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Agriculture / Community Gardens
Friday, Nov 15
1:30 pm

FRI-A01 - The Landscape of Food: The Link Between Climate, Food, and Resilient Communities
Location: 20A
April Philips, FASLA – April Philips Design Works; Ann Cutner Firestone, ASLA, LEED AP – Solutions for Urban Agriculture; Katie Ettman – SPUR
Monday, Nov 18
10:30 am

MON-B01 - Ecological Foodways: Landscape Opportunities at the Intersection of Food, Ecology, and Culture
Location: 28ABC
Amy Whitesides, ASLA – Stoss Landscape Urbanism; Matthew K. Lau, n/a – Harvard Forest / Harvard University; Chris Grosset – NVision Insight Group Inc.
Campus Planning & Design
Friday, Nov 15
7:30 am

FS-004 - Biotech: The Art and Science of Immersive Campus Environments
Location: Lobby Outside Exhibit Hall F
JT Barr, ASLA – Schmidt Design Group, Inc.; Kyle Fiddelke, ASLA – OJB Landscape Architecture; Rocio Gertler, ASLA, LEED AP – LdG Landscape Architects; Jeffery Laudenslager – Laudenslager Kinetic Sculpture
Friday, Nov 15
7:45 am

FS-006 - Living Laboratories: Exploring San Diego’s Nature-Based Outdoor Learning Environments.
Location: Lobby Outside Exhibit Hall F
Ilisa Goldman, ASLA – City of San Diego, Parks and Recreation; Andrew Spurlock, FASLA – Spurlock Landscape Architects; Shamli Tarbell – City of San Diego; Susan Holley – Child Development Associates, Inc.; JoAnna Proctor – Groundwork San Diego/Chollas Creek
Friday, Nov 15
9:00 am

FS-010 - Inside Out: Creative Office Campus Conversions in North County San Diego
Location: Lobby Outside Exhibit Hall F
Jason Shinoda, ASLA – Rios Clementi Hale Studios; Naseema Asif, Affiliate ASLA – Rios Clementi Hale Studios
Friday, Nov 15
12:30 pm

FS-012 - The Campus Defined: Design, Resiliency, and the Art of Landscape Architecture
Location: Lobby Outside Exhibit Hall F
Jon S. Wreschinsky, ASLA – San Diego Unified School District; Todd Pitman, ASLA – University of California, San Diego; John R. Gibbs, ASLA – WRT; YuJu Liu, ASLA – Spurlock Landscape Architects
Friday, Nov 15
1:30 pm

FRI-A05 - Interpreting Native American Cultural Heritage Through Design
Location: 30DE
Dennis Meyer, ASLA, LEED AP – MIG; Paul Fragua – Nativesun; Jose de Jesus Leal, ASLA – MIG
Friday, Nov 15
3:30 pm

FRI-B01 - A Constellation of Assets: Cultural Institutions, Landscapes of Experience, and Expanded Constituency
Location: 22
David A. Rubin, FASLA – DAVID RUBIN Land Collective; Ron Halverson – Halverson Group; Kathryn M. Haigh – Newfields
Sunday, Nov 17
3:30 pm

SUN-C03 - The Progressive Role of Botanical Gardens: From Cultural Passion to Climate Change
Location: 30ABC
Katherine Harvey, ASLA, LEED AP – RCH Studios; Laura Solano, ASLA – Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc.; Ray Giang – MR-ProFun
Climate Resiliency
Friday, Nov 15
1:30 pm

FRI-A02 - Regenerative Ecological Urbanism: A Resilient Approach to Climate Change Mitigation in Desert Region.
Location: 31ABC
Kartika Rachmawati, ASLA, LEED AP – BrightView Design Group; Michael Krause – Krause Architecture; Clayton Bartczak, LEED AP – Ambient Energy
Friday, Nov 15
3:30 pm

