The Big Idea of the Tidal Basin Ideas Lab
Channel: National Trust for Historic Preservation
Date: 2023-09-18

From PastForward Online 2020

The National Mall Tidal Basin is one of our nation’s most iconic, significant, and beloved cultural landscapes and commemorative spaces—and it is endangered. The Tidal Basin Ideas Lab is a forum to boldly reimagine this important public space. Unlike a design competition, which typically selects a winner with a conclusive master plan, the Ideas Lab promotes an exchange of ideas between designers, stakeholders, and the public. Join a discussion with some of the country’s preeminent landscape architecture firms participating in the Ideas Lab to learn how they are boldly reimagining this iconic but threatened public space. Participating teams in the Ideas Lab include DLANDstudio, GGN, Hood Design Studio, James Corner Field Operations, and Reed Hilderbrand. Dive into a discussion about how these designers are considering critical factors like climate change, ecology, infrastructure, visitor experience, security, circulation, connectivity, cultural landscape, and historic preservation.