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 Works” Innovative 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