ABOUT
Annie Palone
Annie is our lead designer and a creative strategist par excellence.
She has a wealth of experience across a broad range of disciplines – from landscape and urban design, to writing, editing, research, photography, graphic design, marketing, visual communications, and throughout the world of local, organic food (in gardens, farms, farmers’ markets, caterers', and restaurants). Annie is a maker of gardens, pickles, websites, paintings, and multi-course meals...
An expert on holistic sustainable design, her 2014 handbook on Child Friendly Urbanism explores urban design strategies at three scales of intervention (in play places, housing, and ecodistricts) based on the maxim that truly sustainable design and development must prioritize healthy children.
Annie’s long-standing interests in anthropology, human geography, place-making, genius loci, and the stories people tell about the places they live, inform her approach to regenerative design for ecologically and socially resilient gardens, neighbourhoods, and cities.
ESSAYS + MUSINGS
Academic and Personal Essays
Over many years I've been a reader, writer, and researcher. Here are some essays from various times of my for your reading pleasure!
+ These are high school pieces, used in my undergraduate applications, that ultimately took me to Stanford. Rumor had it that their Admissions department called my high school to ask if I'd really written them. I had, my college advisor assured them. The rest is history. (Columbia, on the other hand, waitlisted!)
New England Interscholastic Rowing Association
Intellectual Curiosity: Schliemann
+ Here are some from my Stanford English major days...
(just kidding! the one's I have digitized are actually pretty embarrassing! I'll try to find some good ones before sharing!)
+ Essays from my grad student days at the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture (UTSOA) can be downloaded free from my Academia page here.
CLIFTON STRENGTHS™
My Top 5 Skills
The Gallup CliftonStrengths™ (formerly known as Gallup StrengthsFinder) assessment measures your talents -- your natural patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving -- and categorizes them into the 34 CliftonStrengths themes.
