Hyde Lecture Mini Series

The Hyde Lecture series, hosted by the College of Architecture in the spring and fall semesters, is a series of lectures that brings professional planners, architects, interior designers and landscape architects before students for an opportunity to engage with their work. In the Hyde Lecture Mini Series podcast, we get even closer, interviewing the speakers about their roles. This offshoot of the Booked on Planning podcast centers students with an interest in planning. Planning students get a chance to speak directly with practicing planners and professors about their experiences, and their insights related to the field of planning.  

Additionally, these episodes are intended to contribute to the wider intellectual community in Nebraska, not just at UNL.  For one, they serve to empower students to trust their own voice as they engage with a larger community of planning scholars and practitioners in a way that allows them to gain trust in their own voice, provide students with extended professional and intellectual interactions, amplify the efforts of the Hyde Lecture Series to a broader audience beyond the university, with the hope of clarifying and strengthening how general audiences understand the field of planning, perhaps even inspiring some to pursue an education and/or career in planning.  

In the first episode, we interview Dave Amos, of the City Beautiful YouTube channel, and a professor of City and Regional Planning at CalPoly San Luis Obispo. Students Anita Borlak and Ciara Nelson- Forcade asked Dave about many of the disparate elements (for example his large international audience) of what has come to comprise his work life. His channel has brought the world of planning, which can often suffer from its indefinite parameters, into the more comprehensible format of a video. Yet does condensing the complexity of the field into digestible 10 minute segments simplify too much? We learn that the ethos of the City Beautiful channel is not to provide conclusive answers, but to provide a jumping-off point for curious viewers. His intentions are to pique peoples’ interests, so they become just a little more inquisitive in all matters related to planning. In the second episode, planning students Ben Jones and Alex Napolitano speak with planner Carissa Slotterback about her work.