Happy (frigid) Friday, Chattanooga! Lets take a moment to dream of warmer, sunnier days ahead in the future heart of Montague Park. Here you may catch a glimpse of the play spaces currently under development by our upcoming CIVIQ speaker, Meghan Talarowski! The event will be held on Thursday, February 27th at the Chattanooga Public Library Downtown Branch at 5:30. Don't forget to secure your *free* tickets at the link in the bio!

What do Montague Park and Civiq next week have in common?? Meghan Talarowski, of course! On the Montague Park collaborative design team, Reed Hilderbrand LLC has engaged Meghan and Studio Ludo as the technical consultant for play & activation.

We are thrilled to join the @chattlibrary in welcoming Chattanooga native, Jerel McCants, on his homecoming stop on his book tour to promote his new work, Architecture of Segregation, a fascinating account of the role that spatial design takes in the shaping of society, and how looking at these spaces can inform forgotten histories.

Mark your calendars for the next CIVIQ! THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27 "Never Too Old to Play: Rethinking American Playgrounds" Chattanooga Public Library, Downtown Branch 5:30-7:00 pm Meghan Talarowski, PLA, ASLA, CPSI Executive Director, Studio Ludo Meghan Talarowski is the founder and executive director of Studio Ludo. She has degrees in architecture and landscape architecture, is a certified playground safety inspector, and licensed landscape architect. Her research focuses on how the design of play environments impacts physical health and social behavior. To date, she has collected data on over 60,000 people in 100 play spaces. This research informs her play designs, which include over 30 play environments across the US. Her work has been featured by The New York Times, The Atlantic, NPR, Curbed, Dwell, Popular Science, Landscape Architecture Magazine, and World Landscape Architecture Magazine. 🎟️ in bio

“LANDSCAPE, MEMORY, and TRUTH : UNLOCKING HISTORIES HIDDEN IN THE LAND” CIVIQ with Thomas Woltz of @nelsonbyrdwoltz is one not to be missed! Over the past two decades of practice, Mr. Woltz and his team have infused narratives of the land into the places where people live, work, and play. Their research-based design approach allows the team to “listen to the land” and answer with intention, revealing cultural and ecological narratives that connect people to one another and the natural world Join us Thursday evening for the final CIVIQ of the year presented in partnership with @trustforpublicland and supported by @chattlibrary There are only a handful of tickets left! Images provided by Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects: Children’s Memorial at Centennial Park-Nashville, TN Flight 93 National Memorial-Shanksville, PA The Contemplative Site and Burial Ground for Enslaved People at Monticello-Charlottesville, VA