Maggie Hansen

Assistant Professor
The University of Texas at Austin




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Publications


Peer Reviewed Publications


2024       Hansen, M. “Positing A Pedagogy of Care in Design Education,” Architecture Media                  Politics Society (AMPS): Teaching Beyond the Curriculum Proceedings 28.3: ISSN 2398-              9467, pp. 382-391.



          Taylor, E., Jenisch, N., Yoachim, A., Cotto, J., Hansen, M. “If: Then, Assessing the             Impacts of 20 Years of a University-Based Community Design Center,” Association of                Collegiate Schools of Architecture Proceedings 112, pp. 752-758.



2023       Hansen, M. “Green Thumbs: The Politics and Precarity of Land Care Labors,” The Jugaad            Project: What Matters in ‘Work’?, Winter 2023, Vol. 5, No. 2.                                    https://www.thejugaadproject.pub/home/green-thumbs



            Hansen, M., “Design from the Margins: Five Potentials from Place-Based Land Care,”                Architecture Media Politics Society (AMPS): New York – Livable Cities Proceedings                34.1: ISSN 2398-9467, pp. 118-126



2018       Hansen, M., “Designing through an Ethic of Care,” European Council of Landscape                  Architecture Schools Conference Proceedings: Landscapes of Conflict. pp.  72-79.



2016       Taylor, E., Hansen, M., Mobley, S. Designers, “Citizens, and Citizen-Designers;                  charting new modes of engagement, collaboration, and project outcomes at the Tulane              City Center,” Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture 104th National                    Meeting Proceedings, Shaping New Knowledges. pp.  159-166.



2011       Mathew, S., Hansen, M., “Re-Urbanizing with Water: A Hydrological Perspective”, in                Bailey, B., Cochran, J., Hays, J., Sparkman, C., LUNCH: Student Journal of the                    University of Virginia School of Architecture, Volume 6: Systems. pp.  194-199.



2010       Hansen, M., Mathew, S. “Baltimore Water WorksInnovative Solutions for the Delta,                International DeltaCompetition, Rotterdam, Netherlands.  


Book Chapters


2024       Hansen, M., “Introduction: A Call for Transgressive Practices,” Transgressive                    Practices to Transformative Policies: Landscape Change, Fast & Slow, The Center for              American Architecture and Design. 2024. pp. 7-17.



2018       Hansen, M., Taylor, E. “Collaborating for Change in New Orleans: Small Center for                Collaborative Design" in Bell, B., Abendorth, L, (Eds.)  Public Interest Design                  Education Guidebook: Curricula, Strategies, and SEED Academic Case Studies.Routledge,            pp. 82-92.


Edited Volumes


2024       Hansen, M., ed. Transgressive Practices to Transformative Policies: Landscape Change,            Fast & Slow, The Center for American Architecture and Design. 2024.



           Birkeland, J. and Hansen, M, ed. Ditched Schemes: a landscape zine. Issue 1,September            2024.



Professional Research Reports - *Works co-authored with Students


2017       Mobley, S., Gordon, S., Shiels, J., Bray, A.*, Welty, E., Jenisch, N., Hansen, M. The             Cost of Home: Local Models and National Policy for Affordability. New Orleans: The                Small Center for Collaborative Design at Tulane School of Architecture.



2016       Harmon, D., Jenisch, N., Mobley, S., Hansen, M., and Tulane Architecture Students.*              Ozanam Inn Day Space: Design Build, New Orleans: The Small Center for Collaborative              Design at Tulane School of Architecture.



2016       Jenisch, N., Towers, J., Gonzalez, G.*, Chen, S.*, David, A., Mobley, S., Hansen, M.,            and Tulane Architecture Students.* Mapping Mental Health Resource Access with Recovery            School District, New Orleans: The Small Center for Collaborative Design at Tulane                School of Architecture.



