Recorded Presentations

Mar 4, 2013 ‐ Dec 18, 2017

Inside the LA Studio with DAVID RUBIN Land Collective - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)

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Inside the LA Studio with DAVID RUBIN Land Collective - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)

Jan 22, 2019 1:29pm ‐ Jan 22, 2019 1:29pm

Credits: None available.

DAVID RUBIN Land Collective began with a simple mission and big ambitions: to positively inform the world and improve the human condition through landscape. Established by David A. Rubin in 2012, the Philadelphia studio practices "empathy-driven" design and crafts socially-purposeful landscapes that create positive change through cross-disciplinary collaborations and the synthesis of art, technology and the social sciences.

Learning Objectives:

• Explore how a young, start-up studio quickly grew to inform landscapes of significance across the country.
• Understand how Land Collective’s empathy-driven approach creates timeless spaces that invite all to participate.
• Learn how the studio takes on the challenges and goals of clients and constituents while impressing upon the landscape the studio’s characteristically inclusive designs.
• Find out how the studio’s humanist approach allows it to cross typologies to create a broad portfolio of recognized work.

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• David A. Rubin, FASLA, Founding Principal, DAVID RUBIN Land Collective
• Ken Smith, FASLA, Principal, Ken Smith workshop

Climate Smart Solutions for Everyday Community - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

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Climate Smart Solutions for Everyday Community - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Jan 22, 2019 1:29pm ‐ Jan 22, 2019 1:29pm

Credits: None available.

ASLA has identified climate change as a key issue for its members, and for the society at large. Representatives from ASLA’s multi-disciplinary blue ribbon panel on climate change and resilience will discuss panel findings and public-policy recommendations for mitigating and adapting to climate change through resilient design.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn about barriers to climate smart and resilient design and planning.
• Learn tools and techniques for effective community and public engagement.
• Learn how to apply environmental justice analysis for community projects.
• Learn about comprehensive public policies recommendations that assist design professional in creating climate smart, resilient communities.

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• Vaughn B. Rinner, FASLA, SITES AP, Owner, Vaughn Rinner Landscape Architect
• Tim Duggan, ASLA, Principal, Phronesis
• Diane Jones Allen, ASLA, Program Director, Associate Professor, The University of Texas at Arlington
• Adam Ortiz, Hon. ASLA, Prince George's County Government

Watershed Futures Intersections of Design and Policy - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

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Watershed Futures Intersections of Design and Policy - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Jan 22, 2019 11:19am ‐ Jan 22, 2019 11:19am

Credits: None available.

Learning Objectives:

• Explore projects addressing watershed scale planning and design strategies.
• Understand water scarcity and resources as part of a global dilemma and the role of landscape architects in bridging these issues.
• Examine strategies for creating socially and environmentally resilient urbanism and policies related to water systems.
• Discuss the role of policy leaders in urban design, planning, and landscape architecture.

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Uniting in Place: Designing Public Places that Bridge Divides and Promote Diversity - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

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Uniting in Place: Designing Public Places that Bridge Divides and Promote Diversity - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Jan 18, 2019 4:29pm ‐ Jan 18, 2019 4:29pm

Credits: None available.

In five U.S. cities, landscape architects are collaborating with civic leaders and local communities to create places that encourage shared experience among people of all backgrounds. Learn about strategies for designing public places that promote unity and diversity from practitioners working on the ground in Akron, Detroit, Memphis, and Philadelphia.

Learning Objectives:

• Find out how practitioners in cities across the United States are designing public places to promote diversity and bridge socioeconomic divides.
• Discover how designing for diversity is changing perceptions of and expectations for public assets in Akron, Detroit, Memphis, and Philadelphia.
• Learn about design techniques and planning strategies being employed to attract a diverse mix of people to public places and generate diverse constituencies for public assets.
• Consider how this ambition may be relevant to projects and initiatives in other cities.

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• Carol Coletta, President and CEO, Memphis River Parks Partnership
• Alexa Bush, ASLA, Urban Design Director - East Region, City of Detroit
• Shawn McCaney, ASLA, William Penn Foundation
• Meg Johnson, ASLA, Groundswell Design Group

This Land Is Our Land: Stewardship of Our Public Landscapes - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

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This Land Is Our Land: Stewardship of Our Public Landscapes - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Jan 18, 2019 4:29pm ‐ Jan 18, 2019 4:29pm

Credits: None available.

Iconic landscapes defining our nation's identity can alter our lives in deeply profound ways. They can also be intimidating and leave out significant portions of our collective histories. Three federal landscape architects and a nonprofit leader discuss our changing federal realm where design and community engagement matters.

Learning Objectives: 

• Consider what it means to care for and ensure our federal landscapes reflect the diversity of the American experience in all its complexity.
• Examine how our public landscapes shape community identity, improve quality of life and influence civic infrastructure.
• Explore the critical role federal landscape architects and local NGO partners play in stewarding public lands in times of environmental and social change, using tools of consensus-building, planning and design.
• Learn about public practice careers that are shifting the dialogue on the role of landscape architecture in the federal realm.

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• Senior Landscape Architect Jennifer Daniels, ASLA, Jen Daniels Consulting
• Mike Hill, ASLA, USDA Forest Service
• Chris Beagan, ASLA, U.S. National Park Service, Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation
• Phyllis Boyd, ASLA, Groundwork Indy

Design with Nurture - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

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Design with Nurture - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Jan 18, 2019 4:29pm ‐ Jan 18, 2019 4:29pm

Credits: None available.

