The 2018 ASLA Annual Meeting and EXPO begins tomorrow, October 19! In addition to the events planned for PPN Live, each Professional Practice Network (PPN) leadership team 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 second half of these education highlights (see the sessions picked by ASLA’s 10 other PPNs in our previous post):
- International Practice
- Landscape—Land Use Planning
- Parks & Recreation
- Planting Design
- Residential Landscape Architecture
- Sustainable Design & Development
- Transportation
- Urban Design
- Water Conservation
- Women in Landscape Architecture
See below for the education sessions in each PPN topic area, or click the PPN name above to jump to that section.
International Practice PPN Meeting
Rethinking Landscape Interventions During Urban Renewal of Chinese Cities – 1.0 PDH LA CES / HSW
Saturday, October 20, 9:15 – 10:15 am
Fairmount Park Stage
International Practice—Education Sessions of Interest
FRI-A04 – Designing in Renewable Energy
FRI-A05 – Landscape Architecture in Global Health: Case Studies with Informal “Slum” Communities
FRI-B02 – Water as Leverage: Lessons in Water Management from the City of Rotterdam
FRI-C02 – Urban Park Systems as Ecological Infrastructure: International Case Studies
FRI-D09 – Water and Social Life in India: Lessons for Practice
SAT-A05 – How Minecraft Is Helping the United Nations Improve the World
SUN-A02 – Finding Design: Case Studies in the Creative Process
SUN-B04 – New Landscapes of Pluralism: Contemporary Influence of Islamic Gardens and Culture
MON-C02 – African Renaissance: A Continent on the Rise!
Landscape—Land Use Planning PPN Meeting (with the Campus Planning & Design PPN)
Sunday, October 21, 10:00 – 10:45 am
Fairmount Park Stage
Land Use Planning—Education Sessions of Interest
FRI-A01 – Resilience Planning for Social Equity
FRI-A02 – Listening to the Land: Reflections on Resilient Design from Ground Zero
FRI-A03 – This Land Is Our Land: Stewardship of our Public Landscapes
FRI-A04 – Designing in Renewable Energy
FRI-B10 – RPA 4th Regional Plan: Metro Natural Systems and Landscape Infrastructure Design
FRI-C02 – Urban Park Systems as Ecological Infrastructure: International Case Studies
SAT-A03 – Climate Smart Solutions for Everyday Community
SAT-B02 – Fire/Flood/Slide: The Other Impacts of Climate Change
MON-A03 – Clarifying Uncertainty: Field Notes from Tackling Climate Change Across the United States
MON-B05 – America the Beautiful: Protecting Place Through Policy, Persuasion, and Practice
MON-D05 – Watershed Futures: Intersections of Design and Policy
Parks & Recreation PPN Meeting (with the Children’s Outdoor Environments 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
Parks & Recreation—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-C02 – Urban Park Systems as Ecological Infrastructure: International Case Studies
FRI-C06 – Uniting in Place: Designing Public Places that Bridge Divides and Promote Diversity
FRI-D07 – The Disturbing Pleasures of Maintenance: Audacious Strategies for Public Parks
SAT-A08 – Just Spaces: All In!
SAT-B07 – Parks Without Borders: Unifying the Public Realm
SUN-A03 – The Lungs of the City: Landscape Design for Air Quality
SUN-A04 – Playing in Nature! Professional Risks Associated with Design of Nature Play Areas
SUN-A11 – Deck Parks—the Future of Open Space in our Cities?
SUN-B02 – Public Health, Water, and Environmental Justice: A Case for School Landscapes
MON-B04 – Elevating Lifelong Play Value to Create Healthy Communities
MON-D02 – Reasonable Uncertainty: A city, a Park, and a Garden Confront Climate Change
MON-D03 – The Case for Great Spaces: Staying Design Savvy with Limiting Project Parameters
Planting Design PPN Meeting
Sunday, October 21, 9:15 – 10:00 am
Dilworth Park Meeting Room
Planting Design—Education Sessions of Interest
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-015 – Chanticleer: Public Garden and Proving Ground for Extraordinary Garden Design
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-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
SUN-B07 – Myths, Truths, Misconceptions: Knowledge of Trees and Soils for Evidence-based Practice
MON-A01 – Edible Skyline: Pushing the Limits of Rooftop Agriculture
MON-A09 – Trees, Stormwater, and Suspended Pavements: Research and Reality
MON-B06 – Why Are Soils a Problem in Landscape Design and Construction?