2016       Jacob, B., Lee, M., Hansen, M., Etheridge, D., Price, A.*, Jenisch, N., Mobley, S.,              and Tulane Architecture Students.* Façade ReNEW, New Orleans: The Small Center for                Collaborative Design at Tulane School of Architecture and the New Orleans                        Redevelopment Authority.



2016       Mobley, S., Hansen, M., Jenisch, N., Taylor, E., and Tulane Architecture Students.*              Locating New Orleans: An Exploration on Shaky Ground, New Orleans: Tulane City Center.



2015       Mobley, S., Jenisch, N., Hansen, M., Taylor, E., and Tulane Architecture Students.*              Guide to Street Performance with Music and Culture Coalition of New Orleans. Tulane              City Center.



2015       Hansen, M., Simons-Jones, H., Hollowell, A., Jenisch, N., Mobley, S., Taylor, E.,                Gordon, S. Tulane City Center Strategic Plan.



2015       Jacob, B., Mobley, S., Lee, M., Hansen, M., Taylor, E., Jenisch, N., and Tulane                  Architecture Students.* Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard: Past Present Future. New                  Orleans: Tulane City Center.



2014       Cox, G., Jenisch, N., Baudoin, V.*, Mikawa, S.*, Stubbs, J, Cox, M., Hansen, M., Dew              Drop Inn. New Orleans: Tulane City Center.



2014       Linn,T., Mossop, E., Jenisch, N., Cox, M., Hansen, M., and Tulane Architecture                    Students.* Hung Dao Cultural Landscape with Hung Dao CDC, New Orleans: Tulane City                Center.



2014       Taylor, E., Harmon, D., Jenisch, N., Hansen, M., Mobley, S., Cox, M., and Tulane                  Architecture Students.* Parisite Skatepark Entryway with Transitional Spaces: Design              Build, New Orleans: Tulane City Center at Tulane School of Architecture.


Other Publications


2024       Hansen, M. and Birkeland, J. “The Runner-Up Club,” Landscape Architecture Magazine,              August 2024, pp. 106-115.



2023       Hansen, M. “In Support of Transgressive Practices: Cultivating New Landscape                      Imaginaries,” in Platform Magazine: Civics and Placemaking, the University of Texas at            Austin School of Architecture, 2023, pp. 22-27.



2022       Hansen, M. “Re-Drawing Connections: Design Advocacy in Section” in Platform Magazine:            A Focus on Pedagogy,the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, pp. 48-            53.



2020       “In Care of…, Q&A: Maggie Hansen with Piergianna Mazzocca” in Issue XVI: University of             Texas at Austin School of Architecture Student Journal, pp. 2-5.



            Hansen, M., “Transdisciplinary Design for a Future Cascadia,” in Platform Magazine:               Urban Agencies: The Climate Imperatives of the Contemporary City, the University of               Texas at Austin School of Architecture, pp. 26-29.

Publications by Others


2024        Books of Interest: Transgressive Practices, Landscape Architecture                               Magazine, October 2024, pp



2022        King, Aaron, “The Year of the Superstudio,” Landscape Architecture Magazine,April                2022, pg. 94-117. featured my Green New Deal Studio in Spring 2021, with interview                quotes with participating student, Taylor Davis MLA ’21, and work by Kristin Witte                MLA ’21.

Work in Progress


Hansen, M. and Jenisch, N., Introduction + editor, Smallx20: Collaborating in New Orleans


Submitted – under review


Cohen, I. and Hansen, M. “Thinking the Theory of Change as a Potent Pedagogical Tool,” 2025 ACSA / EAAE Teachers Conference, Halifax



Hansen, M. “Cultivating a Care-full Urbanism: Learning from Land-based Organizing in New Orleans,” Landscape Research Group, Special Issue: Landscapes and Care. (accepted pending revisions)



Hansen, M. “Yasmeen Lari: Architecture for the Future” (review). Journal of Architectural Education.


SCHOLARSHIP - PRESENTATIONS

Symposia Organized


2023        “Transgressive Practices to Transformative Policies: Landscape Change, Fast & Slow”               symposium at the University of Texas School of Architecture, convener and moderator.             February 24, 2023.


