Making a Difference: Transforming Professional Practices for Proactive Change - 1.0 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Climate resilience and social justice have become issues central to the landscape architecture profession. However, opportunities to pursue careers outside mainstream practices to address these issues remained limited. This session provides insights from award-winning professionals who have pursued alternative careers, as well as opportunities within the current model of practice.

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Explore ways that the profession of landscape architecture can play a more active role in addressing important challenges of climate change and socioeconomic disparity.
Learn from innovative models of alternative practices.
Learn about ways to embed innovative approaches in existing practice.
Explore opportunities and challenges for transforming the current practices of landscape architecture.

This webinar is a session recording from ASLA’s virtual 2020 conference. Please check your LA CES PDH record (under the "Professional Development" tab in your ASLA member account on asla.org) if you are not sure whether you've already earned PDH for this presentation.

Brice Maryman, FASLA

Principal

MxM Landscape Architecture

Brice Maryman, PLA, FASLA is a founding principal with Seattle-based MxM Landscape Architecture. Whether working with developers, assembling parks master plans, coordinating green stormwater infrastructure systems, or managing the implementation of public streetscapes, he is passionately concerned with shaping empathetic landscapes that reveals a robust, and reciprocal, community of care. In 2017, he was awarded the Landscape Architecture Foundation's inaugural Fellowship for Innovation and Leadership, during which he focused on the intersection of homelessness and public space. His writing has appeared in several monographs and periodicals, and his work has received praise from the ASLA, APA, and AIA.

Leann Andrews, ASLA

Director

Traction

Leann Andrews is a landscape architect and global health researcher operating in the cracks of the profession halfway between academia and practice. Leann is Co-Founder/Director of the non-profit Traction. Traction’s award-winning work with vulnerable communities and environments is found across Peru, Nepal, Cambodia and the U.S. Leann currently co-directs the InterACTION Labs Iquitos program working with urban indigenous immigrants from the Amazon Rainforest to improve their health and restore damaged Amazon riverine ecosystems. Leann is a licensed landscape architect and received her PhD from University of Washington. She holds Affiliate Faculty appointments at Penn State and UW.

Chelina Odbert, Hon. ASLA

CEO

Kounkuey Design Initiative

Chelina is co-founder and Executive Director of KDI. She believes in the potential of low-cost, high-impact design interventions to improve the physical, economic, and social quality of life in low-income communities. Chelina’s expertise covers a range of topics including leadership, participatory planning, social entrepreneurship, urban development, environmental remediation, and social impact design. She has extensive field experience through her work in Africa, Latin America and the US. Having shaped KDI into an internationally recognized and award-winning design, planning and community development firm, she lectures and speaks around the world and writes about KDI’s community-engaged approach to planning and design.

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