Annual Meeting Education Session Highlights, Part 1

Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square / image: Jon Lovette / Alamy Stock Photo

The 2018 ASLA Annual Meeting and EXPO begins this Friday in Philadelphia! In addition to the events planned for PPN Live, each Professional Practice Network (PPN) leadership team also reviews the annual meeting education program to highlight sessions relevant to their practice areas. With more than 130 courses, allowing attendees to earn up to 24 professional development hours (PDH), it is an extensive program to explore, and you can do so through the meeting website and mobile app by title, speaker, topic area, and PDH type (LA CES/HSW, LA CES/non-HSW, AIA, AICP, CMAA, FL, GBCI CE, GBCI SITES, ISA, NY, etc.).

Below, we run through the first half of these education highlights (stay tuned for sessions picked by ASLA’s 10 other PPNs this Thursday):

See below for the education sessions in each PPN topic area, or click the PPN name above to jump to that section.

Campus Planning & Design PPN Meeting (with the Landscape–Land Use Planning PPN)
Sunday, October 21, 10:00 – 10:45 am
Fairmount Park Stage

Campus Planning & Design—Education Sessions of Interest

FS-007 – Academia in Arcadia: Design, Sustainable Stewardship, and Pedagogy on Swarthmore’s Campus

FS-011 – University of Pennsylvania Campus—A Cultural and Environmental Legacy

SAT-A02 – Beyond Pretty Pictures: How Maintenance Matters More Than Design with Time

SUN-B02 – Public Health, Water, and Environmental Justice: A Case for School Landscapes

MON-B01 – The Space Between: Creating Intersection and Connection

ASLA 2018 Professional General Design Honor Award. Legacy and Community: Juxtaposing Heritage and Invention for Duke University’s West Campus, Durham, NC. Reed Hilderbrand LLC Landscape Architecture / image: James Ewing


Children’s Outdoor Environments PPN Meeting (with the Parks & Recreation PPN)
Parks, Play, and People: Equity and Community in Recreation – 1.0 PDH LA CES / HSW
Sunday, October 21, 9:15 – 10:15 am
Rittenhouse Square Meeting Room

Children’s Outdoor Environments—Education Sessions of Interest

FRI-A07 – Changing Chinatowns: Placemaking and Placekeeping

FRI-A08 – Play from the Ground Up: Playground Safety Surfacing in an Urban Context

FRI-B05 – Returning to Our Roots: It’s Time for a 21st Century Parks and Recreation Movement

FRI-C06 – Uniting in Place: Designing Public Places that Bridge Divides and Promote Diversity

FRI-D03 – This Is Your Brain on Green: Neuroscience and the Landscape

SAT-B07 – Parks Without Borders: Unifying the Public Realm

SUN-A04 – Playing in Nature! Professional Risks Associated with Design of Nature Play Areas

SUN-B02 – Public Health, Water, and Environmental Justice: A Case for School Landscapes

MON-B04 – Elevating Lifelong Play Value to Create Healthy Communities

ASLA 2018 Professional General Design Honor Award. Re-Envisioning Pulaski Park, Northampton, MA. STIMSON / image: Ngoc Doan


Design-Build PPN Meeting (with the Residential Landscape Architecture PPN)
Sunday, October 21, 12:45 – 1:30 pm
PPN Lounge

Design-Build—Education Sessions of Interest

FRI-A05 – Landscape Architecture in Global Health: Case Studies with Informal “Slum” Communities

FRI-C09 – Accelerating Multimodal Projects Through Collaborative Design: Insights into Working with Transportation Agencies

FRI-D01 – WeFabricate: Stewarding the Design Process with Craftsmen and Materials

FRI-D05 – Preconstruction Management of Valuable Tree and Soil Resources

FRI-D10 – BIM for the Small Landscape Architecture Office

SAT-A09 – Planting Design and Dynamic Stewardship Strategies for Resilient Cities

SAT-A11 – SITES® Materials Credits for Project Life Cycle: Deconstruction, Reuse, Specification, and Maintenance

SAT-B08 – Enduring Landscapes: Stewardship from Concept Design to Maintenance and Management

SUN-A06 – Toward a Cosmopolitan Flora: Creating and Managing Planting Systems for Better Cities

MON-A08 – Conversations and Confrontations: Notes from Hybridizing Design Practices

MON-A09 – Trees, Stormwater, and Suspended Pavements: Research and Reality

SUN-B02 – Public Health, Water, and Environmental Justice: A Case for School Landscapes

SUN-B07 – Myths, Truths, Misconceptions: Knowledge of Trees and Soils for Evidence-based Practice

MON-B06 – Why Are Soils a Problem in Landscape Design and Construction?

