Chatter Marks EP 98 A better future through design and landscape architecture with Jonny Hayes

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🗓️ 19 November 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Jonny Hayes is the the Chief Design Officer at the Anchorage Museum. But before he was at the Museum, he worked in architecture firms where he preferred to spend his time on projects that improved peoples’ lives. Like playground design and transportation. He enjoyed what he was doing there, but the more he learned about the Museum, the more he appreciated it as a community learning space, a place of knowledge where people came to learn. And then he realized how much the local community could benefit from the knowledge that comes from the archives and the artists and the community members that the Museum works with. He believed then, as he does now, that by sharing more voices visitors get a better sense of who we are as Alaskans. The work that Jonny does finds itself at a cross-section of people and the places they live. That includes how people interact with each other and their environment, and how both of those things shape them. But how do humans interact with each other and with their environment? For Jonny, this is an ongoing and ever-evolving question. It applies to the work he does at the Museum, as well as his insight into city planning. So, he’s always thinking about how the city of Anchorage can be improved, be it through building construction, public spaces, or how roads impact communities and transportation. Because if we’re better oriented to our environment — both natural and urban — then we’re more equipped to live within the world that’s around us.

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0:00.0	So Anchorage, you know, kind of back to a point where you were talking about earlier, about,
0:16.5	can this place serve as sort of an Alaska native or an indigenous place?
0:23.6	I think it already has like a temporary camp kind of vibe, right?
0:30.6	It just comes with a colonial look or a western look of tilt-up concrete buildings or corrugated steel or, you know,
0:39.3	it has this like real temporariness to it already.
0:45.4	But we can improve upon that.
0:47.9	It's just it's a means to an end, I feel like, as the city is a means to an end.
0:54.1	And so how do we change that?
0:56.3	Or do we want to change that?
0:57.8	I don't know.
0:58.5	But I think we could improve our capacity to serve one another as neighbors and have a
1:06.4	cohesive community that is economically powerful, is safe for all, is inclusive to the extent that
1:15.6	folks want to be included.
1:17.6	That was Johnny Hayes.
1:19.6	He's the chief design officer at the Anchorage Museum.
1:23.6	But before he was at the museum, he worked in architecture firms where he preferred to spend his time on projects that improved people's lives, like playground design and transportation.
1:37.6	He enjoyed what he was doing there, but the more he learned about the museum, the more he appreciated it as a community learning space,
1:47.1	a place of knowledge where people came to learn.
1:51.3	And then he realized how much the local community could benefit from the knowledge that comes
1:57.2	from the archives and the artists and the community members that the museum works with.
2:04.1	He believed then, as he does now, that by sharing more voices, visitors get a better sense of who we are as Alaskans.
2:15.7	The work that Johnny does finds itself at a cross-section of people and the places they live.
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