Center for Cultural Landscapes

The Center for Cultural Landscapes focuses on the study, stewardship, and interpretation of cultural landscapes—places shaped by human presence and care—and their documented connections to health, wellbeing, and community life. It is be housed in the History Department but is inherently interdisciplinary and includes faculty collaborators Horticulture, Fine Arts, English, Landscape Architecture, Geography, Public Health, and the College of Medicine. Community partnerships are focused in Walnut Hills and CUF, though this will likely expand. CCL partners with community nonprofits to research the human and ecological history of neglected landscapes and to activate them as community and cultural enrichment greenspaces.

Volunteer horticultural and conservation workdays; GIS mapping and other digital projects; historical and conservation research; community outreach in Walnut Hills and CUF, health and wellness research and projects; art making (especially sculptures and land art).