MON-C07 – You Want What!? Managing Client Expectations and Nature in Residential Landscape Architecture

MON-C09 – Drones 2.0: Exploring Nascent Design Applications for Unmanned Aerial Systems

MON-D03 – The Case for Great Spaces: Staying Design Savvy with Limiting Project Parameters

ASLA 2014 Student Analysis and Planning Honor Award. The Plexus Spine of North Philly, Philadelphia, PA. Jacqueline Martinez, Student ASLA, University of Pennsylvania / image: Jacqueline Martinez


Digital Technology PPN Meeting
Sunday, October 21, 12:45 – 1:30 pm
Dilworth Park Meeting Room

Digital Technology—Education Sessions of Interest

WS-004 – Digital Methods: Water + Dynamic Natural Systems of the Delaware Riverfront

FRI-A09 – AI: Augmented Intelligence—Landscape Architects’ Design Sense Capitalizes on Big Data

FRI-D10 – BIM for the Small Landscape Architecture Office

SUN-A09 – Testing Ground: Leveraging Emerging Technologies for Landscape Practice

MON-B08 – Immersive Technology That Supports Design Interventions in Informal Settlements: The Rio Studio

MON-C09 – Drones 2.0: Exploring Nascent Design Applications for Unmanned Aerial Systems

Ecology & Restoration PPN Meeting
Saturday, October 20, 1:30 – 2:15 pm
Fairmount Park Stage

Ecology & Restoration—Education Sessions of Interest

FS-004: Reinventing the River: Central and North Delaware Waterfronts (SOLD OUT)

FS-005 – Discover Bartram’s Garden and Bartram’s Mile Along the Schuylkill River Trail

FS-011 – University of Pennsylvania Campus—A Cultural and Environmental Legacy

WS-004 – Digital Methods: Water + Dynamic Natural Systems of the Delaware Riverfront

FRI-A02 – Listening to the Land: Reflections on Resilient Design from Ground Zero

FRI-B02 – Water as Leverage: Lessons in Water Management from the City of Rotterdam

FRI-B03 – Where Land Meets Water: Rethinking the Shoreline in Urban Waterfronts

FRI-B07 – Ecocities of the Future…Today: Addressing Economic and Ecological Imperatives

FRI-B10 – RPA 4th Regional Plan: Metro Natural Systems and Landscape Infrastructure Design

FRI-C02 – Urban Park Systems as Ecological Infrastructure: International Case Studies

FRI-C07 – Botanophilia and the Evolution of the Nursery Industry in the United States

FRI-D05 – Preconstruction Management of Valuable Tree and Soil Resources

SAT-A09 – Planting Design and Dynamic Stewardship Strategies for Resilient Cities

SAT-B02 – Fire/Flood/Slide: The Other Impacts of Climate Change

SAT-B03 – Stewardship of Meadows: Case Studies Using Ecological Design to Heal Degraded Landscapes

SUN-A03 – The Lungs of the City: Landscape Design for Air Quality

SUN-A06 – Toward a Cosmopolitan Flora: Creating and Managing Planting Systems for Better Cities

SUN-B02 – Public Health, Water, and Environmental Justice: A Case for School Landscapes

MON-A01 – Edible Skyline: Pushing the Limits of Rooftop Agriculture

MON-A02 – Urban Design for Coastal Flooding: A Landscape-led Design Strategy

MON-A05 – Ecosystem Services and Green Infrastructure: Understanding Valuation, Benefits, and SITES v2 Applications

MON-A07 – Sensing the City: Resolution, Tech, and Application of Site-specific Data

MON-A09 – Trees, Stormwater, and Suspended Pavements: Research and Reality

MON-B02 – Collaborative Restoration: Integrating Landscape Architecture and Ecology for Resilient Landscape Design

MON-B03 – Evidence-based Design: From Strategic Vision to Site Management

MON-B05 – America the Beautiful: Protecting Place Through Policy, Persuasion, and Practice

MON-B06 – Why Are Soils a Problem in Landscape Design and Construction?

