Samantha Solano

Samantha’s scholarship engages with revealing unrepresented narratives overlooked throughout landscape architecture discourse. Her work interrogates two main streams—arid territories and the social, political, and cultural values that have led to the mismanagement of desert lands, and the empowerment of design, environmental, and racial justice narratives in practice, the profession, and the academy. Her research and design methodologies are centered on using critical mapping as a means of revealing unrecognized, unformalized, and unrepresented relationships hidden throughout the landscape.