#ASLA2019 is here! We're thrilled to be in San Diego for this year's Conference on Landscape Architecture. We have much to celebrate, from the release of Fresh Water, co-authored by Associate Jessica Henson, to our Partner Hallie Boyce's elevation to the esteemed Council of Fellows. Check out our guide below—we look forward to seeing you there!
EDUCATION SESSIONS
Puerto Rico: Holding on to the Future/Aferrado al Futuro
Saturday 11/16, 11:00am - 12:15pm
Richard Roark, ASLA, LEED AP/SITES AP, Partner
The future is under consideration in Puerto Rico. An unprecedented level of federal recovery funds have been allocated to the island, but the outcomes will be told through the priorities and plans that follow. This will be an inflection point that will have profound impacts on land, water, infrastructure, and the diverse communities who hold the future of the island.
Fact Check: Assessing Landscape Performance in Research and Practice
Sunday 11/17, 9:00am - 10:00am
Skip Graffam, FASLA, Partner
Amid today’s science denial and “alternative facts,” it is imperative for landscape architects to advocate and prove design impacts with evidence. This panel shares experience in evaluating design and assessing landscape performance through collaborative research in practice, focusing on post-occupancy evaluation of environmental, social, and economic performance.
The ReImagined River: Fifty-One Miles of Connected Open Space
Monday 11/18, 8:00am - 9:30am
Jessica Henson, ASLA, Associate
One million people live within a mile of the Los Angeles River, which currently serves a singular purpose of flood control. Los Angeles County is reimagining the river as multibenefit and updating its 1996 master plan. This session explores the project, which is integrating robust community engagement, politics, hydrology, and design.
Integrating Ecology and Technology to Maximize Beneficial Impacts
Monday 11/18, 8:30am - 10:00am
Judy Venonsky, ASLA, Associate / Living Systems Specialist
Plant choices have far-reaching environmental and social impacts, and innovative solutions are found in the synapses between ecology and digital technology. The potential exists for modeling natural systems with parametric design by creating a common language between these two disciplines, unleashing the power of both for all landscape architects.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Landscape Architecture Foundation Annual Benefit
Friday 11/15, 7:00pm - 10:30pm
Join the Landscape Architecture Foundation at the Prado at Balboa Park for its 34th Annual Benefit! Join top designers and leaders from practice, academia, and industry, including OLIN CEO and Partner Lucinda Sanders, FASLA, Co-Founder and Facilitator for LAF's Fellowship for Leadership and Innovation, for this festive evening with local food and amazing company. The benefit will celebrate the 2019 LAF Olmsted Scholars and showcase the recipients of the $25,000 LAF Fellowship for Innovation and Leadership and their transformative projects.
Fresh Water Author Meet-and-Greet at the EXPO
Saturday 11/16, 9:30am - 11:00am
OLIN Associate Jessica Henson, ASLA, and Mary Pat McGuire, ASLA, Principal Designer at The Water Lab and Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at UIUC, will be signing copies of their new book Fresh Water. The geographical and hydrosocial context of the major inland North American watersheds—the Mississippi, the Great Lakes Basin-St. Lawrence and the Nelson—remains an under-explored field for design research. Fresh Water assembles scholarly papers from designers that reframe complex issues of industrial agriculture, energy production, urban sewersheds, water law, transportation tributaries, and cross-watershed diversions, to propose new inland water futures.
ASLA Council of Fellows Investiture Dinner
Sunday 11/17, 7:00pm
Join friends and colleagues for an elegant evening to honor the newest members of the ASLA Council of Fellows, including OLIN Partner Hallie Boyce. Fellowship is among the highest honors the ASLA bestows on members and recognizes the contributions of these individuals to their profession and society at large based on their works, leadership and management, knowledge, and service.