The experience of women in the workplace and the importance of female leadership have recently catapulted to the forefront of American consciousness. In this context, three women in landscape architecture discuss the role of gender in their practices and design philosophies and make the case for valuing Design with Nurture.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn how different perspectives create stronger, inclusive, and safer designs
• Examine strategies to work more collaboratively (with design teams and contractors)
• Develop ways to encourage and engage women in design
• Gain insight into managing work/life balance

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• Michelle Arab, ASLA, Olson Kundig
• Michelle H. Crowley, ASLA, Crowley Cottrell, LLC
• Akiko Ono, ASLA, Shades of Green Landscape Architecture
• Adam Greenspan, ASLA, Partner, PWP Landscape Architecture

AI: Augmented Intelligence - Landscape Architects’ Design Sense Capitalizes on Big Data - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)

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AI: Augmented Intelligence - Landscape Architects’ Design Sense Capitalizes on Big Data - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)

Jan 18, 2019 4:29pm ‐ Jan 18, 2019 4:29pm

Credits: None available.

Augmented intelligence (AI) is disrupting the complexity where designers thrive. A new era of collaboration enables shift from data overload toward data sensibility. How will capitalizing on augmented intelligence affect your practice? Your productivity? Geodesign, a unique AI, provides distinctive opportunities—learn from practitioners successfully navigating this shift.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand how geospatial data provides augmented intelligence that is relevant for design practices (large and small) and opportunities how to utilize this most effectively.
• Learn the distinctive benefits and potential challenges of combining geospatial technology with landscape architecture design practices
• Be able to compare technologies that provide augmented intelligence and how best to leverage various approaches to collaboration using the geodesign approach
• Realize how landscape architecture’s skills and expertise are a perfect fit for leading geodesign teams and become inspired by these opportunities.

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• Kelleann Foster, ASLA, The Pennsylvania State University
• James Sipes, ASLA, Sand County Studios
• Jesse D. Suders, McCormick Taylor, Inc.

Where Land Meets Water: Rethinking the Shoreline in Urban Waterfronts - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

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Where Land Meets Water: Rethinking the Shoreline in Urban Waterfronts - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Jan 18, 2019 4:29pm ‐ Jan 18, 2019 4:29pm

Credits: None available.

In many cities, the threshold between land and sea is abrupt and impenetrable. Baltimore’s Inner Harbor is no exception. A new paradigm is emerging motivated by aquatic conservation and social justice. This session looks at design interventions that are transforming human and ecological interactions across the divide.

Learning Objectives:

• Participants will learn about the key design drivers and factors that contribute to ecological health in sensitive shoreline environments.
• Presenters will share strategies designers can use to collaborate with scientists and other non-designers to frame experiments and develop prototypes that test ideas and collect data.
• Prototyping tests ideas for fine-tuning before scaling-up. Participants will learn how the design process can be structured to allow adaptation of design concepts in response to discovery.
• Placemaking is an underlying goal of all landscape architecture, so participants will learn how ecological visioning plays a constructive role in unlocking the transformative potential of existing sites.

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• Jonathan Ceci, ASLA, Principal, Jonathan Ceci Landscape Architect
• Jacqueline Bershad, LEED AP, National Aquarium
• Christopher Streb, PE, Bioworks Practice Leader & Senior Ecological Engineer, Biohabitats, Inc.

Preserving Diversity: The Politics and Processes of Immigration in Landscape Architecture - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)

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Preserving Diversity: The Politics and Processes of Immigration in Landscape Architecture - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)

Jan 18, 2019 4:29pm ‐ Jan 18, 2019 4:29pm

Credits: None available.

International landscape architects make up an important part of the candidate pool. This panel will outline the immigration processes that are necessary to hire from abroad from both the candidate's and employer’s perspective, as well as review best legal practices that allow for successful use of the employment-based immigration program.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the current immigration processes, best practices, and how they relate to landscape architects.
• Discover methods for international students to enter US design schools and remain in the United States after graduation.
• Learn strategies for design firms to hire and retain international students or landscape architects from abroad.
• Keep up with the current administration’s immigration policies and understand how evolving policies can and do impact the profession.

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• Hana Ishikawa, Affil. ASLA, AIA, Design Principal, Site Design Group, Ltd.
• William Sullivan, ASLA, University of Illinois
• William A. Stock, Klasko Immigration Law Partners, LLP

Driverless Landscapes: Designing for People in Autonomous Futures - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

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Driverless Landscapes: Designing for People in Autonomous Futures - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Jan 18, 2019 4:29pm ‐ Jan 18, 2019 4:29pm

Credits: None available.

Expanding driverless vehicle use will force crucial recalibrations to streets, public spaces, and urban form. How can designers maintain human interests in increasingly autonomous cities? This panel of landscape architects and planning authorities will discuss initiatives to promote physical, ecological, and social sustainability through driverless technologies.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn about case studies of current design research and experiments in design regarding autonomous vehicles.
• Learn public engagement strategies and scenario based approaches to design.
• Understand development of planning policies in various cities due to autonomous vehicle growth.
• Examine the role of partnerships with local industries and academic institutions in designing for autonomous vehicles.

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• Ron Henderson, FASLA, Illinois Institute of Technology, Master of Landscape Architecture + Urbanism Program
• Raymond W. Gastil, AICP, LEED AP, City of Pittsburgh
• Nilay Mistry, ASLA, Illinois Institute of Technology, Master of Landscape Architecture + Urbanism Program
• Chris Landau, Affil. ASLA, Designer and Technologist, LANDAU Design+Technology