AIGA Jacksonville

Speaker Event with Bennett Peji

     

What is the heritage of place and how do you best connect that past to its future? How do you help a community define its vision of the future? How does this vision integrate into the fabric of the city at large? Bennett Peji, a specialist in urban design and district branding, will discuss these questions and will explore how to discover and define what distinguishes neighborhoods, communities, and cities in order to build a clearer, sustainable identity. City employees, developers, and designers interested in community and public works projects will all benefit from this presentation.

Bennett Peji is an AIGA National board member and a Commissioner of Arts & Culture for the City of San Diego. His firm, Bennett Peji Design, specializes in helping the revitalization of cities and cultures through urban design and district branding. Believing that form follows culture, Mr. Peji serves as master plan consultant for the Filipino Village development in National City. He is the recipient of the 2005 Arts, Business and Culture Award from the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce, the 2004 Outstanding Professional of the Year Award from the Filipino-American Chamber of Commerce and the 2004 Asian Heritage Award for Cultural Preservation. Besides business and community service awards, his firm has received over 200 national design awards. Mr. Peji is a co-founder and regent of the Baja California Missions Foundation, founded to renovate and preserve the historic missions in Mexico