Recorded Presentations

Mar 4, 2013 ‐ Dec 18, 2017

Rebroadcast: Drawing Matters: Exploring the Value of Drawing in Landscape Architecture - 1.5 PDH (LA CES-non-HSW)

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Rebroadcast: Drawing Matters: Exploring the Value of Drawing in Landscape Architecture - 1.5 PDH (LA CES-non-HSW)

Apr 29, 2020 2:00pm ‐ Apr 29, 2020 3:30pm

Credits: None available.

Drawing still matters. Rather than the familiar debate over digital versus hand graphics, this session explores the value of drawing as a process connected to seeing, thinking, and engaging throughout design.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn how you can use drawing to connect cultures, generations, and disciplines.
• Explore how drawing can help you investigate sites in new ways.
• Identify and explore perceptions and challenges to drawing in contemporary practice.
• Learn how drawing and thinking translate across media and technology.

This webinar is free for all ASLA members. The non-member price is $50. Log in to ASLA Online Learning with your ASLA username and password for the member price.

• Kona A. Gray, FASLA, Principal, EDSA
• Michael Batts, ASLA, LEED AP, Practice Leader | Landscape Architecture, STEWART
• David C. Malda, ASLA, LEED AP, Principal, Gustafson Guthrie Nichol

Rebroadcast: Breaking Free from Tropical Hardwoods: New Alternatives for Sustainability - 1.5 PDH ( LA CES-HSW)

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Rebroadcast: Breaking Free from Tropical Hardwoods: New Alternatives for Sustainability - 1.5 PDH ( LA CES-HSW)

Apr 15, 2020 2:00pm ‐ Apr 15, 2020 3:30pm

Credits: None available.

Dependency on tropical hardwoods is unsustainable given current rates of use, ecosystem degradation, and slow renewal rates. Fortunately, there are new alternatives that are durable, beautiful, and renewable. In this session learn how to use and work with thermally modified, acetylated, and polymerized woods, fused bamboo lumber, and black locust.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the environmental and social impacts of using tropical hardwoods.
• Compare alternatives to tropical hardwoods with respect to use, cost, performance, durability, and aesthetics.
• Understand issues with procurement, detailing, fabrication, installation, and maintenance requirements for alternatives to tropical hardwoods.
• Understand the challenges of specifying various wood types within SITES and Living Building Challenge projects.

This webinar is free for all ASLA members. The non-member price is $50. Log in to ASLA Online Learning with your ASLA username and password for the member price.

• Thomas C. Amoroso, ASLA, Principal, PLA, Andropogon Associates Ltd
• Laura Solano, ASLA, Principal, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc.
• Meg Calkins, FASLA, SITES AP, Professor + Department Head, North Carolina State University

Rebroadcast: The Economics of Parks: Creating and Sustaining Successful Public Realm - 1.0 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

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Rebroadcast: The Economics of Parks: Creating and Sustaining Successful Public Realm - 1.0 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Apr 1, 2020 2:00pm ‐ Apr 1, 2020 3:00pm

Credits: None available.

The economics of parks is ever more important—educating clients on the costs of creating public realm; developing funding strategies to build; balancing revenue generation with creating respite; planning for governance, operations, and maintenance to preserve investments for future generations; and valuing design.

Learning Objectives:

• Hear methods of educating clients on public realm development costs and learn from case studies how that has been achieved.
• Learn from case studies how revenue generation has supported operations and maintenance costs, and where the right balance has been struck and where it has not.
• Learn from governance models how best to plan for and preserve investment in the public realm.
• Discuss the value of design and how it can be retained in the face of the temptation to create “things to do” and demand for “economically self-sustaining” public realm.

This webinar is free for all ASLA members. The non-member price is $50. Log in to ASLA Online Learning with your ASLA username and password for the member price.

• Candace Damon, Vice Chairman, HR&A
• Gina Ford, FASLA, Principal and Co-Founder, Agency Landscape + Planning
• Mary Margaret Jones, FASLA, Sr. Principal, Hargreaves Associates

Allies, Advocates, and Stakeholders: Building Up Women in Landscape Architecture - 1.0 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)

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Allies, Advocates, and Stakeholders: Building Up Women in Landscape Architecture - 1.0 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)

Mar 5, 2020 2:00pm ‐ Mar 5, 2020 3:00pm

Credits: None available.

With the gender gap in landscape architecture as significant as ever, especially widening in the progression to leadership, it is increasingly critical for women to have opportunities for leadership development. This session explores the role of allies, advocates, and stakeholders and the global benefits of empowering women in leadership.

Please complete a brief evaluation of this Online Learning presentation.

