Recorded Presentations

Mar 4, 2013 ‐ Dec 18, 2017

Landscape Heritage: Revealing Invisible Landscapes - 1.0 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

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Landscape Heritage: Revealing Invisible Landscapes - 1.0 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Nov 16, 2020 4:00pm ‐ Nov 16, 2020 5:00pm

Credits: None available.

The study and amplification of cultural landscapes offer practitioners and students new opportunities to understand the impact of uncovering historic landscapes and landscape strategies to reflect multi-cultural stories and histories that promote more inclusive and creative placemaking.

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• Gain a perspective from Black designers about unrecognized black landscapes.
• Learn of contemporary work revealing unrecognized black landscapes and will stay current on emerging professionals utilizing landscape architecture as a means of healing and bridging community.
• Learn how these activities and investigations impact professional and academic platforms.
• Learn how these practices are relevant to other community and social-based activities within the ASLA.

• Ms. Ujijji Davis, ASLA, Associate, SmithGroup
• Whitney Barr, ASLA, Master of Landscape Architecture Candidate, University of Georgia
• Ms. Anjelyque Easley, Student ASLA, Emerging Professional, University of Texas at Arlington

The Sole Practitioner: From Surviving to Thriving - 1.0 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)

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The Sole Practitioner: From Surviving to Thriving - 1.0 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)

Nov 16, 2020 4:00pm ‐ Nov 16, 2020 5:00pm

Credits: None available.

What’s it really like to run your own shop? Join three landscape architects who have taken the plunge as sole practitioners. In this session, you’ll hear an honest conversation about the risks and rewards of sole practice as they discuss work/life balance, business practices, social bias, and much more.

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• What are the positives and negatives of sole practice? Does it fit your professional goals, your lifestyle, and your financial goals? Determining strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
• Review of legal and economic considerations, including start-up costs and tools for financing. Learn about loans, lines of credit, and personal investment.
• How to get the work done and be profitable. The ins and outs of office space, computers, work-flow, and collaboration.
• How to go from being an employee to an owner. Business development tools, networking, and client maintenance.

• Mr. Michael Radner, ASLA, President, Radner Design Associates, Inc.
• Ms. Tanya N. Mandel, ASLA, PLA, Principal, Mandel Design LLC
• Mrs. Jaime Sims, ASLA, Founder, Circle V Landscape Architecture, LLC

Make a Splash: Dynamic Water as a Design Opportunity - 1.0 PDH (LA CES/HSW) / 1.0 GBCI SITES-Specific CE

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Make a Splash: Dynamic Water as a Design Opportunity - 1.0 PDH (LA CES/HSW) / 1.0 GBCI SITES-Specific CE

Nov 16, 2020 4:00pm ‐ Nov 16, 2020 5:00pm

Credits: None available.

Climate change has created increasingly volatile water that may overwhelm our stormwater systems. As a response to this threat, site design can create advantageous opportunities, from strengthening sustainability to improving social welfare. This panel explores designing for a changing climate through four projects of varying scale and geographic context.

The GBCI course ID for this course is 0920023417, 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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• Learn about current trends and principles of designing with water—surviving, adapting, and thriving in the face of climate change.
• Identify opportunities to treat stormwater in design as a resource rather than a threat by leveraging it for improved sustainability and social welfare.
• Understand how landscape architecture design can help shift the public’s perception of stormwater and flooding.
• Utilize innovative strategies and techniques of stormwater management and flood control, drawing from case studies that range in scale from master plans to site-specific examples.

• Muhan Cui, ASLA, LEED AP, Associate, Sasaki
• Chao Yang, ASLA, landscape architect, Andropogon Associates, Ltd.
• Mr. Kevin Hebard, PE, Associate Engineer, Sasaki

Anti-racist Design Education and Practice with Dark Matter University - 1.0 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

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Anti-racist Design Education and Practice with Dark Matter University - 1.0 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Nov 16, 2020 2:15pm ‐ Nov 16, 2020 3:15pm

Credits: None available.

In this session, designers with Dark Matter University will share their experiences and efforts to explore ideas and actions for how design and landscape architecture institutions and practices can better acknowledge and address racism in the profession, education, and practice.

