The 2019 ASLA Conference on Landscape Architecture begins tomorrow, November 15, in San Diego! In addition to the events planned for PPN Live, each Professional Practice Network (PPN) leadership team also reviews the conference education program to highlight sessions relevant to their practice areas. With more than 120 courses, allowing attendees to earn up to 21 professional development hours (PDH), it is an extensive program to explore, and you can do so through the conference website and mobile app by keyword, topic area, speaker, who should attend, and PDH type offered (LA CES/HSW, LA CES/non-HSW, FL, NY, GBCI CE, GBCI SITES, ISA, and more).
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 Education Session
Promoting International Landscape Practice Through the Shanghai Landscape Forum – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW, AICP, FL)
Saturday, November 16, 11:00 am – 12:15 pm
Room 22
International Practice—Education Sessions of Interest
SAT-A02 – Puerto Rico: Holding on to the Future/Aferrado al Futuro
SAT-A04 – Finding Design: Case Studies in the Creative Process
SAT-A05 – Promoting International Landscape Practice Through the Shanghai Landscape Forum
SUN-C07 – Shifting Trends: Exploring SITES Opportunities in China
MON-A04 – Traversing the Line: On Spatial Borders and Social Equity
GS-002 – No Time to Waste: Landscape Architecture and the Global Challenge of Climate Change
Landscape—Land Use Planning PPN Meeting
Sunday, November 17, 10:15 – 11:00 am
PPN Live Meeting Room
Land Use Planning—Education Sessions of Interest
FRI-B02 – Solving for Resilience: A Multi-Faceted Approach
SAT-A03 – I Can See Clearly Now – Landscape Design for Air Quality
SAT-C03 – Greenways to Gene-Ways: A Call To Action
SAT-C04 – Creating Community: How Providing Missing Middle Housing Can Make Better Neighborhoods
SUN-C02 – Hot Topic: Integrating Wildfire Resilience into Planning and Design
MON-A05 – The ReImagined River: Fifty-One Miles of Connected Open Space
Parks & Recreation PPN Meeting
Sunday, November 17, 12:30 – 1:15 pm
PPN Live Meeting Room
Parks & Recreation—Education Sessions of Interest
FS-001 – Balboa Park: Past, Present, and Future (sold out!)
FS-007 – San Diego’s Waterfront and Urban Parks (sold out!)
SAT-A06 – Parks Equity: Fostering Access to Great Public Parks for All
SAT-B04 – Cultural Diversity in Design: Uniting Communities Through Cultural Celebration
SAT-C08 – Green Schoolyards: Local Urban Transformation to National Prototype
SUN-C06 – Two Parks/Two Boroughs/One River: Hunter’s Point South Park and Domino Park
MON-B07 – Nature, Adventure and Destination: Departures from Status Quo in Public Play Environments
MON-B08 – Measuring What Matters: Metrics to Capture the Social Impacts of Public Spaces
Planting Design PPN Meeting
Saturday, November 16, 1:00 – 1:45 pm
PPN Live Meeting Room
Planting Design—Education Sessions of Interest
FRI-B07 – Landscape Resiliency Through Integrated Planting Design and Management
SAT-B08 – Ecotrace: Layering Ecology Into Practice
SAT-C11 – Super (Technical) Heroes of Hudson Yards; Structure, Soils, and the Civic Realm
SUN-B08 – Situation Normal: All Mocked Up
SUN-B11 – The Role of Stormwater Management in Landscape Architecture
MON-A07 – Integrating Ecology and Technology to Maximize Beneficial Impacts
Residential Landscape Architecture / Design-Build PPN Meeting
Sunday, November 17, 12:30 – 1:15 pm
PPN Live Meeting Room
Residential Landscape Architecture—Education Sessions of Interest
FRI-A03 – The Business of Innovation: Three Case Studies in Unconventional Practice
FRI-B04 – Drawing Matters: Exploring the Value of Drawing in Landscape Architecture
SAT-B02 – Do You Speak Developer? Translating and Communicating the Value of Landscape Architecture
SAT-B06 – Contracts: Relationships, Rights, and Risk Management
SAT-C04 – Creating Community: How Providing Missing Middle Housing Can Make Better Neighborhoods
SUN-B08 – Situation Normal: All Mocked Up
SUN-C05 – The Evolution of the Front Yard: From Display Garden to Multi-Use Space
Sustainable Design & Development PPN Meeting
Saturday, November 16, 12:30 – 1:30 pm
Marketing the Sustainable SITES Initiative & Return on Investment – 1.0 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
PPN Live Stage
Sustainable Design & Development—Education Sessions of Interest
DD-001 – Boots on the Ground: Measuring Landscape Performance in the Field
FRI-A08 – IT Flows Downhill: CSO and Wastewater Treatment as an Integrated Design Strategy
SAT-A08 – Climate, Mobility, and Community: Systems Thinking and the Future of Food
SUN-A08 – Fact Check: Assessing Landscape Performance in Research and Practice
SUN-C07 – Shifting Trends: Exploring SITES Opportunities in China
For a list of sessions offering SITES-specific credit, see the SITES Education page.
