Aggrawal Delivers Invited Guest Lecture at University of Texas at Dallas

October 9, 2026

Title slide for a presentation by Shivika Aggrawal, Ph.D. Candidate at Purdue University, titled "What Can a Park Remember? Memory, participation, & the civic capacity of place." Dated October 7, 2026. Part of Unit 2: Social Change.

Shivika Aggrawal, from Dr. Aaron Thompson’s lab at the Center for Community & Environmental Design (CCED), delivered an invited guest lecture for the Initiative for Civic Leadership in the University of Texas at Dallas’s School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences. Her talk, “What Can a Park Remember? Memory, Participation, & the Civic Capacity of Place,” drew on examples from her own research and life experiences to highlight the role of education, outreach, and literacy in advancing intentional social change. The session engaged 25 upper-level undergraduate students working on a project assessing civic capacity of local parks.

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