September 19-20, 2019
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
Brown University
154 Angell Street, Providence RI

Inspired by the French concept of "paysagisme" – which integrates land art, landscape design, urban planning, public space, agriculture and ecology – the Brown Arts Initiative (BAI) convenes its third symposium to address humanity's relationship to land. Our exploration is through a cultural and social justice lens that considers issues of nurturance, sustenance, access, respite and intervention. Activist artists and scholars, a designer, curator, poet, chef and local food provider share their visionary work examining modes of expression that respond to contemporary culture, embrace the environment and engage the public sphere.