Recorded Presentations

Mar 4, 2013 ‐ Dec 18, 2017

Cultural Diversity in Design: Uniting Communities Through Cultural Celebration - 1.0 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

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Cultural Diversity in Design: Uniting Communities Through Cultural Celebration - 1.0 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Dec 19, 2019 1:00pm ‐ Dec 19, 2019 1:00pm

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By encapsulating and expressing the diversity of a community’s culture, landscapes in the public realm can become places that draw neighbors together in a beautiful way. Learn methods and processes to create authentic celebrations of culture, providing uplifting experiences for everyone; all ages, all abilities, all economic groups, all cultures.

• Recognize cultural appropriation and distinguish it from cultural celebration.
• Understand ways to identify cultural heritage and reflect the distinct spirit of a community.
• Identify common missteps in creating welcoming and inclusive places.
• Learn to embed community identity in landscapes through careful use of materials, color, and form.

• Amy Mitchell, ASLA, Landscape Architect and Senior Project Manager, MIG, INC.
• Jose de Jesus Leal, ASLA, Director of Sacramento Operations, MIG
• Mario Schjetnan, FASLA, Director, Grupo de Diseno Urbano

Ideas Lab: Four Unique Riverfront Visions for Reinventing the Nation’s Third Coast - 1.0 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

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Ideas Lab: Four Unique Riverfront Visions for Reinventing the Nation’s Third Coast - 1.0 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Dec 18, 2019 2:00pm ‐ Dec 18, 2019 2:00pm

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Inspired by urban waterfront transformations around the country, the Chicago River Edge Ideas Lab exhibition explored innovative concepts for placemaking along the Chicago River. Four unique visions demonstrate how riverfronts can reclaim their use as recreational and natural resources, catalyze development, and become hubs of entertainment and civic life.

• Learn how city officials worked with landscape architects to engage the public in a visioning process aimed at establishing actionable development guidelines.
• Explore the forward-thinking riverfront design concepts from four landscape architecture firms.
• Gain insight into recent planning initiatives, built projects, and future planned projects along the riverfront influenced by a large-scale visioning process.
• Understand the challenges and successes of urban riverfront development and open space design.

• Hana Ishikawa, Affil. ASLA, AIA, Design Principal, Site Design Group, Ltd.
• Kate Tooke, ASLA, Associate Principal, Sasaki
• Sara W. Astheimer, ASLA, Principal and Director, James Corner Field Operations
• Ying-Yu Hung, FASLA, Managing Principal, SWA Group

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

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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.
• Mr. Keith Bowers, FASLA, President, Biohabitats, Inc.
• 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

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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, Founding Principal, Studio Zewde

Equity and Inclusion in Practice: How Do We Get There? - 1.25 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)

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Equity and Inclusion in Practice: How Do We Get There? - 1.25 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)

Dec 18, 2019 11:00am ‐ Dec 18, 2019 11:00am

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Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are commonly cited today, but what do they really mean? An introduction will provide an overview of the current state of the profession and why DEI matters. Panelists will then share exemplary practices they are using to recruit new voices and build inclusive practices.

• Understand why diversity, equity, and inclusion are important to the profession of landscape architecture.
• Examine the challenges and successes of different approaches to equity and inclusion in the workplace.
• Learn unique strategies to help your academic and professional recruitment efforts.
• Gain insight into institutional tools available to support and quantify efforts to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion.

• Roberto J. Rovira, ASLA, Associate Professor / Principal, Florida International University / Studio Roberto Rovira
• Mr. Michael Grove, FASLA, Principal / Chair of Landscape Architecture, Civil Engineering, and Ecology, SASAKI
• Debra Guenther, FASLA, Design Partner, Mithun

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

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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

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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.

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• 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, Urban 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

Picturing Landscape - 1.25 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)

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Picturing Landscape - 1.25 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)

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

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How do we picture landscapes? Three prominent photographers, working differently with designed, urban, and climate-affected landscapes, will share their work and thoughts on how they capture landscapes and how this might inform our work as designers.

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• Gain insights on designed, natural, and built landscapes from photographers who make landscape the subject of their work.
• Understand the varied and diverse ways professionals from outside the discipline of landscape architecture understand landscape, and the ways in which this might inform our work.
• Learn how photographers move through and experience designed and built landscape.
• Consider how the perspectives of others engaged in the medium of landscape could help inform our individual and collective marketing and business development strategies.

• Chris Reed, Design Director, Stoss Landscape Urbanism
• Millicent Harvey, Professional Photographer, Millicent Harvey Photography
• Alex S. MacLean, Aerial Photographer, Landslides Aerial Photography
• Michael Belleme, Owner, Mike Belleme Photography

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

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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