This innovative learning experience will provide the tools you need to add value to your firm and develop time-tested business development skills which can be used throughout your career. This multi-course virtual learning experience is a career development investment for practitioners looking to build their leadership capacity, add value to their firm, and develop transferable business development skills.

​This year, DREAM BIG immersed students in design-centered strategies that address some of the most critical issues of our time - green infrastructure, equity in design, climate action, transportation for all, water and stormwater, and more. Together, we, along with our member community of 15,000 landscape architects, led attendees in interactive sessions that explore the future of landscape architecture and apply design techniques that can be aligned with interdisciplinary curricula.

​This year, DREAM BIG immersed students in design-centered strategies that address some of the most critical issues of our time - green infrastructure, equity in design, climate action, transportation for all, water and stormwater, and more. Together, we, along with our member community of 15,000 landscape architects, led attendees in interactive sessions that explore the future of landscape architecture and apply design techniques that can be aligned with interdisciplinary curricula.

As a project manager, you have a million things to keep track of at any given stage. Effective project management keeps you focused on each step of the way, from beginning to end. Through this course series, you will learn how to develop core project management plan components to bring you, your clients, and the project team into alignment on resources, milestones, and budget.

Over the last decade, the interest in outdoor kitchens has continued to rise. This is reflected by the AIA Home Design Survey continuously naming outdoor kitchens as a key home trend. Outdoor kitchens add value to a home, extend living and entertaining spaces and brings the comfort of the indoors out. This course identifies current market trends for outdoor kitchens, the scope of products available, decisions to consider before starting a project and design guidelines you need to know to create outdoor kitchens your clients will want to use all year round.

Landscape architecture strives to design an outdoor experience for the end-user while implementing sustainable measures to reduce or eliminate resource consumption. The more we study, implement, and validate sustainable design, the more we realize the interconnectivity of these elements not only within the site, but with society and the world around us. Water conservation in irrigation has always been a tenet of sustainability, but it also plays an integral role in heat island reduction, stormwater management, carbon sequestration, and equitable spaces. However, the impacts of manufactured products that we as practitioners specify are often overlooked and influence sustainability beyond the project boundaries as much as the design does within.

When we design with nature, we help communities become more resilient to climate change. Living Breakwaters and the Tottenville Shoreline Protection Project in Staten Island, New York City, demonstrate how coastal communities can adapt to rising seas and increasingly intense storms. These innovative projects, led by landscape architects, work in tandem to reduce wave action and beach erosion, create wildlife habitat, and enhance public recreation.

By now, we’ve all heard the news: Materials for landscape projects are hard to find, hard to price—and delayed, delayed, delayed. For the June ASLA Landscape Architecture Magazine cover story, “Your Stuff Is Coming (Someday),” Bradford McKee interviewed dozens of landscape suppliers, wholesalers, and manufacturers whose products and services are central to delivering completed landscape architecture projects. With the disruption in construction supply chains rippling across the globe, many designers are left to manage their own way around the missing parts and client expectations.

As growth along our nation’s coastlines continues to increase, the threat from sea level rise, storm surges, flooding, and unsettled weather patterns are conspiring to make us think differently about how to protect, develop, and manage coastal communities. While the challenges are formidable, there is now a wonderful opportunity to craft a new approach to development and protection—one built on ecological abundance, social equity, and climate.

Presenters will share insights, research, and findings from the launch of a new online platform: the Vacant Land Stewardship Online Resource Center. This session will range from a discussion of national policies that have created vacant land; the difficulties of defining ‘vacant land’; and a reflection on why ‘vacant land’ grapples with its ecological identity. Together we will explore inspirational and locally nuanced solutions arising from vacant land stewardship projects across the country.