Podcast Episodes


2024        Hansen, M. and Birkeland, J. Ditched Schemes, Episode 1: Sarah Cowles says Find your             Friends, October



            Hansen, M. and Birkeland, J. Ditched Schemes, Episode 2: Rod Barnet



            Hansen, M. and Birkeland, J. Ditched Schemes, Episode 3: Pierre Belanger



            Hansen, M. and Birkeland, J. Ditched Schemes, Episode 4: Laurie Olin


Conference Presentations with Peer Reviewed Abstracts


2024       Taylor, E., Jenisch, N., Yoachim, A., Cotto, J., Hansen, M. “If: Then, Assessing the              Impacts of 20 Years of a University-Based Community Design Center,” Association of                Collegiate Schools of Architecture 112th meeting. March, 15, 2024. [23% acceptance                rate]



2023       Hansen, M. “Positing A Pedagogy of Care in Design Education,” Architecture Media                 Politics Society (AMPS): Teaching Beyond the Curriculum, online, November 15, 2023.



            Hansen, M., “Hands On Urbanism and Designed Maintenance for Land Care,” Architecture             Media Politics Society (AMPS): New York Livable Cities, online, June 14-16, 2023.



            Hansen, M. “Hands-in-the-Dirt Knowledge: research and organizing through                         stewardship,” DIY Methods, zine conference organized by The Low Carbon Research                   Methods Group, September 15, 2023.



2022       Hansen, M., Geffel, M., Toy, J., Franco, M., and Jones, J. “Cultivating a Design                 Practice of Land Care: teaching at the intersection of land and labor,” Evolving                 Norms: Adapting Scholarship to Disruptive Phenomena, Council of Educators in Landscape            Architecture, Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico. March 16-19, 2022.



          Hansen, M. “Embodied Care: Landscape Labor and Environmental Publics,” Evolving                   Norms: Adapting Scholarship to Disruptive Phenomena, Council of Educators in Landscape           Architecture, Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico. March 16-19, 2022.



          Hansen, M. “Teaching Design-informed Citizenship: Considering the Designer in Context,”           Architecture Media Politics Society: A Focus on Pedagogy (web-based). April 20-22,               2022.



2021       Hansen, M., Miller, M., Diamond, A., and Mobley, S., “Remembering for the Future:                Using Storytelling in Design to Engage Complicated Histories,” Association of                    Collegiate Schools of Architecture 109th Meeting (web-based). March 24-26, 2021. [27%            acceptance]



           Hansen, M., “Situated Cultures: Lessons from Bayou Road,” Environmental Design                    Research Association (web-based). May 21, 2021. 



            Hansen, M., “Teaching the Limits of Design,” European Council of Landscape                       Architecture Schools conference: Stop and Think, SLU-Uppsala, Sweden (web-based).                 September 13-15, 2021.



2020        Hansen, M., “Diverse and Alive: Landscape Care-work with the Gowanus Canal,”                     Landscape Research Group: A Future of our Own Making (webinar). June 18, 2020.



            Hansen, M., Teaching the Limits of Design: Lessons from Service Learning in New                   Orleans, AMPs: Teaching Learning Research: Design and Environments (accepted; did not             present due to COVID-19).



            Hansen, M., Design with Care: Lessons from Community-Based Work in New Orleans,                   ACSA/EAAE Teachers Conference: Curriculum for Climate Agency: Design (in)Action                   (accepted; did not present due to COVID-19). [35% acceptance rate]



            Hansen, M., “Landscape Labors: Reframing Design Leadership through Care,” Council for             Educators in Landscape Architecture (accepted, canceled due to COVID-19).



            Hansen, M., “Situated Cultures: lessons from community engaged practice in New                   Orleans,” Council for Educators in Landscape Architecture (accepted, canceled due to             COVID-19).



