ASLA Ohio Award for Making Our Own Space

Making Our Own Space (MOOS) received a 2020 Ohio Landscape Architecture Award for community outreach, equity, and engagement.

MOOS focuses on building awareness of design professions in historically underserved and under-represented communities. MOOS students design, construct, and install placemaking features in shared neighborhood spaces. MOOS expands awareness of landscape architecture, creates relationships between practitioners and students, and presents a path to design professions.

MOOS students learn about the actions and connections required to make real changes in their neighborhoods, through public engagement and a range of design careers. Students receive a stipend for participating to honor the value of the local knowledge, creative energy, and design work they contribute to MOOS projects. Students from the Buckeye, Detroit-Shoreway, Glenville, Clark-Fulton neighborhoods in Cleveland, and from Shaker Heights have participated in MOOS over the program’s five-year history.

Thanks to the Ohio ASLA for recognizing the MOOS program with this honor!