Bio

Catherine Page Harris, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at University of New Mexico in the School of Architecture & Planning. BA, Harvard University, 1988, MLA, UC Berkeley, 1997, and MFA, Stanford University, 2005. Harris’ community design experience includes “The Sharing Shelves” a multi-year collaboration with the International District Healthy Communities Committee, Michaele Pride, and students, to create an artifact for community conversations. Harris co-taught the DPAC design studio for two years and has collaborated with communities through art and design for fifteen. Founder of the Indigenous Design Studio in Landscape Architecture at UNM with the Indigenous Design + Planning Institute. Recent projects include Poured Earth Collective with architect Charlie O’Geen, developing projects involved in creating structure from site, the sharing shelves, a creative placemaking project in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, the Red Water Pond Road Community Peace Center, an NEA ArtWorks funded project to create a space to memorialize the impacts of legacy mining on indigenous land, and sharing a drink, observing humans and non-humans share water. Trans-species Repast–sharing meals with animals – an exploration of hierarchy, resources and landscape– was shown in 2016 at the Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, and UNM Art Museum, in 2015 at the Land Shape Festival in Hanstholm, DK, and Marble House Project, Dorset, VT and the Wignall Museum, CA, in 2014. Current research includes listening to indigenous landscape, developing 3D imaging of botanical resilience, and proposing urban posthuman places. Pedagogical foci include indigeneity, designing for climate change, social equity, and resilience.