During the ASLA 2025 Conference on Landscape Architecture, thousands came together to connect, share knowledge, gain inspiration, and bring value to their practice.
If you missed the conference, 55 education session recordings are available online so you can experience ASLA 2025’s transformative discussions led by experts and innovators on topics from firm and project management to linear landscapes, nontraditional careers, plant procurement, and much more. Visit the ASLA Online Learning library to gain insights into pressing challenges and emerging possibilities, charting the course for a more resilient world. (And if you feel inspired by all these amazing sessions, the call for presentations for ASLA 2026 opens in early January!)
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Listed below are the 2025 conference education sessions added to the ASLA Online Learning library. Besides the LARE Prep workshops, all conference recordings offer Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System™ (LA CES™)-approved professional development (LA CES PDH); three recordings are under review to offer SITES-specific continuing education hours to maintain the SITES Accredited Professional (SITES AP) credential (GBCI SITES-Specific CE).
ASLA 2025 General Session – Leading Beyond Limits: Power, Place, and the Future of Cities – 1.0 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
FREE for ASLA members!
From rebuilding post-Katrina New Orleans to guiding the largest infrastructure investment in a generation, Mitch Landrieu knows what it takes to lead through crisis and transformation. In this powerful keynote, Landrieu challenges landscape architects to step into a bigger, more public role—at the center of shaping more equitable and climate-ready communities.
20 Years Later: Spatial, Economic, and Civic Lessons Learned Since Katrina – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
In the 20 years since Hurricane Katrina, the City of New Orleans has embraced a paradigm shift in how to view water as an asset, make better public spaces, and support economic and civic reinvestment. This dialogue examines the designer’s role in this conversation in conjunction with larger public participation.
Academia + Practice = Knowledge: A Research Collaboration Primer – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)
Academics and practitioners must join forces for research collaborations that create new knowledge to address the pressing issues of our time. However, challenges can arise due to differing terminology, drivers, and approaches. Three panelists who work across boundaries share actionable advice for effective research partnerships across academia and practice.
ADA Construction Issues—Designed Right, Built Wrong! – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
Have you ever had an ADA violation at construction even though you know you designed it right? Our presentation goes beyond design to discuss why and how things go awry during construction. The slideshow will provide field examples from ADA consultants with over 1,000 ADA plan reviews and inspections completed.
An Underutilized Concrete Application: Shotcrete – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
Vertical concrete in the landscape can be achieved in many ways; shotcrete provides greater flexibility, a smaller carbon footprint, and a faster completed scope. Here you’ll learn the fundamentals of shotcrete, key components to specifying it, and how to advocate for it, and you’ll see its carbon savings with built work.
Beyond Last Century’s Tools: Innovation in Firm and Project Management – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)
Emerging professionals seek firms that prioritize transparency and opportunities for growth, while firms seek a creative, diverse body of employees that push the boundaries of design. We will explore innovative tools and strategies that foster collaboration, flexibility, and diversity and ensure long-term success.
Beyond Planting Plans: Seeing, Communicating, and Constructing with Plants – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)
Three multidisciplinary designers explore the representation of planting beyond the plan. Fueled by advancements in visualization, alternative planting design modes can positively impact the evolution of planted systems. Using case studies with diverse clients, scales, and sites, attendees will gain an understanding of innovative ways of communicating planting design.
Beyond the Sample Closet: Strategies for Smarter Materials Management – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)
Effective management of a materials library requires intention, organization, and a thorough understanding of user needs. In this session, discover how digital tools and research-backed strategies can be used to establish, streamline, and enhance your firm’s materials library and commitment to innovative and sustainable material practices.
Building Capacity with Frontline Communities: Resilience Hubs for All – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
Resilience hubs are community-serving facilities tailored to strengthen daily relationships between neighbors and capacity to recover after emergencies. Hubs can also catalyze city-wide resilience and sustainability. This panel will share lessons learned designing a wide variety of resilience hubs with community-based organizations in the U.S., including Puerto Rico.
