Deike Peters
Soka University of America Associate Professor of Environmental Planning and Practice
Los Angeles, U.S. & Dortmund, Germany
I am a German-American environmental urbanist who is currently on a year-long sabbatical from her college teaching duties at a small liberal arts college near Los Angeles. I am working on a book tentatively entitled "The Spliced City" that unpacks nature-culture relationships and multi-species cohabitation in urban areas. My two main case studies are the (still pending) ecological restor(y)ation of the Ballona Wetlands in Los Angeles (these wetlands are also the subject of my Berlin in-person exhibit with my collaborators, sound artist Daniel Rothman and science educator Andrea Heilrath), and the recently completed "renaturalization" of the Emscher river in the German Ruhr Valley (where I was born). But please feel free to talk to me about lots of other things - I also know a lot about active and sustainable transportation (and I used to be a bike activist back in my grad school days in NYC), and I have additional strong interests in outdoor education, outdoor equity, nature schools - and more.
https://sites.soka.edu/dpeters/
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