2018       Hansen, M., “Designing through an Ethic of Care,” European Council of Landscape                  Architecture Schools: Landscapes of Conflict, Ghent, Belgium. September 9-12, 2018.



            Hansen, M., “Leveraging Landscape Care,” Association of Community Design 41:                     Reverberations: Roots & Relevance of Community Design, Baltimore, MD. June 7-10,                 2018.



2016       Baldwin, M., Hill, K., Hansen, M., “The Shallow and The Fallow: Designs for the                  Changing Urban Landscape,” American Society of Landscape Architects National                      Conference, New Orleans, LA. November 3, 2016.


Invited Conference Presentations


2024        Hansen, M., “Ditched Schemes: When Projects Don’t Work Out,” CAAD Forum, September               13, 2024.



            Panelist, “Extreme Heat in Texas: Interdisciplinary Challenges and Solutions”                     Planet Texas 2050 Symposium, February 28



2021        Hansen, M. “Prairies Past,” Sweet Pass Sculpture School, June 4



            Coker, C., Ibarra-Sevilla, B. Hansen, M., “The Role of the Designer in Society:                   Building the Intangible,” CAAD, March 21



2019        Hansen, M., “Tending: Spatial Practices and Civic Care,” CAAD Forum, November 22.



2018        Hansen, M., Design Thinking Panel, Pennsylvania State University Start Up Week



2017        Hansen, M., “Emerging Practice,” Tulane School of Architecture Lecture Series



            Hansen, M., Campanella, R., Chang, A., “Growth and Decay in an Urban Delta,” Small               Center



2016       Hansen, M., “Tulane City Center” Serial lecture series, Gulf Coast Community Studio,              Biloxi



           Hansen, M., “Alternative Practice” Professional Practice Week, Dalhousie School of                Architecture, Halifax Canada



          Hansen, M., “Tulane City Center” Cordes Innovation Award Keynote, ASHOKA U 2016                   Exchange



          Hansen, M., ‘Community – University Partnerships’ Ashoka U 2016 Exchange, New Orleans


Invited Class Presentations + Workshops


2024        Hansen, M., “Can Architects be Activists?” for Norwood seminar, “American                         Architecture,” University of Texas at Austin



2023        Hansen, M., “5 ½ Degrees of Care for Landscape” for Cohen seminar “Postcards of                 Public Space,” Auburn University



2022        Hansen, M., “Embodied Care in Design” for Vanucchi & Goula Studios, Cornell                       University



            Hansen, M. “Sketch Landscape Models,” Materializing Design series, UTSOA                         Materials Lab



2019        Hansen, M., “Everywhere and Incomplete” (workshop) Robert Reed Drawing Workshops,                 Penn State University



2017       Hansen, M., Guest lecture on Landscape Architecture, Introduction to Environmental                Studies, Tulane University



2016       Hansen, M., Guest lecture on Landscape Architecture, Introduction to Environmental                Studies, Tulane University


Conference Participation


2022        Design Futures Student Leadership Forum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA,             Faculty participant



            Design Futures Faculty Forum (web-based)



2021        Design Futures Student Leadership Forum, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (web-             based), Faculty participant



            Design Futures Faculty Forum (web-based)



2020        Design Futures Student Leadership Forum, Washington University in St Louis, MO (web-             based), Faculty participant



            Design Futures Faculty Forum, Los Angeles, CA



            Futuress Troublemakers Class of 2020 (international web-based feminist design writing             workshop)



            Academics for Black Survival and Wellness (web-based faculty workshops)



            Anti-Racist Women in the Arts (web-based, consciousness raising group)



2019        Urban Design Academic Group Convening, Austin TX



2018        Design Futures Student Leadership Forum, University of Detroit Mercy. Detroit, MI,               Faculty participant



2017        Design Futures Faculty Forum, New Orleans, LA



2016        Design Futures Student Leadership Forum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA,             Faculty participant



2015        Design Futures Student Leadership Forum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, Faculty             participant


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