Designing Biodiversity Through Landscape Interactions: Applied Science at Varied Scales – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
While biodiversity is a goal for many landscape architects, few projects use science to document the impacts of designed landscapes on ecosystems or species. Featuring case studies from various countries and regions, this session will present diverse approaches to understanding how landscape interactions influence the biodiversity of sites and communities, aligned with the SITES v2 framework.
Designing with Purpose: Three Unique Perspectives on Achieving Functional Beauty for Residences – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
Delve into the residential design process from three distinct perspectives. Each designer’s bespoke solution focuses on functionality and aesthetic harmony, but their approaches to achieving the final result vary. By listening to each process, you can identify which aspects resonate with you and might be applicable to your own projects.
Dismantling Disaster: Working with Communities Before the Storm – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
Disasters aren’t “natural”—they’re shaped by human patterns of settlement, policy, and economics. Too often, designers begin thinking about disasters only after they strike. This session explores innovative strategies to engage communities before disasters. Learn how designers, federal agencies, and community leaders share capacities—knowledge, resources, and skills—to help communities prevent disasters.
Embracing Change: Transitioning from an Established Firm to Launch a Small Practice – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)
Navigating the challenges of starting your own small practice can seem daunting and insurmountable. Three designers, who all started their careers at recognized, established design firms, share practical insight into how they successfully launched their own studios, each with a distinct focus and identity.
Emergent AI in Professional Practice – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)
This session will present findings from ongoing research and testing of AI tools within the field of landscape architecture. It will explore the impact of firm-level AI policies, implementation roadmaps, chatbots, generative tools, and specific applied methods for design, production, construction, management, and operations.
Equity-Washing? Let’s Have a Real Conversation About Equity in the Profession – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
How do we move beyond DEI rhetoric that proclaims a commitment to creating diverse, equitable, and inclusive organizations, projects, and society? The word “equity” has become an integral part of our profession, but what does it truly mean, and how can we ensure it’s more than a buzzword?
Feral: Making Wild Landscapes – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
Three small, agile landscape architecture practices—representing the United States, France, and the Republic of Georgia—discuss working with wild, scruffy processes that result in unconventional landscapes and immersive spaces. Feral design focuses attention away from forms and shapes and toward gradients, atmospheres, and unexpected encounters.
Fighting for Our Future: The Case for Landscape-Led Infrastructure – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
What is landscape architecture’s best move for survival, and what is its role in the public domain? We ask important questions, engage the audience in meaningful discourse, and share major landscape-led infrastructure projects and research that can define our preparedness and future agency. We call the profession to action in this pivotal moment.
Fostering (not Fighting) Change: Innovative Approaches to Preservation Practice – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
Preservation practice must evolve in the face of cultural and ecological change. When significance is grounded in the narratives people hold and the ways in which stewards care for places rather than primarily in their material condition, change and preservation are possible, often uplifting the voices of long-underrepresented communities.
From Lab to Landscape: Opportunities for Scaling Biochar in Landscape Practice – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
This session connects academic design research, USDA-funded practice-based research, and municipal production experience to demonstrate how wood waste can be transformed into biochar—a high-value, carbon-sequestering product for urban forest and green infrastructure applications. This circular economy solution transforms waste management challenges into lasting climate mitigation opportunities, aligned with SITES v2 principles and credits.
Future Trees: Strategies for Designing and Managing Canopies for Institutional Landscapes – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
Institutional landscapes face historic canopy decline from climate change, storms, neglect, and weak regeneration. Without decisive action, these canopies may disappear within decades. This session ignites new thinking around revitalizing institutional landscapes through strategic, long-term canopy planning. Experts share practical, action-driven strategies to prepare trees for the next 50 years.
Go the Distance: Envisioning, Implementing, and Curating Great Linear Landscapes – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
By bike, on foot, and with paddles, Americans are increasingly discovering the adventure of linear landscapes. Yet transforming corridors that span diverse regions, ecologies, and jurisdictional boundaries poses unique challenges. Join public- and private-sector landscape architects for lively discussion about visioning, implementation, and stewardship of three diverse linear corridors.