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• Learn how racism and whiteness in the built environment fields impact communities of color and practitioners in the field.
• Learn the concepts of design justice as they connect social justice to design and built environment practices beyond only diversity and inclusion or community engagement practices.
• Learn how to contribute to future dialogues around anti-racism/anti-Black racism education in the profession.
• Learn how to engage and support new efforts catalyzed by the 2020 pandemic and protests such as Dark Matter University and Design as Protest to address racism in landscape architecture education and practice.

• Mr. Justin G. Moore, AICP, LEED AP, Dark Matter University
• Jennifer Low, Board, The Urban Studio
• Kiki Cooper, Assoc. ASLA, Landscape Designer, Verdant Landscape Architecture
• Dr. Maria Villalobos, Assistant Professor. Master in Landscape Architecture and Urbanism, IIT. College of Architecture

Take Action! Three Stories on Mentorship, Representation, and Leadership - 1.0 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)

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Take Action! Three Stories on Mentorship, Representation, and Leadership - 1.0 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)

Nov 16, 2020 2:15pm ‐ Nov 16, 2020 3:15pm

Credits: None available.

Life is extremely busy. But what happens when time is set aside to mentor our next generation ? Three presenters with diverse backgrounds come together for a discussion on how landscape architects can mentor through leadership and youth engagement to promote inclusivity and diversity within our profession.

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• Explore the role of representation in creating a more diversified and equitable profession.
• Highlight the barriers that prevent and deter many students of color (specifically black and Latinx students) from pursuit of design careers.
• Discover the importance of youth engagement and mentorship in landscape architecture.
• Learn tips on how to encourage landscape architects to take action for the future and growth of the profession while balancing a career and family.

• Nicole Plunkett, ASLA, Partner, Cotleur & Hearing
• Kendra Hyson, ASLA, Co-Founder, The Urban Studio
• Abdias Dalisma, ASLA, Project Manager, Landscape Design Plus

Fire Across the Pacific: Australia, California and the Climate Crisis - 1.0 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

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Fire Across the Pacific: Australia, California and the Climate Crisis - 1.0 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Nov 16, 2020 2:15pm ‐ Nov 16, 2020 3:15pm

Credits: None available.

Within the context of increased wildfire vulnerability in both Australia and California, this session will examine ways each builds resilience within communities vulnerable to wildfire. Through both theoretical and practice-based lenses, the panel will discuss topics ranging between social capital, stewardship and management practices, WUI policies, insurance, and infrastructure.

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• Gain knowledge of wildfire adaptation and resilient infrastructure planning within the Wildland Urban Interface.
• Understand of the specific history and causation of Australian bushfires, their parallels with and differences from California wildfires, and the resources, knowledge, practices, and technologies shared between the two.
• Gain knowledge of risk management, land stewardship, and insurance structures as they relate to establishing resilient and equitable communities within fire adapted landscapes
• Gain an understanding of the Fire Adaptive Communities, Fire Safe Councils, and the role of social capital in establishing cultural resiliency.

• Mr. Greg Kochanowski, AIA, Principal / Studio Director, Rios Clementi Hale Studios
• Molly Peterson, Climate Journalist, KQED Science
• Richard Mullane, Affiliate ASLA, Principal / Environment & Communities Sector Leader, Hassell

Perpetual Adaptation: The Design Business in 2020 and Lessons from the Great Recession - 1.0 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)

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Perpetual Adaptation: The Design Business in 2020 and Lessons from the Great Recession - 1.0 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)

Nov 16, 2020 2:15pm ‐ Nov 16, 2020 3:15pm

Credits: None available.

This session was proposed within the longest period of economic expansion in U.S. history, and focused on lessons learned for firms and young professionals before the next downturn. Nine months later, we are facing a pandemic-driven recession. This session will to share how our firms have been adapting to the economic challenges of the year, plans moving forward, and comparing, contrasting and learning from the experiences of the Great Recession.

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• Learn an array of approaches, marketing, and management strategies firms of various sizes deployed during the 2008 recession from each firm.
• Critically review what strategies worked for getting firms through the Great Recession, and what is different about the current recession.
• Review and participate in discussions regarding continuously shifting responses to the 2020 recession.
• Review advice from professionals who entered practice during and after the Great Recession for current students entering the profession.
• Share preparations for 2021, and how each firm is prepositioning for different potential market futures.

