Speaker(s): Kona A. Gray, FASLA | David C. Malda, ASLA, LEED AP | Michael Batts, ASLA, LEED AP | Jason Ficht, ASLA

To create more equitable ideas, we need to create an inclusive design process with multiple and sometimes conflicting points of views. Our current WFH situation is a potential danger to forcing our design process and ideas to become more siloed. Equitable access to design technology coupled with the intentional incorporation of virtual tools will help us bridge the creativity and collaboration gap caused by the physical separation of our teams.

As our profession continues to develop a comfort level with remote-working situations, this course will help empower your site design process by evolving your design methods, technologies, and application. Through the knowledge received from this course, you will be able to further design with health, safety and welfare in mind, even when working in unconventional office environments.

Learning Objectives:

1. Learn how drawing still matters in virtual design and collaboration.
2. Explore virtual tools and techniques for design and collaboration.
3. Understand what we have learned through this year of drawing and collaboration.
4. Consider how virtual collaboration translates into a hybrid office model.

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Speaker(s): Carolina Aragon, ASLA | Nina Chase, ASLA | Sierra Bainbridge, ASLA | Gretchen Rabinkin, Affiliate ASLA, AIA

Landscape architects are carefully and creatively designing engagement processes that are vital to successfully navigating increasingly complex issues. In this webinar, three designers working in different scales and cultures, will share tools on how to create community engagement that truly meets people where they are.

Learning Objectives:

1. Explore the practice of immersive, community-engaged design from local and global perspectives, across a range of project sizes and types.
2. Examine how existing methods for engagement have fallen short of inclusivity, and identify ways to create engagement processes that encourage more diverse audiences.
3. Discuss lessons learned, best practices and emerging models for equitable engagement in vulnerable communities.
4. Discuss how inclusive engagement processes are a means to invite productive dialogue around pressing issues that impact landscape architecture projects, such as climate change and environmental justice.
5. Identify ways to measure impact of specific tools and techniques.
6. Identify approaches for incorporating community input into physical design.

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Speaker(s): Anthony Fettes, ASLA, PLA, SITES AP | Nick Nelson, CERP

Throughout southeastern Massachusetts, working cranberry bogs are being abandoned or retired as cranberries are being grown more cost-effectively elsewhere in the U.S. and around the world. As cranberry farms were developed within former wetlands and along stream channels, they have been described as one of the leading factors in the loss of wetland function within the state. Retiring cranberry farms provides an opportunity to reclaim these wetlands and rescue these lands after hundreds of years of post-colonial impacts. These restored wetlands provide increased aquatic and terrestrial habitat, improved ecosystem functions, improved water quality, improved fish passage, and climate resiliency. This method of restoration also provides a model or restoration of other farmland in former inland or coastal wetlands. We will discuss the restoration opportunities and design elements, the linkages and working relationships with landscape architecture and site experience, and potentially view active construction activities on a former cranberry bog in southeastern Massachusetts.

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe how the cranberry bogs developed into the form they are today when actively being farmed.
2. Define the impacts and stressors that this agriculture has on the streams, wetlands, and ecosystems.
3. Identify and describe multiple restoration techniques and the linkages between the restored ecology and the viewer experience.

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Speaker(s): Jose Gutierrez, ASLA | Prof. Jeffrey Hou, ASLA | Mel Isidor

This panel introduces leading voices who employ design activism in their work within black and immigrant communities in the United States. Participants will learn about how community design processes can be employed to celebrate the outstanding historical and cultural contribution of black and immigrant communities.

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Speaker(s): Gina Ford, FASLA | Mr. David Fletcher, ASLA | Maura Rockcastle, ASLA

Three contemporary designers and practice leaders will share the inspiration, grit, persistence, and craft behind their favorite recently realized details. These stories will explore how the big idea of a project finds itself in the smallest details of the project execution.

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Speaker(s): Alexa Vaughn-Brainard, Assoc. ASLA | Danielle Toronyi | Derrick Behm-Josa

Although disabled people make up the largest global minority, they spend their lives adapting to the built environment, which limits human experience, inclusion, and participation in the public realm. Through the lens of DeafScape, we will discover ways to design with the Deaf community, and beyond, through Universal Design.

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Speaker(s): Chris Reed | Millicent Harvey | Alex S. MacLean | Michael Belleme

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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Speaker(s): Peter Caldwell, ASLA | Luis Gerardo Guajardo, AICP | Jesus Lardizabal

If our goal is to develop a community that is accessible to all, why do we only use the minimum requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act? We will examine the current approach to accessibility and look at simple, intuitive strategies for developing a complete community, with access as an integral component.

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Speaker(s): Susan Cohen, FASLA | Kathryn Gustafson, FASLA | Walter Hood, ASLA

Reaching beyond the constraints of their sites, landscape architects often create works that are striking, unique, and memorable in concept and realization. This session explores ways in which an active imagination and a creative spirit fuel the design process in the work of landscape architects known for their inspired designs.

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Speaker(s): Michael Batts, ASLA, LEED AP | Kona A. Gray, FASLA | David C. Malda, ASLA, LEED AP

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.

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