Drawing upon the rules set forth in Christopher Alexander’s Pattern Language (1977), garden designs inspired by C.T. Sørensen (1966), principles guided by Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968) and a liberation ecology field curriculum sourced from the Critical Ecology Lab, the Exposition Park Alternative Education Project aims to serve as a knowledge transfer hub and connecting force for community members of all ages. By leveraging resources of the adjacent private institutions of the museum park and the University of Southern California, the site serves as an experimental knowledge and accessibility center that prioritizes participatory education of the outdoors and celebrates the past and future of South Los Angeles.