Transportation PPN Meeting
Saturday, November 16, 9:30 – 10:15 am
PPN Live Meeting Room
Transportation—Education Sessions of Interest
FRI-A10 – Manassas Street, A Tactical and Artistic Urban Street Transformation in Memphis
FRI-B10 – Kennedy Greened: A Streetscape Planned, Designed, and Now Built!
SAT-A11 – Resilient Streets: Expanding Public Realm and Mobility
SUN-B10 – Challenging Cultural Norms: Transportation, Art, and Placemaking in the American South
MON-A08 – A Design Framework for Livable Streets in the Era of Autonomous Vehicles
Urban Design PPN Meeting
Sunday, November 17, 11:30 am – 12:15 pm
PPN Live Meeting Room
Urban Design—Education Sessions of Interest
DD-003 – Evolving a Modernist Mecca: The Legacy, Life, and Landscape of Columbus, Indiana
FRI-B09 – Ideas Lab: Four Unique Riverfront Visions for Reinventing the Nation’s Third Coast
SAT-B11 – After Whyte: The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces Forty Years Later
SUN-C10 – UPSTREAM URBANISM: Redefining the Role of the Landscape Architect as City Builders
MON-A10 – Queer Urbanism and Design: Past, Present, Future
Water Conservation PPN Meeting
Sunday, November 17, 11:30 am – 12:15 pm
PPN Live Meeting Room
Water Conservation—Education Sessions of Interest
FS-003 – The San Diego River: Birth and Rebirth of an Ecosystem (sold out!)
DD-001 – Boots on the Ground: Measuring Landscape Performance in the Field
FRI-A01 – The Landscape of Food: The Link Between Climate, Food, and Resilient Communities
FRI-B02 – Solving for Resilience: A Multi-Faceted Approach
FRI-B10 – Kennedy Greened: A Streetscape Planned, Designed, and Now Built!
SAT-C05 – The Mysterious and Misunderstood Future of Urban Waterways
SUN-B11 – The Role of Stormwater Management in Landscape Architecture
SUN-C11 – Social/Ecological Resilience of Green Infrastructure When Design and Engineering Are Integrated
Women in Landscape Architecture PPN Education Session
What We’re Getting Right: Working Toward Gender Parity in Landscape Architecture – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW, AICP, FL)
Saturday, November 16, 3:30 – 4:45 pm
Room 22
Women in Landscape Architecture—Education Sessions of Interest
FRI-A03 – The Business of Innovation: Three Case Studies in Unconventional Practice
FRI-B08 – Equity and Inclusion in Practice: How Do We Get There?
SAT-B07 – Allies, Advocates, and Stakeholders: Building Up Women in Landscape Architecture
SAT-C06 – What We’re Getting Right: Working Toward Gender Parity in Landscape Architecture
SUN-A01 – Jumping off the Deep End: Strength of Diversity in Building a Practice
SUN-C04 – Mid-career Check-in: Management, Leadership, and Maybe Even Motherhood
SUN-B04 – Culture, Identity, and Design
Continue the Conversation
Join speakers from select sessions—including two PPN education sessions—for a conversation before or after their presentations in the EXPO. See the conference website for the full Continue the Conversation schedule.
If you can’t make it to San Diego 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 PDH on demand.