MON-B10 – Toward an Ecology of the City

MON-C01 – The Ford Foundation: Restoring Dan Kiley’s Design and the Challenges Met

MON-C03 – Botanical Gardens: Designing Places for Enrichment and Growth in the 21st Century

MON-C08 – Sustainability as Driver of Placemaking: Towne Square at Suitland Federal Center

MON-D05 – Watershed Futures: Intersections of Design and Policy

MON-D06 – The Changing Landscape of Mourning: Evolving Trends in Cemetery Design and Commemoration

Independence Hall in Philadelphia / image: Sean Pavone


Education & Practice PPN Meeting
Saturday, October 20, 9:15 – 10:00 am
PPN Lounge

Education & Practice—Education Sessions of Interest

WS-003 – LAAB Accreditation Workshop

WS-006 – Building the Business Case for Diversity and Inclusion

FRI-B06 – Preserving Diversity: The Politics and Processes of Immigration in Landscape Architecture

FRI-D06 – Protecting the Public: Licensure Is at Risk and How to Respond

FRI-D08 – Turning Research into Practice: Using Research to Support and Inform Design Decisions

FRI-D09 – Water and Social Life in India: Lessons for Practice

SAT-A01 – Inside the LA Studio with DAVID RUBIN Land Collective

SAT-B01 – Inside the LA Studio with Swift Company LLC

SUN-A01 – Inside the LA Studio with Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects

SUN-A07 – Positive Changes in the Landscape: A Discussion on Female Leadership and Courage

SUN-A09 – Testing Ground: Leveraging Emerging Technologies for Landscape Practice

SUN-B01 – Inside the LA Studio with SCAPE

MON-A08 – Conversations and Confrontations: Notes from Hybridizing Design Practices

MON-C02 – African Renaissance: A Continent on the Rise!

Environmental Justice PPN Meeting
Environmental and Climate Justice in Community Design: Case Studies and Tools – 1.0 PDH LA CES / HSW
Sunday, October 21, 12:45 – 1:45 pm
Rittenhouse Square Meeting Room

Environmental Justice—Education Sessions of Interest

FRI-A01 – Resilience Planning for Social Equity

FRI-A05 – Landscape Architecture in Global Health: Case Studies with Informal “Slum” Communities

FRI-A06 – Design with Nurture

FRI-A07 – Changing Chinatowns: Placemaking and Placekeeping

FRI-B01 – The Future of Food in Our Landscapes: Growing Community

FRI-B06 – Preserving Diversity: The Politics and Processes of Immigration in Landscape Architecture

FRI-C03 – Thinking Inclusive: Strategies and Perspectives on Accessibility from Central Park’s Experience

FRI-C04 – Design Changes Place—Advocacy Changes People

FRI-C05 – After Charlottesville—Monuments, Public Memory, and Landscape Architecture: Precedents and Methodologies

FRI-C06 – Uniting in Place: Designing Public Places that Bridge Divides and Promote Diversity

FRI-D02 – A Framework for Equity: From Process to Product

FRI-D04 – Who Do We Work For? Improving Our Cities Without Disenfranchising Their Citizens

FRI-D09 – Water and Social Life in India: Lessons for Practice

SAT-A03 – Climate Smart Solutions for Everyday Community

SAT-A07 – Building Community Through Landscape: Lessons from the Field

SAT-A08 – Just Spaces: All In!

SUN-A03 – The Lungs of the City: Landscape Design for Air Quality

SUN-B02 – Public Health, Water, and Environmental Justice: A Case for School Landscapes

SUN-B06 – Improvement Without Gentrification: When Is Just Green Enough, Enough?