FRI-B02 - Solving for Resilience: A Multi-Faceted Approach
Location: 30DE
Bradford McKee – Landscape Architecture Magazine; Raghuveer Vinukollu, n/a – Raghuveer Consulting; Guy Nordenson, PE – Guy Nordenson and Associates, NY; Prentiss Darden, ASLA – Sherwood Design Engineers
Saturday, Nov 16
8:00 am

GS-001 - From Climate Change to Climate Action: Building a Clean, Healthy, Sustainable Future
Location: Exhibit Hall H
Gina McCarthy – Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Saturday, Nov 16
11:00 am

SAT-A03 - I Can See Clearly Now – Landscape Design for Air Quality
Location: 20A
Kurt Culbertson, FASLA, FAICP – Design Workshop; Melissa Lunden – ACLIMA INC; Esther M. Margulies, ASLA – USC School of Architecture
Saturday, Nov 16
11:00 am

SAT-A02 - Puerto Rico: Holding on to the Future/Aferrado al Futuro
Location: 30DE
Richard Roark, ASLA, LEED AP – OLIN; Edmundo R. Colón-Izquierdo, ASLA – ECo; Eric Rothstein – eDesign Dynamics
Saturday, Nov 16
2:00 pm

SAT-B01 - Culture of Comfort: Strategies to Survive and Thrive in Extreme Heat
Location: 28ABC
Nate Cormier, ASLA, LEED AP – Rios Clementi Hale Studios; Jonathan Ogren – Siglo Group; Ashley Heeren, AIA, LEED AP – Lake|Flato Architects
Saturday, Nov 16
3:30 pm

SAT-C03 - Greenways to Gene-Ways: A Call To Action
Location: 28DE
Vaughn B. Rinner, FASLA, SITES AP – Vaughn Rinner Landscape Architect; Charles A. Flink, II, FASLA – Greenways Incorporated; Keith Bowers, FASLA – Biohabitats
Sunday, Nov 17
9:00 am

SUN-A02 - In the Mud: Designing With Sediment for Sea-level Rise
Location: 28ABC
Gena Wirth, ASLA – SCAPE Landscape Architecture DPC; Brett Milligan, ASLA – University of California, Davis; Justine Holzman, ASLA – University of Toronto; Rob Holmes, ASLA – Auburn University
Sunday, Nov 17
2:00 pm

SUN-B02 - Beyond Barriers: Engineering, Ecology, and Design at the Water’s Edge
Location: 20A
Isaac Raymond Hametz, ASLA – Mahan Rykiel Associates; Catherine Seavitt Nordenson, ASLA, AIA – City College of New York; Rob Holmes, ASLA – Auburn University
Sunday, Nov 17
2:00 pm

SUN-B01 - Urban Forest Futures: Climate Change, Social Equity, and the Contemporary City
Location: 29AB
Eric Kramer, ASLA – Reed Hilderbrand; Deanna Moran, AICP – Conservation Law Foundation; Kim A. Chapman – Applied Ecological Services
Sunday, Nov 17
3:30 pm

SUN-C02 - Hot Topic: Integrating Wildfire Resilience into Planning and Design
Location: 29AB
Molly Mowery, AICP – Wildfire Planning International; Carly Klein, ASLA, AICP, LEED Green Associate – Design Workshop; Mikey Goralnik, AICP, LEED Green Associate – Mariposa County Planning Department
Monday, Nov 18
8:30 am

MON-A01 - Modeling and Experimental Strategies to Inform Coastal Adaptation, Restoration, and Living Shorelines
Location: 28DE
James O'Donnell – Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut; Brian Blanton – Renaissance Computing Institute/UNC-Chapel Hill; Alexander J. Felson, ASLA – University of Connecticut; Gavin Paul Smith, AICP – North Carolina State University, Department of Landscape Architecture
Monday, Nov 18
2:45 pm