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
Residential Landscape Architecture PPN Meeting (with the Design-Build PPN)
Sunday, October 21, 12:45 – 1:30 pm
PPN Lounge
Residential Landscape Architecture—Education Sessions of Interest
FRI-B04 – Bring the Inside Out: Blurring the Interior, Architecture, and Outdoor Interface
FRI-D01 – WeFabricate: Stewarding the Design Process with Craftsmen and Materials
SAT-A09 – Planting Design and Dynamic Stewardship Strategies for Resilient Cities
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
SUN-B07 – Myths, Truths, Misconceptions: Knowledge of Trees and Soils for Evidence-based Practice
MON-A01 – Edible Skyline: Pushing the Limits of Rooftop Agriculture
MON-B06 – Why Are Soils a Problem in Landscape Design and Construction?
MON-B09 – Rethinking Small Alleys: A Path to Big Hope
MON-C04 – Congratulations on Starting Your New Landscape Architectural Firm! Now What???
Sustainable Design & Development PPN Meeting
A Discussion of Sustainability at Different Scales – 1.0 PDH LA CES / HSW
Saturday, October 20, 12:45 – 1:45 pm
Rittenhouse Square Meeting Room
Sustainable Design & Development—Education Sessions of Interest
WS-005 – Navigating SITES v2 Certification and Preparing for the SITES AP Exam
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
FS-012 – Stewardship Philly Style: Design and Maintenance of William Penn’s City Squares
FRI-A01 – Resilience Planning for Social Equity
FRI-A02 – Listening to the Land: Reflections on Resilient Design from Ground Zero
FRI-A04 – Designing in Renewable Energy
FRI-A10 – Resilient Water Strategies: The Future of On-site Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
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-D05 – Preconstruction Management of Valuable Tree and Soil Resources – 1.5 SITES-specific CEUs
FRI-D07 – The Disturbing Pleasures of Maintenance: Audacious Strategies for Public Parks
SAT-A03 – Climate Smart Solutions for Everyday Community
SAT-A09 – Planting Design and Dynamic Stewardship Strategies for Resilient Cities
SAT-A10 – Design Like It Matters: Do Rating Systems Work?
SAT-A11 – SITES® Materials Credits for Project Life Cycle: Deconstruction, Reuse, Specification, and Maintenance – 1.5 SITES-specific CEUs
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
SAT-B08 – Enduring Landscapes: Stewardship from Concept Design to Maintenance and Management
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
MON-A02 – Urban Design for Coastal Flooding: A Landscape-led Design Strategy
MON-A03 – Clarifying Uncertainty: Field Notes from Tackling Climate Change Across the United States
MON-A05 – Ecosystem Services and Green Infrastructure: Understanding Valuation, Benefits, and SITES v2 Applications – 1.5 SITES-specific CEUs
MON-A09 – Trees, Stormwater, and Suspended Pavements: Research and Reality
MON-B07 – Informing Metropolitan Landscapes: Performance Lessons from Case Studies
MON-B10 – Toward an Ecology of the City
MON-C08 – Sustainability as Driver of Placemaking: Towne Square at Suitland Federal Center
MON-D01 – The Next Wave: Collaborative Solutions for Climate Adaptation
MON-D05 – Watershed Futures: Intersections of Design and Policy
MON-D07 – Evaluating Pittsburgh’s Green First Project Portfolio at Regional and Neighborhood Scales
Transportation PPN Meeting
Saturday, October 20, 12:45 – 1:30 pm
Dilworth Park Meeting Room
Transportation—Education Sessions of Interest
FS-014 – Like a Local: Life in the Streets and Gardens of Philadelphia
FRI-B08 – Placemaking Through Traffic Engineering: Creative Solutions in Streetscape Design
FRI-C08 – Beyond the Bollard: Creating Safer Environments Through Integrated Design
FRI-C10 – Driverless Landscapes: Designing for People in Autonomous Futures
SAT-A08 – Just Spaces: All In!
