Allison Nkwocha

Allison is interested in new paradigms for spatializing and communicating collective memory. Focused on cultural landscapes, her research and designs experiment with memory as a thread relating identity, presence, access, and equity through spatial interventions and storytelling. In her academic and professional work, she relates design and preservation as tools for activating place as a record and medium of our histories with the goal of enabling new experiences and visions for the future—revealing, repairing, and reimagining. Allison come to landscape architecture from a background in architectural salvage, historic restoration, youth design-build programs, and environmental studies.