GS-002 - No Time to Waste: Landscape Architecture and the Global Challenge of Climate Change
Location: Exhibit Hall H
Kongjian Yu, FASLA – Turenscape & College of Architecture and Landscape, Peking University; Kotchakorn Voraakhom, ASLA – Landprocess; Hitesh S. Mehta, FASLA – HM Design; Andrew Revkin – Columbia University
Design-Build
Monday, Nov 18
8:30 am

MON-A02 - Growing Media: Digital Fabrication and Biological Materials
Location: 22
Pinar Yoldas – University of California, San Diego; Steven Beites, n/a – Studio Kimiis / Laurentian University; Cannon Ivers, ASLA – LDA Design/Bartlett School of Architecture; Christopher Reznich, Associate ASLA – Stoss Landscape Urbanism
Monday, Nov 18
10:30 am

MON-B02 - Design by Hand, Build by Hand
Location: 20A
Nathan Schleicher – Earthscape; Gordon Macdonald – Heritageworks Ltd.; Andrea Mantin, International ASLA – Brook McIlroy Inc.
Development Trends
Saturday, Nov 16
2:00 pm

SAT-B02 - Do You Speak Developer? Translating and Communicating the Value of Landscape Architecture
Location: 29AB
Connie J. Chung, AICP – HR&A Advisors, Inc.; Steven Spears, FASLA – GroundWork Development Company; Patrick Phillips – Phillips Development Strategies
Saturday, Nov 16
3:30 pm

SAT-C04 - Creating Community: How Providing Missing Middle Housing Can Make Better Neighborhoods
Location: 28ABC
Luis F. Gonzalez, ASLA, AICP – Lennar; Michael Rodriguez, AICP – CBRE; Melissa Williams – Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission
Saturday, Nov 16
3:30 pm

SAT-C07 - Making Space for Homelessness: Innovative Approaches to Housing, Spaces, and Services
Location: 20D
Christopher Ward – City of San Diego; Brandon Davis – Downtown Streets Team; Lena Miller
Ecological Restoration / Remediation / Brownfields
Friday, Nov 15
7:15 am

FS-002 - Raising Resiliency: From Lagoon Restoration to Environmental Stewardship at San Elijo Lagoon
Location: Lobby Outside Exhibit Hall F
Richard J. Risner, ASLA – Grounded Landscape Architecture; Jonathan Austin, ASLA – AECOM; Dick Rol – AECOM; Doug Gibson – Nature Collective
Saturday, Nov 16
3:30 pm

SAT-C05 - The Mysterious and Misunderstood Future of Urban Waterways
Location: 20A
Gerdo Aquino, FASLA – SWA; Christopher W. Hawthorne – City of Los Angeles; Thomas Aujero Small – Culver City Council; Claire J. Bowin, Student ASLA – Alta Planning + Design
Monday, Nov 18
10:30 am

MON-B04 - Heavy Lifting: How Conservation Lands Can Embed Climate Resiliency at the Regional Scale
Location: 30DE
Eric Thomas, ASLA – Andropogon Associates; Andrew Fox, ASLA – North Carolina State University Department of Landscape Architecture; Sharon Richardson – Resilient Lands Matter
Green Roofs / Green Walls
Monday, Nov 18
10:30 am

MON-B03 - Green Roofs in California and Beyond: Marrying Economics, Performance, and Ecology
Location: 28DE
Rohan Lilauwala – Green Roofs for Healthy Cities; Molly Meyer – Omni Ecosystems; Paul Kephart, ASLA – Rana Creek Habitat Restoration
Historic Preservation/Restoration
Friday, Nov 15
1:30 pm

FRI-A04 - Preserve, Restore, Redesign: The Ethical and Practical Quandaries of Historic Landscape Stewardship
Location: 20D
Mark Hough, FASLA – Duke University; Thaisa Way, FASLA – University of Washington; Thomas Woltz, FASLA – Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects
Friday, Nov 15
3:30 pm

FRI-B03 - Extending the Invitation: Revitalizing Public Landscapes for the 21st Century
Location: 20A
Robin Ganser, ASLA – Coen+Partners; Claire Agre, ASLA – Unknown Studio; Mike Albert, ASLA – Design Workshop
Saturday, Nov 16
2:00 pm

