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Invisible Labor

Precarity, Ethnic Division, and Transformative Representation in Landscape Architecture Work

Michelle Arevalos Franco
Landscape Journal, May 2022, 41 (1) 95-111; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.41.1.95
Michelle Arevalos Franco
Michelle Arevalos Franco is an assistant professor in landscape architecture at The Ohio State University. Her research commits interdisciplinary design practice to the intersecting projects of justice, anti-colonial relations, and post-capitalist futures. Her most recent landscape designs were for Oehme, van Sweden & Associates in Washington, DC. She holds a master’s degree in landscape architecture from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, where she received the Peter Walker Partners Fellowship. Prior to that, Franco was program director of The Richard Avedon Foundation in New York and studied photography in the Sonoran Desert, receiving a bachelor’s of fine art (magna cum laude) from the University of Arizona.
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vol. 41 no. 1 95-111
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.41.1.95
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University of Wisconsin Press
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0277-2426
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1553-2704
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  • Published online May 31, 2022.
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  1. Michelle Arevalos Franco
  1. Michelle Arevalos Franco is an assistant professor in landscape architecture at The Ohio State University. Her research commits interdisciplinary design practice to the intersecting projects of justice, anti-colonial relations, and post-capitalist futures. Her most recent landscape designs were for Oehme, van Sweden & Associates in Washington, DC. She holds a master’s degree in landscape architecture from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, where she received the Peter Walker Partners Fellowship. Prior to that, Franco was program director of The Richard Avedon Foundation in New York and studied photography in the Sonoran Desert, receiving a bachelor’s of fine art (magna cum laude) from the University of Arizona.
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    • REPRESENTING IMMIGRANT LABOR
    • THE DIVISION AND DEVALUATION OF LABOR PROCESSES
    • PRECARIOUS AND UNSUSTAINABLE LABOR PRACTICES
    • TRANSFORMATIVE REPRESENTATION
    • CONCLUSION: REVALUING LABOR
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