The Stuckeman School in the College of Arts and Architecture will welcome Coco Alarcon, a Peruvian architect, landscape architect and public health researcher, to the Stuckeman Family Building at 6 p.m. on March 22 to present a lecture and open an exhibition as part of the school’s Lecture and Exhibit Series.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Landscape Architecture, Alarcon’s Bracken Lecture and exhibition are both titled “Happy Landscapes: Wellbeing by Design,” and will reflect how landscapes can address happiness, mental health and wellbeing. He will also explore how theories from social psychology and other fields can guide landscape architecture practice. Alarcon will share his experiences and ongoing work examining systemic applications of these approaches in the urban Amazonian region.