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For more than thirty years, the West Philadelphia Landscape Project (WPLP) has worked in the Mill Creek watershed and neighborhood in Philadelphia, PA. The project's mission is to restore nature and rebuild community through strategic design, planning, and education projects. WPLP is led by Anne Whiston Spirn, a professor of landscape architecture and planning at MIT, who founded the project in 1987 when she was at the University of Pennsylvania.
Isidor Studio worked with Anne Whiston Spirn to compile hundreds of archived photos, maps, and graphics into visuals that both visually and metaphorically overlay the narratives of time and place. The medium of collage leverages a cohesive graphic form to capture the dynamism of the relationships, events, and initiatives that have been cultivated over the years.
Preserving African American Places seeks to understand the implications of place-based injustice and their impact on the preservation of African American cultural heritage, as well as to identify preservation-based strategies for equitable growth and development that respect the historical and present-day realties and conditions of African American Neighborhoods.
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In the summer of 2018, ten students at universities across the United States were selected as AACHAF Research Fellows and were commissioned to research and write essays on neighborhood change and historic preservation in ten study cities.
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