Cultural landscapes are built of relationships — relationships between people, between people and place, and between the past, present, and future. This holistic and relational vision for how we engage with place serves as the bedrock of Land Tangles’ work. Using this framework, Land Tangles Planning Studio offers a comprehensive approach to site stewardship and placemaking through equitable, ecological, and culturally-responsive history, planning, and design.

Sean Dunlap

Founder and principal Sean Dunlap has more than a decade of experience in historic preservation and landscape planning, with a dedicated focus on historic and cultural landscapes. In that time, Sean has led or contributed to a number of cultural landscape reports, National Register nominations, conceptual interpretive designs, and mapping projects, and has worked with a variety of clients, including the National Park Service, municipal governments, garden clubs, and land conservation groups. Since 2024, he has produced this work through Land Tangles Planning Studio.

Sean welcomes collaboration with other firms, regularly serving in various project roles including Landscape Historian, Mapping Specialist, and Historic Preservation Specialist. With an educational background in cultural anthropology, historic preservation, landscape architecture, and planning, he meets the Secretary of the Interior's Professional Qualification Standards for Historic Preservationist, and Historic Preservation Planner, Historian, and Landscape Historian. Sean currently serves as Vice Chair on the Georgia National Register Review Board.

Away from the desk, Sean can be found tending plants in his family’s garden and nursery, collecting field recordings, and practicing landscape photography.

Education

M.A., Environmental Planning + Design, University of Georgia

M.A., Historic Preservation, University of Georgia

B.A., Anthropology, University of West Georgia

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