Learning Objectives:

• Explore the significant gender gap in landscape architecture, and why it tapers off toward leadership.
• Gain insight on tangible ways volunteer and leadership experience will affect personal and career growth.
• Learn strategies for finding personal stakeholders, and why they're the new mentors.
• Understand the importance of empowering and investing in women and providing opportunities for their growth.

• Magdalena A. Aravena, ASLA, Landscape Designer, Lamar Johnson Collaborative
• Keith Wilson, ASLA, Owner & Principal Landscape Architect, Wilson Design Studio
• Haley Blakeman, ASLA, AICP, Suzanne L. Turner Assistant Professor, Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture, LSU

IT Flows Downhill: CSO and Wastewater Treatment as an Integrated Design Strategy - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

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IT Flows Downhill: CSO and Wastewater Treatment as an Integrated Design Strategy - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Dec 18, 2019 1:00pm ‐ Dec 18, 2019 1:00pm

Credits: None available.

Green stormwater infrastructure is popular with landscape architects. While cities are faced with multi-billion-dollar combined sewer overflow consent decrees, is anyone advocating for constructed wetlands as part of an integrated water treatment strategy? It’s time to expand our GSI vocabulary and look beyond bioswales and rain gardens.

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• Learn about the magnitude of the dilemma cities are facing in dealing with CSOs and meeting current regulations, and discuss the benefits and challenges of incorporating natural/nature-based solutions to address CSOs.
• Learn, through case studies, about scalable green infrastructure strategies for treating CSOs and wastewater that can also be integrated into the genre of multifunctional landscapes.
• Gain insight into benefits of a “treatment train” and “urban acupuncture” approach to CSO and wastewater treatment.
• Explore if the data supports using nature-based solutions for preventing shit from flowing downhill.

• Manisha Kaul, ASLA, LEED AP, SITES AP, Associate, Design Workshop, Inc.
• Keith Bowers, FASLA, President, Biohabitats
• Tim Duggan, ASLA, Principal, Phronesis

The Business of Innovation: Three Case Studies in Unconventional Practice - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)

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The Business of Innovation: Three Case Studies in Unconventional Practice - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)

Dec 18, 2019 1:00pm ‐ Dec 18, 2019 1:00pm

Credits: None available.

Innovation in contemporary landscape architecture requires not only creative design, but also creative business practices and nimble organizational structures. In this session, three small business owners share how they push ideas forward. Learn how they structure their work around innovation while running a profitable enterprise.

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• Explore emerging business models for small firm ownership and management. .
• Identify strategies for creating a business that prioritizes quality of life, inclusion, and innovation.
• Understand data about the growth of small firms nationwide. .
• Learn about precedent projects that exemplify small firm innovation.

• Nina Chase, ASLA, Principal and Co-Founder, Merritt Chase
• Falon Mihalic, ASLA, Principal, Falon Land Studio LLC
• Sara Zewde, ASLA, Founding Principal, Studio Zewde

No Time to Waste: Landscape Architecture and the Global Challenge of Climate Change - 1.0 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)

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No Time to Waste: Landscape Architecture and the Global Challenge of Climate Change - 1.0 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)

Nov 18, 2019 3:00pm ‐ Nov 18, 2019 4:00pm

Credits: None available.

ASLA members may view this presentation and access the professional development exam (1.0 PDH LA CES/non-HSW) for free after logging in (using your ASLA member ID and password).

Join us for three fast-paced, powerful talks from landscape architects doing inspiring work around the world to address the urgent challenges facing vulnerable communities in the era of climate change. Acclaimed science and environmental reporter and author Andrew Revkin will moderate.

Kongjian Yu, FASLA, founded the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at Peking University and Turenscape, the first private firm of its kind in China. The firm’s forward-thinking research on “ecological security patterns” and “sponge cities” has been adopted by the Chinese government as the guiding theory for national land use planning. Yu has won numerous international awards for his ecologically and culturally sensitive projects, including several ASLA Awards of Excellence and Honor Awards.

Kotchakorn Voraakhom, ASLA, is a landscape architect who works on building productive green public space that tackles climate change in sinking cities. Her favorite childhood activity—boat paddling in floodwaters—would later become a catastrophic disaster for her hometown of Bangkok, Thailand. To save her city from rising sea levels, Voraakhom founded the firm Landprocess and the Porous City Network, a social enterprise working to increase urban resilience across Southeast Asia. Voraakhom is a TED Fellow, Echoing Green Climate Fellow, and Atlantic Fellow.

