Jeff Hou

scholar, designer, writer, traveler

[Jeff Hou @hou2jeff]

Wonderful to join the 2023 Class of Fellows along with a remarkable group of friends and colleagues! https://t.co/VVFxQZdxUt

[Jeff Hou @hou2jeff]

Wonderful to have the opportunity to share a few thoughts on resistance and public space with @charleswaldheim on Future of the American City -- https://t.co/6wyYCyTBMW

[Geography & Planning @CUGeogPlan]

Our SPACE Research Group at @CUGeogPlan will receive on Wednesday the 19th April at 5-6 pm (UK GMT time) Prof. Jeff Hou from @UW to talk about Design (as) Activism.

[New Bloom Magazine @newbloommag]

"Shezidao as a Limit Case for Democracy in Taiwan? Perspectives from Design with Jeffrey Hou" by Aaron Su

Link: https://t.co/1j9oX29Ndv

[Jeff Hou @hou2jeff]

Wonderful to have the opportunity to reflect on past and recent work with a group of graduate students at the University of Toronto earlier this month. The conversation was captured in this two-part series in the Taiwan Gazette. Ma…https://t.co/E87IP7OUxM https://t.co/cD9OcAJzAd

[Jeff Hou @hou2jeff]

Calling all landscape architecture educators! Please respond to this survey to help the education community understand better the tools, opportunities, and challenges in teaching equity in design studios.

#LandscapeArchitecture #��https://t.co/LP4Rt5FRal https://t.co/svH96ikM0C

[Kian Goh @kiangoh]

It's publication day! ✊📘⚖️🏙️📐

I'm thrilled to announce Just Urban Design: The Struggle for a Public City, coedited with Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris & Vinit Mukhija, published by @mitpress. What does urban design have to do with a just & inclusive city? https://t.co/H8Y72F3o4V

[Jeff Hou @hou2jeff]

Whether you agree with the message in this article or not, please join the discussion in the commenting section! See you there! #landscapearchitecture #socialchange #designactivism #designeducation #leadership https://t.co/EK5ujGLfXI

[Open Space @Open_Space]

"One of the most powerful aspects of the garden was how it deepened the meanings of the protest movement."

"Participatory Urbanism" continues with Jeffrey Hou's dispatch on Seattle's CHOP garden:

https://t.co/nfWzSaqgQD

[Willow Lung-Amam @drlungamam]

❤! Hope organizers also recognized the violence done to Chinese Americans in that neighborhood--from exclusion & eviction, to divestment & serial displacement. Violence against Asian Americans is not just over there, it's everywhere--and not just interpersonal, it's structural.

[Open Space @Open_Space]

"...in Taiwan’s Wild Strawberries Protest in 2008, a guerrilla garden produced vegetables, symbolizing a determination for long-term occupation. Neither of these, however, was comparable in scale and magnitude to the gardens inside CHOP..." --@hou2jeff

https://t.co/nfWzSaqgQD

[Open Space @Open_Space]

"Almost as soon as Marcus started digging, he was joined by fellow protestors; within days, what had been social distancing circles [...] inside the Cal Anderson Park became food-producing gardens; a place of refuge inside the tense occupied zone."

https://t.co/nfWzSaqgQD

[Open Space @Open_Space]

Who participates — and how — in constructing urban places? -RAO

Thank you
#JanetDelaney!
@jp_goes_places!
@TamikaButler!
@jgmoore!
@stsay!
@TomDeCaigny!
#RobertoBedoya!
@hou2jeff!
@PROXYSF!

for contributing to "Participatory Urbanism": https://t.co/pFspIrlYjd

[Jeff Hou @hou2jeff]

Can Seattle become a 15-minute city? What are the ramifications? https://t.co/PJRP01qDF2

[Jeff Hou @hou2jeff]

@julianagyeman @OaklandBikeLab @edratweets @sethalow @JamesRojas Looking forward to it!!

[EDRA @edratweets]

The EDRA52 Organizing Committee is pleased to announce speakers for EDRA52 DETROIT May 19-23, 2021: @sethalow, @julianagyeman, @hou2jeff, and @JamesRojas will be presenting the plenary session: Social Justice, Culture, and Public Space: Transdisciplinary Perspectives!

[Jeff Hou @hou2jeff]

Finally got to talk about an occupy protest as a local. Excellent reporting by Greg Scruggs—https://t.co/KFzHzPnlzk

[Jeff Hou @hou2jeff]

Join me, Liz Camuti (SCAPE), Diana Fernandez (Sasaki), Nick Jabs (PORT), Pierre Bélanger (OPEN SYSTEMS), and Hans Baumann for a two-part conversations on the critical challenges facing the profession and education of landscape arch…https://t.co/K3OY0kFZmN https://t.co/juXb0gQ5i9

[Jeff Hou @hou2jeff]

Grateful to have the opportunity to work on this project with my amazing colleagues and with folks from @RealChangeNews and ROOTS Young Adult Shelter. #SeattleStreetSink

[@realchangenews.bsky.social @RealChangeNews]

Washing hands in our finished sink outside @rootsshelter. Huge thanks to these amazing @UW Professors! Now let’s get the city to replicate these! @ericacbarnett

[Jeff Hou @hou2jeff]

Great to get audience response! Thanks to @debutton

#2020AYearWithPublicSpace #JournalofPublicSpace