| Your Name | Jessica Barahona |
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| Email Address | jbarahonaragon@gmail.com |
| Cohort Assignment | Americas Online, Winter-Spring 2024/2025 |
| 1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life? | Doctoral Studies in Architecture and Urban Studies Field. Current research focused on the Regeneration of a degraded urban fluvial landscape in Honduras. The Main objective is to create a catalog of nature-based solutions that can be deployed as small landscape projects that initiate the regeneration of the river. |
| 2. What role do you see as yours to play? | I am the project's main researcher and one of the few landscape architects in the country who is interested in this kind of topic. |
| 3. What goals or aims do you have in regard to the above? | To generate the catalog and share it with the public administration and general public to sow a seed that maybe starts some kind of initiative. |
| 4. Where do you feel your next arenas for personal growth are? | Complex Systems understanding and ways to deal with wicked problems. |
| 5. And for professional growth? | Landscape regeneration consultant for public and/or private organizations |
| 6. What have you invested in to get you where you are? | Time, energy, and being away from family and country. |
| 7. What fields of learning and which thinkers have been important in your life? | Landscape Literacy - Ann Spirn |
| 8. Can you frame your philosophy or cosmology of life? What role(s) do humans play in it? | I believe that humans are part of the universe at the same level as animals, plants, and other species. I do not believe that because humans are thinkers and have awareness are above everything else. I truly believe that we are part of the same system and we should be acting as such, making the best effort to have some kind of balance and allow every species to thrive as we do. |
| Date Created | November 6, 2024 |