Illuminating a Hidden Site

Mary G. Padua is a licensed landscape architect with experience in the public and private sectors, including managing her practice, MGP Studio art design research. Her practice and research activities focus on human-centered outdoor restorative environments and the cultivation of place. Simultaneously a design educator and professor at Clemson University, where she served four years as chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture, Padua is an internationally recognized changemaker. She is an award-winning writer and visual artist with original photographs held in public and private collections. Her publications span China’s hyperurbanization, novel American landscapes, and interrogating the meaning of place.