Heat, Flood, Fire, Drought: Integrated Regional Landscape Resilience Strategy for Los Angeles – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
Los Angeles faces increasing climate risks—flood, drought, fire, and urban heat. This panel explores landscape-based integration of data, design, and technology to strengthen resilience. We will articulate an interdisciplinary collaboration, grounded in a watershed-based adaptation lens, that can create a more resilient and equitable future and inform planning and design.
Innovative Community Engagement: Digital and Map-Based Techniques – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
Whether it’s public comments or community workshops, community engagement is your project’s ultimate test. To help you pass with flying colors, three community engagement experts from research, tech, and landscape practice share their insights. We’ll focus on how digital, map-based methods integrate into the design process, supporting lovable, community-driven places.
Inside the LA Studio—Dana Brown & Associates – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)
Dana Brown & Associates creates beautiful and functional landscapes that respond to the ecology of the land and reflect the cultural heritage of the community. DBA integrates design and science with the goal of ensuring that the landscape provides multiple benefits. Meaningful community engagement is at the heart of our work.
Inside the LA Studio—Phyto Studio – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)
Phyto Studio is a leading landscape architecture firm specializing in resilient, high-visibility planting design. Founded in 2017 to bridge landscape architecture, horticulture, and ecology, the four-person studio pioneers ecological horticulture as a technology to restore urban ecological abundance through practical, adaptive plant systems tailored to contemporary environmental stresses.
Inside the LA Studio—Spackman Mossop Michaels – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)
Spackman Mossop Michaels is a landscape architecture practice with studios in New Orleans and Sydney. We design landscape strategies that respond deeply to context—ecological, cultural, and economic—integrating people and the environment. Our firm is dedicated to exploring new ways of helping communities adapt to climate change.
Interviewing the Interviewer: How Students and Employers Evaluate Each Other – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)
As the demographics and trends for landscape architects and the practice evolve, so do the values and the expectations that emerging professionals and employers have of each other. This session facilitates discussion between seasoned and emerging professionals to identify and offer practical solutions while adapting to the changing field.
Landscape Architects in the Expanded Field: Lessons from Working with Infrastructure – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
As local, state, and federal agencies focus funding on large-scale infrastructure projects, landscape architects must adapt their approach to remain relevant and reclaim the public realm. This session will focus on creative methodologies that rethink infrastructure to position placemaking and public space design at the forefront of transformative projects.
Landscape Architecture 2040: The New ASLA Climate and Biodiversity Action Plan – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
The new plan is a major update to the ASLA Climate Action Plan, which was released in 2022. It offers new climate and biodiversity goals and detailed actions for landscape architects and ASLA for 2026-2030. The scope of the new plan has been expanded—the climate and biodiversity crises are treated as equal priorities, and the focus is on actions that tackle both crises in an equitable way.
Lessons Learned: Cultural Landscapes that Honor African American Heritage and Legacy – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
Discover how cultural landscapes can be powerful vehicles for truth-telling, reconciliation, and community empowerment through an exploration of three projects that honor African American heritage. Learn practical strategies for developing inclusive partnerships, preserving community narratives, and creating sustainable cultural spaces. The session will provide concrete tools that ensure lasting impact.
Listening to the Land: Integrating Indigenous Perspectives for Restoration and Healing – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
What is it to be redbird, water, a cottonwood? Learn how participatory park design fosters healing through Indigenous, local, and historic perspectives. By integrating cultural narratives, promoting reciprocity, and strengthening partnerships, we restore ecosystems and gain understanding of our own identities through the experiences of other beings.
Living in a Reclaimed Material World: Benefits, Friction, and Landscape Project Precedents – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
Using reclaimed and recyclable materials can be appealing but presents barriers favoring the status quo, often leaving potential benefits achievable. Landscape architects have the power to have to align with SITES v2 principles and employ materiality in ways that decrease carbon footprints, minimize waste, promote collaborative community building, generate local economies, deepen place-based connections, and inspire future generations.
Living Landscapes: Managing Design Legacies Through Time and Change – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
All spaces, whether designed for landscape performance or for human experience, require continued care after installation, and that care is informed by the comprehensive process of landscape architecture. In this session, three practitioners share their insights into adaptive management and strategic intervention, which they have refined to achieve long-term design goals.