Hitesh Mehta, FASLA, has worked in more than 60 countries on six continents, including some of the most remote places in the world. National Geographic identified Mehta as a pioneer of sustainable tourism, and the United Nations awarded him the Outstanding Achievement Award for his work alleviating poverty and protecting sensitive ecosystems. Mehta founded HM Design, a holistic practice, in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1990. He is a Fellow of the Architectural Association of Kenya (AAK).

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• Kongjian Yu, FASLA, President and Principal Designer, Turenscape & College of Architecture and Landscape, Peking University
• Kotchakorn Voraakhom, ASLA, CEO and Founder, Landprocess
• Hitesh S. Mehta, FASLA, President, HM Design
• Andrew Revkin, Columbia University

Measuring What Matters: Metrics to Capture the Social Impacts of Public Spaces - 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

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Measuring What Matters: Metrics to Capture the Social Impacts of Public Spaces - 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Nov 18, 2019 10:30am ‐ Nov 18, 2019 11:45am

Credits: None available.

We believe that shared civic assets have the power to influence social outcomes. Detroit is one of five cities piloting a new measurement system that tracks the impacts of investments in public space design and programming. Learn about this metrics framework and take home tools to measure your own work.

Please complete a brief evaluation of this Online Learning presentation.

• Understand a new data-driven approach for determining the multifaceted value of reinvesting in public places based on social outcomes.
• Gain knowledge of how a cross-sector team in Detroit is deploying this measurement system in partnership with neighborhood residents, and the benefits they have found in this approach.
• Consider investments and sites in your own portfolio or community that may be ripe for deploying this new metrics system.
• Learn how to use a set of DIY measurement tools to capture metrics that matter for your own public space projects.

• Lynn Ross, AICP, Founder and Principal, Spirit for Change Consulting, LLC
• Alexa Bush, ASLA, Design Director - East Region, City of Detroit
• Benjamin A. Bryant, Director of Special Projects, Interface Studio, LLC

Doing the Extraordinary: Design Excellence Through Sustainable SITES Legislation - 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW) / 1.0 GBCI SITES-Specific CE

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Doing the Extraordinary: Design Excellence Through Sustainable SITES Legislation - 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW) / 1.0 GBCI SITES-Specific CE

Nov 18, 2019 10:30am ‐ Nov 18, 2019 11:45am

Credits: None available.

Can we achieve extraordinary design, impact, influence, equity, and sustainability through SITES legislation? How can we do this? Learn from Rhode Island's historic Green Buildings Act, becoming the first state in the nation adopting LEED for Neighborhood Development and the highly strategic SITES guiding frameworks into public law.

The GBCI course ID for this course is 0920020991, providing SITES-specific CE hours required to maintain SITES AP credentials. Participants will need to pass the exam at the end of the presentation in order to receive a certificate of completion. Participants will need to self-report CE hours through their credentials account on https://sitesonline.usgbc.org.

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• Develop and formulate guiding frameworks for legislative initiatives that foster excellence in design and sustainability.
• Identify opportunities to develop cooperation, coordination, and collaboration with diverse groups, and learn to craft happenstances for "accidentally on purpose" opportunities for collaboration.
• Recognize and understand how words matter in formulating the initial language of legislation, but also in anticipating future circumstances that might not be originally contemplated.
• Appreciate the importance of participation in the public realm of policy and legislative initiatives, resulting in greater cumulative design impacts than realized from single projects.

• Kenneth J. Filarski, FAIA, LEED FELLOW, SITES AP, Principal, FILARSKI/ARCHITECTURE+PLANNING+RESEARCH
• Kevin Burke, ASLA, Director of Design, Atlanta BeltLine Inc
• Michele Adams, LEED AP, PE, President, Meliora Design

Nature, Adventure and Destination: Departures from Status Quo in Public Play Environments - 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

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Nature, Adventure and Destination: Departures from Status Quo in Public Play Environments - 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Nov 18, 2019 10:30am ‐ Nov 18, 2019 11:45am

Credits: None available.

Communities increasingly seek creative opportunities for children and families to engage in meaningful play. As the status quo shifts, differing approaches have emerged, some emphasizing the use of natural elements, others iconic design features. This session explores ways in which these approaches support healthy human development.

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• Gain awareness of the role of public play environments in the broader social-ecological contexts of young people’s lives.
• Learn about the developmental benefits of play in the outdoors.
• Understand the opportunities for developmentally appropriate play that different settings may afford young people.
• Examine commonalities and differences between different approaches to the design of play environments and how they support child development.

• Rebecca Colbert, ASLA, Landscape Architect, MIG
• Laurel Raines, ASLA, Sr Principal / Founder, Dig Studio
• Tom Leader, FASLA, Principal/ Founder, TLS Landscape Architecture