen loves the moment an idea is formed. It may come from research, past experience, visiting spaces or instinct. He is a teacher, mentor, and collaborator. He has taught at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and lectures extensively. Coen recognized throughout the world for his and the firm’s commitment to a process that celebrates the social and environmental context of a project from start to completion. He is also a recipient of the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian National Design Award.

Image: ©Coen+Partners

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