Magical Mistakes: Embracing Unexpected Moments of Joy in the Urban Landscape – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)
Sometimes the best-laid plans and the most carefully articulated details go awry! Join three women leaders in practices at the forefront of urban park and playscape design in a vulnerable and productive conversation about embracing the learning that comes from seeing playful unexpected uses of the built environment.
Mastering Plant Procurement: Bridging Gaps from Design to Delivery – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
Tired of watching your inspired designs unravel from plant shortages and dead-end nursery stock? This session delivers expert tactics for securing available, healthy plants on time. Gain field-tested methods to align design with supply, emphasizing genetic diversity, custom growing, and collaboration—ensuring your projects thrive from concept to final installation.
Mayoral Innovation: Rethinking Landscape Architecture in Local Government – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
Mayoral interest in landscape architecture is surging. As mayors increasingly prioritize landscape-based solutions for urban challenges, our profession must rise to the occasion. How are we equipping landscape architects to navigate the complexities of local government and effectively integrate systems thinking into mayoral agendas?
Niche to Newsworthy: Amplifying Landscape Architecture’s Reach – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)
This practice-oriented session presents strategies for landscape architects to compellingly communicate their work. In a discussion about the changing media landscape, public relations, communications, and marketing, the panelists will address ways to expand landscape architecture visibility. Participants can expect to learn actionable approaches to connecting their work with target audiences.
Not Your Garden-Variety Landscape Architects: Leading Nontraditional Careers – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)
Don’t see yourself in a landscape architecture firm? Neither did we. Hear how three landscape architects followed their own path, are working outside the boundaries of the private sector, and are making a difference in their communities and for the profession.
Planning, Measurement, and Implementation: Climate Action in a Historic Urban Park – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
A century before the term existed, Central Park already served as a critical piece of green infrastructure. With accelerating climate change and persistent environmental inequities, its role has only become more essential. Park stewards are implementing a strategy to benefit adjacent neighborhoods and contribute to a larger climate action dialogue.
Revealing Place: Context, Cultural History, and Ecological Memory in Landscape Architecture – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
This presentation challenges notions that land is empty or fallow. Three landscape architects will present strategies and studies emphasizing the importance of expressing a site’s historical, cultural, and ecological context and the benefits derived from this approach. Contemporary landscape challenges will also be addressed in this “place-revealing” design approach.
Rooted in Treme: Healing, History, and Hope Under the I-10 – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
One of the most controversial problems in New Orleans is the future of the I-10 bridge. Exploring the future of the life under the bridge is just as critical. The panel will explore how historical, economic, and cultural influences work together to claim and control public land and to navigate governmental constraints.
Scaling Beyond Boundaries: Strategies for Growing, Sustaining a Small Landscape Architecture Firm – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)
Running a successful small landscape architecture firm requires a balance of strategic growth, operational efficiency, and design excellence. Success lies in adaptability, leadership, and smart business strategies. This session explores actionable insights and real-world experiences from leaders who have navigated growth, embraced innovation, and positioned their businesses for long-term success.
Speak Up & Sound Smart: Effective Communication Strategies for Landscape Architects – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)
How much is poor communication costing you? Brilliant ideas mean nothing if they aren’t heard. Many landscape architects hesitate to speak up, losing opportunities. This session provides strategies to manage nerves and communicate confidently. This isn’t theory—it’s hands-on coaching to help you Keep Cool, Speak Up, and Sound Smart.
Staying in the Loop: Balancing Automation and Identity in the AI-LA Era – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)
As artificial intelligence reshapes creative fields, landscape architects face a shifting identity. Once defined by intuition, vision, and expertise, many now engage with AI, reimagining authorship and creativity. This session explores AI’s impact and its expanding roles, as well as strategies for adapting to evolving perceptions at the intersection of technology and design.
Steadying Winds of Change in Urban Parks: Leadership Lessons from Volatile Times – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
While the myriad of benefits provided by urban parks is more known today, ever-changing constraints and challenges persist: constrained resources, climate change, political winds, and social upheaval, to name a few. This panel brings three leaders from to share hard lessons learned and new practices to help manage change.