SAT-B03 - Historic Preservation and Contemporary Use: Challenges in Balboa Park San Diego
Location: 30ABC
Mark W. Johnson, FASLA – Civitas; Vicki Estrada, FASLA – Estrada Land Planning; Patrick W. Caughey, FASLA, LEED Green Associate – Wimmer Yamada and Caughey
Saturday, Nov 16
3:30 pm

SAT-C10 - Honoring Native American Heritage Through Collaborative Design
Location: 31ABC
David Garce, ASLA, LEED AP – GSBS Architects; Darren Parry – Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation; Marianne St. John, AIA
Monday, Nov 18
8:30 am

MON-A03 - Leading Change: Emerging Opportunities and Challenges for the Practice of Historic Preservation
Location: 31ABC
Jonathan Ceci, ASLA – Jonathan Ceci Landscape Architects; Tina Bishop, ASLA – Mundus Bishop; Brenda Williams, ASLA – Quinn Evans/Architects
Monday, Nov 18
10:30 am

MON-B05 - Remember + Imagine: Embedding a Community’s Historic and Cultural Legacy Through Design
Location: 31ABC
Jennifer Ng, ASLA – Sasaki; Haley Waterson, ASLA – Plural; Daniel Affleck, ASLA – SWA Group
International Design
Friday, Nov 15
7:30 am

FS-005 - Tijuana: The Past, Present, and Future of Design in a Border City
Location: Lobby Outside Exhibit Hall F
Jonathan Avila, ASLA – City of San Diego; Tomas Herrera-Mishler, ASLA – Balboa Park Conservancy; Derrick Chinn – Turista Libre; Luis A. Lutteroth – CDT.; Jorge Gracia – GraciaStudio / Escuela Libre de Arquitectura; Iñaki Echeverría – Iñaki Echeverria Estudio
Saturday, Nov 16
11:00 am

SAT-A04 - Finding Design: Case Studies in the Creative Process
Location: 20D
Susan Cohen, FASLA – Susan Cohen Landscape Architect; Kathryn Gustafson, FASLA – GGN; Walter Hood, ASLA – Hood Design Studio
Saturday, Nov 16
11:00 am

SAT-A05 - Promoting International Landscape Practice Through the Shanghai Landscape Forum
Location: 22
Lee Parks, International ASLA – AECOM; Dou Zhang, ASLA, LEED AP, SITES AP – Sasaki; Shuyi Chang, ASLA, LEED Green Associate – SWA
Monday, Nov 18
8:30 am

MON-A04 - Traversing the Line: On Spatial Borders and Social Equity
Location: 30DE
Maria Bellalta, ASLA – Boston Architectural College; Niall G. Kirkwood – Harvard University, Graduate School of Design; Lina Escobar – Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Escuela de Diseño y Arquitectura; Francisco j. Luna – buro verde arquitectura sc
Marketing / Business Development
Friday, Nov 15
8:30 am

FS-009 - Snap to It San Diego
Location: 29AB
Dillon Diers, ASLA – OJB Landscape Architecture; Marion Brenner, Affil. ASLA – Marion Brenner Photography; Chris McGee – American Society of Landscape Architects; Zach Sawchuk – OJB Landscape Architecture
Sunday, Nov 17
2:00 pm

SUN-B03 - Designing High-Performing (Digital) Landscapes: Social Media's Place in Landscape Architecture
Location: 28DE
Catherine Saunders, Affil. ASLA – TBG Partners; Emma Tardella – NAK Design Strategies; Matt Alcide, Affil. ASLA – Land8: Landscape Architects Network
Sunday, Nov 17
3:30 pm

