Susan Dieterlen RLA PhD
Researcher, author, and teacher environment| immigration | justcity | wellbeing urban disinvestment | nature I’m a researcher and designer, focused on sustainability, clean energy, and how people interact with environments. I’m the author of Design by Deficit: Neglect and the Accidental City (forthcoming) and Immigrant Pastoral: Midwestern Landscapes and Mexican-American Neighborhoods (2015). I also write for scholarly and trade audiences, as well as blog about the unraveling city on City Wild. I’m captivated by big ideas and how they shape a given square foot of ground. During my years in professional practice, I designed ordinary places for real life, and now I’m interested in how this kind of place connects to the larger world. Currently this interest is focused on the complex problems of ordinary places transformed by the transition to a global economy. I’m active in bicycle-pedestrian advocacy and I regularly teach at the university level. I’ve been a registered landscape architect since 2001. |
Consulting Services
• Innovating and synthesizing across boundaries, process-based thinking, and connecting theory or research to application.
• Initiating and developing student/course projects with community collaborators; balancing interests of collaborators and students
• Mentoring and guidance of idea generation and development in others; particular experience with creative responses to urban social, economic, and ecological issues. Skilled at mentoring students from diverse backgrounds, including first-generation students.
• Facilitation of interdisciplinary conversations with students, faculty, practitioners and professionals
• Supervision of interns and assistants; team leadership and coordination
• Experiential (studio), lecture, discussion, and hybrid instruction; course and curriculum development
• Innovative teaching techniques and course structures, including digital and online technologies and social media
• Mixed-methods/quantitative research, incorporating Census data, on-site observation, GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and basic statistics
• Print and web publications for professional, scholarly, and public audiences
• Presentations for professional, scholarly, and public audiences. I also organize and chair sessions.
• Proposal preparation, including budgets, schedules, and project management
• Initiating and developing student/course projects with community collaborators; balancing interests of collaborators and students
• Mentoring and guidance of idea generation and development in others; particular experience with creative responses to urban social, economic, and ecological issues. Skilled at mentoring students from diverse backgrounds, including first-generation students.
• Facilitation of interdisciplinary conversations with students, faculty, practitioners and professionals
• Supervision of interns and assistants; team leadership and coordination
• Experiential (studio), lecture, discussion, and hybrid instruction; course and curriculum development
• Innovative teaching techniques and course structures, including digital and online technologies and social media
• Mixed-methods/quantitative research, incorporating Census data, on-site observation, GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and basic statistics
• Print and web publications for professional, scholarly, and public audiences
• Presentations for professional, scholarly, and public audiences. I also organize and chair sessions.
• Proposal preparation, including budgets, schedules, and project management
