PLP to Provide Editorial Strategy for Report Published by Architectural League of New York

Aerial view of rolling hills covered in green trees with a tan dirt path cutting across the hills into the background.

PLP is excited to announce we will be working with Nina Chase (of Merritt Chase) on “Appalachia Rising: West Virginia,” one of ten projects selected to be part of American Roundtable—a new Architectural League initiative that will bring together on-the-ground perspectives on the condition of American communities and what they need to thrive going forward.

Appalachia Rising will highlight inspiring land-based projects that have positioned themselves to replace the region’s declining extraction economy. Through a series of contributions from an all-women group of regional landscape architects, artists, and writers, this multimedia project imagines alternate, post-carbon futures for West Virginia’s communities, acknowledging the state’s reverence for land and preparing the region for the inevitable effects of climate change.

In addition to Merritt Chase, we are excited to work with an incredible team of collaborators on this project, including nationally acclaimed photographer Rebecca Kiger, Academy Award-nominated and Emmy winning film maker Elaine McMillion Sheldon, West Virginia Public Broadcasting’s Brittany Patterson, and Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Caroline Filice Smith.

To learn more about American Roundtable, visit The Architectural League’s website.

Photo credit: Rebecca Kiger

Posted May 13, 2020