SAT-B10 – Designing for Autonomous Vehicles
SUN-A10 – Are You Ready for the Mobility Revolution?
Urban Design PPN Meeting
Sunday, October 21, 1:30 – 2:15 pm
Fairmount Park Stage
Urban Design—Education Sessions of Interest
FS-002: Bethlehem SteelStacks: Reforging the Cultural Legacy of the Lehigh Valley
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-A01 – Resilience Planning for Social Equity
FRI-A07 – Changing Chinatowns: Placemaking and Placekeeping
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-B08 – Placemaking Through Traffic Engineering: Creative Solutions in Streetscape Design
FRI-B09 – Art in Landscape Infrastructure
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-C06 – Uniting in Place: Designing Public Places that Bridge Divides and Promote Diversity
FRI-C08 – Beyond the Bollard: Creating Safer Environments Through Integrated Design
FRI-C10 – Driverless Landscapes: Designing for People in Autonomous Futures
SAT-A04 – 1960s and 1970s Plazas: Restore, Remodel, Redo?
SAT-B07 – Parks Without Borders: Unifying the Public Realm
SAT-B10 – Designing for Autonomous Vehicles
SAT-B11 – Public Open Space: The Driving Force in Detroit’s Transformation
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-A11 – Deck Parks—the Future of Open Space in our Cities?
SUN-B11 – Social Urbanism, Our Climate Culture, and the Politics that Frame Landscape Architecture
MON-A02 – Urban Design for Coastal Flooding: A Landscape-led Design Strategy
MON-A07 – Sensing the City: Resolution, Tech, and Application of Site-specific Data
MON-B07 – Informing Metropolitan Landscapes: Performance Lessons from Case Studies
MON-B09 – Rethinking Small Alleys: A Path to Big Hope
MON-B10 – Toward an Ecology of the City
MON-D07 – Evaluating Pittsburgh’s Green First Project Portfolio at Regional and Neighborhood Scales
Water Conservation PPN Meeting
Saturday, October 20, 12:45 – 1:30 pm
PPN Lounge
Water Conservation—Education Sessions of Interest
FRI-A02 – Listening to the Land: Reflections on Resilient Design from Ground Zero
FRI-A10 – Resilient Water Strategies: The Future of On-site Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
FRI-B02 – Water as Leverage: Lessons in Water Management from the City of Rotterdam
FRI-D09 – Water and Social Life in India: Lessons for Practice
MON-A09 – Trees, Stormwater, and Suspended Pavements: Research and Reality
MON-D07 – Evaluating Pittsburgh’s Green First Project Portfolio at Regional and Neighborhood Scales
Women in Landscape Architecture PPN Meeting
Saturday, October 20, 10:00 – 10:45 am
Fairmount Park Stage
Women in Landscape Architecture—Education Sessions of Interest
WS-006: Building the Business Case for Diversity and Inclusion
SAT-A06 – Time’s Up: Challenges and Rewards for Women Entrepreneurs in Landscape Architecture
SAT-B01 – Inside the LA Studio with Swift Company LLC
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
SUN-B03 – Amplifying the Landscape Architect’s Voice Within a Multidisciplinary Engineering Practice
MON-C04 – Congratulations on Starting Your New Landscape Architectural Firm! Now What???
MON-C05 – Ownership Transition: Build Teams, Not Walls
And, don’t miss the Women in Landscape Architecture Walk on Monday, October 22, organized and led by the ASLA Pennsylvania/Delaware Host Chapter! Check out the WILA Walk map, designed by Ground Reconsidered, for more information on the route and stops on the walk along Philadelphia’s iconic Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
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.