![]() ![]() Residents of the Cudell neighborhood and teachers from Seltzer Elementary, alongside fellow Clevelanders, planted flowers and laid stone pathways. And we brought in some plant experts, experts on how to put a wall together to teach kids and Ms. Collaborating with local artists and volunteers, they assembled the Butterfly Project. Nagin, a Cleveland native, had been studying permaculture design and got involved with the Tamir Rice Justice Committee along with her longtime-activist parents. Samaria Rice, Tamir’s mother, had been in touch with local organizer Molly Nagin and resident Shelly Gracon, who suggested that the site that marked Tamir’s violent death could become a place of healing. Just a few months after 12-year-old Tamir Rice was brutally shot and killed by Cleveland police officers, the community came together to build a butterfly garden on the site of his murder. The text was written by Tamir Rice’s mother, Samaria Rice. The hand-chiseled memorial plaque is designed to resist rain and snow. Tamir Rice, captured in stone, shines in the afternoon sun. The face engraved upon it, the one that looked back to the child, also emanates a sense of permanence-a portrait of a young boy, smiling in a white T-shirt. Though it appears like water, the plaque’s physicality is quite the opposite: solid, permanent, and unflinching to forces nearby. “Be careful!” she called, pointing to the glinting marble. He took a step onto its surface and was stopped by a teacher. The summer light overhead made the plaque appear as a pool of water. One small child stood quietly over the garden’s reflective black plaque laid flush with the ground he gazed into his own reflection. ![]() A group of toddlers had gathered with their teachers-likely a preschool daycare-along a bench that bordered a butterfly garden. It was a Friday, and students were making the short commute between the elementary school and the Cudell Recreation Center, located just a stone’s throw northwest. Seltzer Elementary School playground around 11:00 a.m., just before the day’s heat peaked. By Anjulie Rao / Photography by Sahar Coston-Hardy, Affiliate ASLA Volunteers and staff from the Tamir Rice Foundation greet visitors at the garden’s unveiling. Each issue features an original theme sketch by celebrated landscape architect Laurie Olin.A memorial garden for a 12-year-old victim of police violence becomes a springboard for serving generations of children. LA+ is available for purchase at design bookstores and museums around the world including MoMA in NYC, the Musée de Beaux-Artes in Montrèal, the Royal Institute of British Architects in London, and the National Building Museum in Washington DC. LA+ is a high-quality, full-color journal available in print (published by ORO Editions) and digital formats. LA+ Journal is committed to content that promotes a global diversity of perspectives and cultures, and which encourages an expansive understanding of the field of landscape architecture and the role of landscape architects. Our aim is to reveal connections and build collaborations between landscape architecture and other disciplines by exploring each issue’s theme from multiple perspectives. Within our pages you hear not only from designers, but also from historians, artists, geographers, psychologists, ecologists, planners, scientists, philosophers, and many more. LA+ explores landscape architecture's interdisciplinary potential, bringing readers a rich collection of contemporary thinkers and designers in two lavishly illustrated issues annually. Richard Weller and produced by the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design. LA+ (Landscape Architecture Plus) is an award-winning interdisciplinary journal founded in 2014 by Dr. ![]()
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