• Mr. Rene Bihan, FASLA, Managing Principal, SWA Group
• Molly Bourne, ASLA, Principal, MNLA
• Mr. Chris Hardy, ASLA, LEED AP, Senior Associate, Sasaki
• Mr. Michael Grove, FASLA, Principal / Chair of Landscape Architecture, Civil Engineering, and Ecology, SASAKI

The “Not so Inconvenient” Truth of Carbon and Landscape Architecture - 1.0 PDH (LA CES/HSW) / 1.0 GBCI SITES-Specific CE

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The “Not so Inconvenient” Truth of Carbon and Landscape Architecture - 1.0 PDH (LA CES/HSW) / 1.0 GBCI SITES-Specific CE

Nov 16, 2020 2:15pm ‐ Nov 16, 2020 3:15pm

Credits: None available.

With the global imperative for carbon emission reductions and sequestration, landscape architects can play a critical role in maximizing their capacity to realistically mitigate climate change. This session will review the carbon conundrum from our profession’s perspective and provide context, tools, and strategies toward achieving climate-positive design.

The GBCI course ID for this course is 0920023418, 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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• Understand the landscape architect’s carbon footprint and handprint.
• Identify the differences between embedded, operational, and sequestered carbon.
• Understand strategies and tools to evaluate and improve the carbon capacity of any project.
• Understand advocacy with manufacturers and how to reduce carbon impacts of construction materials.

• Meg Calkins, FASLA, SITES AP, Department Head and Professor of Landscape Architecture, North Carolina State University
• José Almiñana, FASLA, LEED AP, SITES AP, Principal, Andropogon Associates, Ltd.
• Pamela Conrad, ASLA, LEED AP, Principal, CMG Landscape Architecture

Navigating Community Engagement During COVID-19: Perspective, Practice, Prospect - 1.0 PDH (LA CES/HSW) / 1.0 AICP

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Navigating Community Engagement During COVID-19: Perspective, Practice, Prospect - 1.0 PDH (LA CES/HSW) / 1.0 AICP

Jul 8, 2020 3:00pm ‐ Jul 8, 2020 4:00pm

Credits: None available.

Community engagement is an essential component of landscape architecture practice and is often required for projects to move forward. Collaborating with the public is key to better planning, better design, better decisions, and better outcomes. But the COVID-19 pandemic brings new challenges to this critical aspect of our work – gatherings are limited, online tools are still being developed, and internet access can become essential to participation. Engaging and empowering communities requires new strategies and approaches. Effective public engagement that emphasizes human connections can still occur, even if it looks and feels different from pre-COVID-19 meetings.

Learning Objectives:

• Employ strategic thinking to determine if and how a project may advance given any barriers to engagement.
• Explore how to build an equitable and responsible engagement approach under the limitations of physical distancing, leveraging existing tools differently.
• Identify strategies to address or plan for behavior changes from in-person meetings and presentations to virtual meetings.

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.

AICP members are responsible for logging Certification Maintenance (CM) credits and managing their online CM log. Please visit the Certification Maintenance section of APA’s website to claim your credits.

1. Log in using your APA ID number and website password.
2. Click the green "CM Log" button.
3. From section, "Add Credits," select “Add Events”
4. Using the CM Search option, type in the name of the event or event number (#9202560) and click "Go."
5. After locating your event, click on the "Add to My Log" text (see arrow below) to add to My Log.
6. Please rate the event, add a comment (optional).
7. After you Submit, your CM credits will be added to your CM log and you will see a confirmation in the green bar confirming that you have "Successfully submitted your claim."

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• Allysha Lorber, ASLA, AICP, Johnson, Mirmiran and Thompson
• Jean Senechal Biggs, ASLA, Transportation Planning Manager, City of Beaverton
• Tracee Strum-Gilliam, AICP, Director, PRR
• Jeanne Lawson, Founding Principal, JLA
• Om Khurjekar, ASLA, PLA, LEED AP+ Principal, Principal, HORD COPLAN MACHT

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
• Mrs. Haley Blakeman, FASLA, Assistant Professor, LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture