Equity and Inclusion in Green Design

This book focuses on seeing how inequity and lack of inclusion presently shows in existing spaces, how to retrofit existing spaces to correct inequity and lack of inclusion through green design, as well as design new green spaces with a focus of equity and inclusion. This includes addressing equity and inclusion focusing on people’s health, abilities, sexuality, gender, age, race, language, income, and culture which show in public and private site design, more so in the lack of equality and inclusion in green design. The effects of equity and inclusion show in multiple ways, including the lack of: Ease of access to affordable healthy food and agriculture. Community green design for people with different health and abilities. Ease of access in public and private spaces for people with different visual, walking, hearing, mobile, and learning abilities.Safe and equitable public green design for womxn and people in the LGBTQIA+ community. Green design in areas with a focus for people who are Black, Brown, and from underserved communities.Ease of access in public and private spaces for people who do not fluently understand English or the native language of the site.Green spaces in areas of people with lower economic means.Community green design for immigrants to celebrate their culture. Addressing equity and inclusion can be designed directly into sites as integral in the design process through retrofitting existing sites, as well as new site design. Exploring healthy approaches to the important topic of equality is an important step in acknowledging the lack of equity and inclusion and exploring new designs. This involves listening to people; and creatively exploring design for diversity and inclusion for health, abilities, sexuality, gender, age, race, language, income range, and cultures. This book gives readers a way to not only understand equity and inclusion in greening but also to understand how to develop inclusive approaches for design. The two basic site types in this book are: existing spaces, which greening design is applied to afterwards; and upcoming spaces, which greening design is integral to the built into the space. Retrofitting greening into existing space can also be combined with new designs. There are examples of both types throughout the book.

Stevie Famulari, Gds is an artist, author, researcher, green design specialist, founder and principal of Engaging Green, and professor of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture. She has been a professor at the University of New Mexico (UNM), North Dakota State University (NDSU), SUNY Farmingdale, and the University of Cincinnati (UC). She guest lectures at Harvard University, Northeastern University, University of Minnesota, University of Cincinnati, and U.C. Berkeley. She is a keynote speaker, receives numerous awards, and shares information to help numerous people experience greening in new and unique ways.This is Stevie’s fourth book. Her first book, Green Up! Sustainable Design Solutions for Healthier Work and Living Environments, explores unique greening solutions and practices that help create a lifestyle shift, improving the health of living and working spaces for its occupants from an individual, business, ecological, and profitable perspective. Her second book, Designing Green Spaces for Health, Using Plants to Reduce the Spread of Airborne Viruses, focuses on using plants in spatial design to reduce the infectiousness of viruses in different working and living spaces. It presents strategies for interior and exterior green designs with plants that are likely effective for flu virus tolerance and reduction of infectiousness. Her third book, Ways of Greening, Using Plants and Gardens for Healthy Work and Living Surroundings, explores designs that rethink work and living spaces with healthy green designs focusing on adding 10% of living green design per square foot to interior and exterior sites. Through the illustrations, designs, photos, and text, readers can understand and apply greening to their spaces.Her installation Engaging Urban Greening was installed at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C. Over 1,400 seeded paper pieces (colorful papers embedded with a wildflower seed mix) were given to the public during the installation. People from D.C., New York, Michigan, Maryland, Florida, California, Oregon, Nigeria, Melbourne Australia, India, Yorkshire England, and South Korea added green to their community by planting their seeded papers in the soil- creating their living artwork.Mx. Famulari’s designs and design research explore the relationship, extension, and application of green designs and public art to other diverse fields to create healthy spaces for living and working. Time, change, and engaging in the process are some of the continuing themes in her works. Defying traditions as well as celebrating ecological processes, using community and individual stories of sites are themes she is widely recognized for. With the applied art of green design combined with the science of phytoremediation, her works have aesthetic beauty as well as healing properties for both people and the environs. Her work in greening designs, research, and education can be seen nationally and internationally and includes: green walls; planted roofs; gree