Connecting natural resources, urban environments, and people through innovative landscape architecture.
what we do
who we are
Pacific Northwest focused
EQUITY INITIATIVE
GreenWorks is evolving.
GreenWorks is a community of designers who connect people and nature. We see equity work as essential to our mission and indispensable to the design of resilient landscapes and ecosystems. There are substantial and deeply rooted disparities in access to nature, recreation opportunities, urban tree canopies, and many other elements of green infrastructure that perpetuate disenfranchisement of people based on race, class, and other identities. With the goal of supporting and serving the most vulnerable and disadvantaged people in the communities, we task ourselves to ensure equity shifts and, at times, tests our design process and associated outcomes.
As a studio of largely white personnel, we recognize that we must augment the way we evaluate and perform our craft in order to have the impact we want to have. In 2019, GreenWorks launched our Equity Initiative. We are engaged in this work with the following intentions:
Listen actively in order to create an open dialogue surrounding our conscious and unconscious privilege
Create space for open and diverse viewpoints
Trust that the process we have begun will allow us to become an anti-racist/classist/sexist organization
Allow the process to be non-linear, uncomfortable or messy
Become better designers and better citizens
Accept that this work will change our organization.
This statement documents a genuine intention to grow. We are learning and listening internally and externally and believe that by becoming better listeners we will become better practitioners. We are holding ourselves accountable as we evolve.
RECENT AWARDS
Wade Creek Park, Honor Award, ASLA Oregon, 2023
Wade Creek Park, Stream Award, State Land Board, 2023
Murphy Corridor Improvements Project, Grand Award, ACEC Oregon, 2023
Terminal 1 Vancouver Landing Redevelopment, Merit Award, Washington ASLA, 2023
Windjammer Waterfront Park & Clean Water Facility, Merit Award, Washington ASLA, 2023
