News
2024
Diane was awarded the CELA FELLOW 2024. Membership in the Academy of Fellows represents the highest level of achievement within the CELA membership and honors a faculty member's accomplishments in teaching, scholarship and/or creative activity, and service.
This article from the Texas Observer recounts the story of Fred Rouse and the impact groups like TCCPJ & Transform 1012 are making in Fort Worth, TX.
2023
This is a recap video that follows 18 female industry leaders & students in landscape architecture to discuss critical issues and future opportunities for women in the profession. Courtesy of Landscape Forms.
This is an interview at Earth-x 2023 where Diane talks about community engagement in design and service learning.
This is an article on the Tamir Rice Memorial
2022
This is an article that talks about the making of the Mr. Fred Rouse Memorial
This is the selected 200 Honorary Committee, which Austin Allen was a part of.
This is an article that talks about the selected members for the 2022 Committee for the Women of Color Licensure, and Diane Jones Allen was selected as one of these members.
This is an essay written by Diane Jones Allen on Places Journal. It talks about the swampland communities established by self-liberated slaves in Louisiana and how they offer a powerful model for coping with climate disruption. This essay is adapted from a manuscript in progress to be published by University of South Carolina Press. It appears courtesy of the author.
This is the fourth installment of a narrative survey in which several dozen educators and practitioners share perspectives on the intensifying demands for meaningful change across design pedagogy and practice. Diane Jones Allen is one of those educators that provides a perspective in this article.
2021
This is a Youtube lecture given by Diane Jones Allen about the place-based approach to healing for the vulnerable.
This is a lecture that Diane Jones Allen was one of the speakers at Harvard GSD AASU about advocacy in the design profession.
This is an article about the LAF 2021 selected Olmsted Scholar Nominee Winners. Angeles Margarida was one of these nominees.
Diane Jones Allen was selected to be a 2021 Dumbarton Oaks Fellow where she focused her research on “The Maroon Landscape: A Cultural Approach to Coastal Resiliency”.
This is an article about how Angeles Margarida utilized the FabLab at the University of Texas at Arlington to complete her thesis research for the Master of Landscape Architecture Program.
This is an article from the UTA Magazine about how UTA integrates community service into academic work, which Angeles Margarida provides her perspective on her travel to Tanzania, Africa.
Diane Jones Allen and Austin Allen were honored as the Bracken Fellows for 2021-2022.
Diane Jones Allen was selected as the ASLA Student Award Chair Jury.
Angeles Margarida was the 2021 recipient of this award, which funded her thesis research for her Master of Landscape Architecture at the University of Texas at Arlington.
2020
This is an article about the LAF 2020 selected Olmsted Scholar Nominee Winners. Niveditha Dasa Gangadhar was one of these nominees.
This is an article about how Diane Jones Allen inspires the faculty and students of the University of Maryland with her lecture.
This article talks about the approval of the Tamir Rice Memorial.
2019
Diane Jones Allen was one of the speakers at this forum focusing on connectors and community gathering spaces between and within sections of cities.
This is a book review completed by Diane Jones Allen.
2018
This is an article from Total Landscape Care where Diane Jones Allen talks about increasing diversity in the Landscape Architecture field.
Diane Jones Allen was part of the National Design Awards Jury for these Awards.
This is a vimeo video about ASLA talks about climate, resilience and smart policies. Diane Jones Allen was part of this group of people discussing these topics.
This is a vimeo video where Diane Jones Allen talks about managing Stormwater.
The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) convened a Blue Ribbon Panel on Climate Change and Resilience last fall to offer communities strategies for adapting to global climate change and its impacts on human health and the environment. The panel, composed of leaders from landscape architecture, planning, engineering, architecture, public policy, and community engagement, met September 21-22, 2017, at the ASLA Center for Landscape Architecture in Washington, D.C. Diane Jones Allen was part of this panel of professionals.
This book investigates how housing and transport policy have played their role in creating these "Transit Deserts," and what impact race has upon those likely to be affected. Diane Jones Allen uses research from New Orleans, Baltimore, and Chicago to explore the forces at work in these situations, as well as proposing potential solutions.
2017
Edited by six leading practitioners and academics in the field of participatory design, with nearly 50 contributors from around the world, Design as Democracy shows how to design with communities in empowering and effective ways. Diane Jones Allen and Austin Allen are part of the professionals who participated in writing this book.
There are few other environmental design colleges whose alumni have gone out into the world and created as positive an impact in as many areas as those from UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design. More than designing structures, landscapes, and urban plans, CED alumni have changed lives, nourished communities, healed and enhanced environments, and enriched the human experience. By their actions and accomplishments, CED alumni have proven that an education focused on environmental and social justice, innovation, and creativity can lead to remarkable outcomes. Diane Jones Allen and Austin Allen were part of those four honorees.
2016
This is a Youtube documentary film that addresses city parks in Columbus, New Orleans, Detroit, Oakland, and Montgomery, and the African-Americans who frequent them. Public spaces, and the ways in which we use them, sometimes conflict with official city planning.
Design Jones LLC received the Community Service Award for providing sustained, pro bono service demonstrating the sound principles or values of landscape architecture.
2015
This is an article from the Landscape Architecture Magazine that talks about Diane Jones Allen’s work on post-Katrina New Orleans.
This is an article in the Quad LSU Magazine that talks about how Austin Allen, other LSU professors and his students accomplished a service learning experience to assist in the healing of Haiti.