Tapping into Ecological Memory: A Key to Resilient Design – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
Through the lens of ecological memory, emerging approaches blend foundational restoration principles with innovations in landscape form, posing the question: What can we learn from plant competition dynamics, wildlife habitat forms, migration patterns, soil processes, and adaptation processes to respond to today’s biodiversity crisis and create and maintain resilient landscapes? Aligned with SITES v2 credits, this session encourages participants to embrace site-specific responses that promote long-term ecological function and resilience.
The Found-Hers: Professional Perspectives at Three Stages of Practice – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)
Ever dreamed of starting your own firm? It’s both exciting and daunting at the outset. Beyond that, how do you navigate the messy middle? When do you consider transition? Through case studies and video interviews, three women owners relate the challenges and opportunities they’ve experienced over a life in practice.
The Home Landscape Lab: Unlocking Small Business Opportunities for a Biodiverse Future – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
Using their home landscapes as test plots, three sole practitioners showcase how everyday urban and suburban lots can drive biodiversity and environmental change. Discover lessons learned through hands-on experimentation and how to amplify them into business opportunities, scaling impact through advocacy and partnerships.
To DBE or Not to DBE: Leveraging Diversity as a Strategic Advantage – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)
Diversity is a common buzzword, but why does it really matter? Three professionals from minority and/or women-led firms discuss the benefits and pitfalls of the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) program, what it means to practice as a DBE, and how each is navigating threats to DEI programs.
Uncharted Paths: Women of Color Are Redefining Landscape Architecture Through Micro Practices – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)
This session brings together three women of color who have forged unconventional career paths through micro practices, redefining success in landscape architecture. Panelists will share how entrepreneurship, values-driven work, and nontraditional business models have enabled them to thrive, offering insights and strategies for building sustainable, impactful careers beyond traditional firms.
Understanding the Financial Benefits of Firm Ownership (and How to Get There) – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)
Financial stability is challenging for many landscape architects. Firm ownership can bring financial success, yet emerging leaders—especially women and minorities—often encounter unclear paths to advancement. Attendees will leave this session understanding pathways to ownership and how to support the next generation of women and minority leaders.
Unhoused, Unseen: The (In)visibility of Homelessness in “Public” Space – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
Codified spatial regulations criminalize one’s ability to live while unhoused. This research explores how social exclusion moves beyond the design of the physical realm to the design of data that determines policy. By exposing these invisible frameworks, we challenge who is recognized, receives support, and remains unseen in our landscapes.
When Specs Meet Reality: Partnering with Nursery Growers for Successful Planting Design – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
Have you ever wondered why your plant selections are difficult to source? Curious about what decisions, work, and landscapes go into a plant before it arrives on the job site? This session explores potential for partnerships with the plant nursery trade and identifies alternative approaches to bridge design and horticulture.
Where Do You Draw the Line? – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
Is it ever ethical to build a ski resort in the desert? What if the project is net zero but the client has a terrible human rights record? Isn’t it about time we had a conversation about this? Where do you draw the line?
Witches and Wizards of the Landscape – 1.25 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)
Landscape architecture is witchcraft. We conjure the landscape through visioning in concept design, transform reality with symbology through construction documents, and cast spells through design narratives. Sensing the spirit of the place, stepping into our intuition, and feeding our creativity are essential ingredients to the cauldron of the design process.
A note for those who attended ASLA 2025 in New Orleans: full conference registrants received an email granting FREE access to conference recordings through December 31, 2025. If you attended the conference in person, you are not eligible to earn PDH for sessions you’ve already received credit for. Check your conference transcript on the CEU Manager website for details.
About ASLA Online Learning
ASLA Online Learning offers both live virtual presentations throughout the year and most of the 200 recordings available offer Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System™ (LA CES™)-approved professional development hours (PDH).
PDH may be earned after viewing a presentation by completing and passing a short quiz. Be sure to check state mandatory continuing education requirements to ensure that LA CES courses are compatible with your state’s continuing education requirements.
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