MON-A04 – Challenges and Opportunities for Landscape Architects in Affordable and Supportive Housing Projects

MON-D04 – Expanding the Roster: The Design Paradigm that Prioritizes Equity, Community, and Justice

Healthcare & Therapeutic Design PPN Meeting
Saturday, October 20, 9:15 – 10:00 am
Dilworth Park Meeting Room

Healthcare & Therapeutic Design—Education Sessions of Interest

FRI-D03 – This Is Your Brain on Green: Neuroscience and the Landscape

MON-A06 – Healing Time and Space In Between: An Interdisciplinary Look at Nature in Hospitals

MON-B04 – Elevating Lifelong Play Value to Create Healthy Communities

ASLA 2018 Professional Analysis and Planning Honor Award. Iowa Blood Run Cultural Landscape Master Plan, Lyon County, IA. Quinn Evans Architects / image: Dan Williams


Historic Preservation PPN Meeting
Sunday, October 21, 9:15 – 10:00 am
PPN Lounge

Historic Preservation—Education Sessions of Interest

FS-001 – Historic Gardens of Northern Delaware: Early 20th Century duPont Estates (SOLD OUT)

FS-005 – Discover Bartram’s Garden and Bartram’s Mile Along the Schuylkill River Trail

FS-008 – Morris Arboretum: Blending a Grand Historic Landscape with Sustainable Design Initiatives (SOLD OUT)

FS-010 – Schuylkill River Heritage Area Bicycle Tour: Philadelphia Water Works to Valley Forge (SOLD OUT)

FS-012 – Stewardship Philly Style: Design and Maintenance of William Penn’s City Squares

FS-014 – Like a Local: Life in the Streets and Gardens of Philadelphia

FRI-C03 – Thinking Inclusive: Strategies and Perspectives on Accessibility from Central Park’s Experience

FRI-C05 – After Charlottesville—Monuments, Public Memory, and Landscape Architecture: Precedents and Methodologies

SAT-A04 – 1960s and 1970s Plazas: Restore, Remodel, Redo?

SAT-B06 – Landscapes of Conflict and Memory

MON-B05 – America the Beautiful: Protecting Place Through Policy, Persuasion, and Practice

MON-C01 – The Ford Foundation: Restoring Dan Kiley’s Design and the Challenges Met

MON-D06 – The Changing Landscape of Mourning: Evolving Trends in Cemetery Design and Commemoration

ASLA 2016 Student Collaboration Honor Award. Seeding Sideyards, Philadelphia, PA. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / image: Fatemeh Saeidi-Rizi, Associate ASLA (Vision Design / Perspective Specialist)


Housing & Community Design PPN Meeting
Saturday, October 20, 9:15 – 10:00 am
PPN Lounge

Housing & Community—Education Sessions of Interest

FRI-A05 – Landscape Architecture in Global Health: Case Studies with Informal “Slum” Communities

FRI-A07 – Changing Chinatowns: Placemaking and Placekeeping

FRI-B01 – The Future of Food in Our Landscapes: Growing Community

FRI-D02 – A Framework for Equity: From Process to Product

FRI-D04 – Who Do We Work For? Improving Our Cities Without Disenfranchising Their Citizens

SAT-A03 – Climate Smart Solutions for Everyday Community

SAT-A07 – Building Community Through Landscape: Lessons from the Field

SAT-B11 – Public Open Space: The Driving Force in Detroit’s Transformation

SUN-B06 – Improvement Without Gentrification: When Is Just Green Enough, Enough?

SUN-B11 – Social Urbanism, Our Climate Culture, and the Politics that Frame Landscape Architecture

MON-A04 – Challenges and Opportunities for Landscape Architects in Affordable and Supportive Housing Projects

MON-B04 – Elevating Lifelong Play Value to Create Healthy Communities

MON-B09 – Rethinking Small Alleys: A Path to Big Hope

MON-C08 – Sustainability as Driver of Placemaking: Towne Square at Suitland Federal Center

MON-D04 – Expanding the Roster: The Design Paradigm that Prioritizes Equity, Community, and Justice

If you can’t make it to Philadelphia this year, several sessions will be recorded and shared as Online Learning webinars so you can still learn about the latest in landscape architecture and earn some professional development hours.

image: Ferran Traité Soler

Keep an eye on The Field as we continue to highlight ASLA Annual Meeting and EXPO events through the start of the meeting on Friday, October 19. We look forward to seeing you in Philadelphia!

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