SUN-C04 - Mid-career Check-in: Management, Leadership, and Maybe Even Motherhood
Location: 30DE
Keiko Tsuruta Cramer, ASLA – WRT; Jennifer Orr, ASLA – Studio Balcones; Sierra Bainbridge, ASLA – MASS Design Group; Justine Heilner, ASLA – Prospect Park Alliance
Not Listed (Other)
Friday, Nov 15
8:00 am

WS-001 - Workshop: The LARE Experience—What to Expect and How to Prepare
Location: 25BC
Emily M. O'Mahoney, FASLA, LEED AP – 2GHO; Stephen Feccia, ASLA – Kimley-Horn and Associates; Bentley Ruggles, ASLA – Dewberry; Madeline Steigerwald, ASLA – Dix.Hite + Partners; Darneka Waters, ASLA – Landworks Design Group, PA
Friday, Nov 15
8:30 am

WS-003 - LAAB Accreditation Workshop
Location: 24A
Kristopher Pritchard – American Society of Landscape Architects; Rodney Swink, FASLA – PlaceEconomics; Stephanie Rolley, FASLA, AICP – Kansas State University
Friday, Nov 15
8:30 am

DD-004 - Mindful Movement and the Creative Process: Applying Feldenkrais Techniques for Landscape Architects
Location: 22
Anita Bueno, ASLA – Bueno Movement & Design; Tara McIntire – Marin County Parks
Friday, Nov 15
1:30 pm

FRI-A06 - Landscape With an Edge
Location: 28ABC
Jonathon Geels, ASLA – Indiana Chapter ASLA; Michael Todoran, ASLA – Rios Clementi Hale Studios / LArchitect Podcast; Lara Remitz, Assoc. ASLA – Wight & Company; Kene Okigbo, ASLA – RDG Planning & Design
Friday, Nov 15
3:30 pm

FRI-B05 - Divining Design: A Tarot Approach to Creative Placemaking
Location: 31ABC
Elizabeth Boults, ASLA – University of California, Davis; Chip Sullivan, Jr., ASLA – University of California, Berkeley
Friday, Nov 15
3:30 pm

FRI-B04 - Drawing Matters: Exploring the Value of Drawing in Landscape Architecture
Location: 29AB
Michael Batts, ASLA, LEED AP – STEWART; Kona A. Gray, FASLA – EDSA; David Malda, ASLA, LEED AP – GGN
Saturday, Nov 16
11:00 am

SAT-A07 - Design with Nature—Fifty Years Later
Location: 29AB
Frederick Steiner, FASLA, SITES AP – Stuart Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania; Anne Whiston Spirn, FASLA – Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Carter van Dyke, ASLA – Carter van Dyke Associates Tyler School of Art, Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture, Temple University; Baldev Lamba, ASLA – Lamba Associates Inc. /Temple University
Saturday, Nov 16
11:00 am

SAT-A01 - Inside the LA Studio with Andropogon
Location: 32AB
José Almiñana, FASLA, LEED AP, SITES AP – Andropogon; Thomas C. Amoroso, ASLA – Andropogon; Darren Damone, ASLA – Andropogon; Lauren Mandel, ASLA – Andropogon; Keith Bowers, FASLA – Biohabitats
Saturday, Nov 16
3:30 pm

SAT-C01 - Inside the LA Studio with BASE Landscape Architecture
Location: 29AB
Patricia Algara, ASLA – BASE Landscape Architecture; Andreas Stavropoulos, ASLA – BASE Landscape Architecture; Sutter Wehmeier, ASLA, LEED AP – BASE Landscape Architecture; Natalie Martell, ASLA – BASE Landscape Architecture; Maria Landoni, ASLA – PWP Landscape Architecture
Saturday, Nov 16
3:30 pm

SAT-C02 - Inside the LA Studio with Mahan Rykiel Associates
Location: 32AB
Jingpeng Gu, ASLA, LEEP AP – Mahan Rykiel Associates; Scott Rykiel, FASLA – Mahan Rykiel Associates; Isaac Raymond Hametz, ASLA – Mahan Rykiel Associates; Barbara Deutsch, FASLA – Landscape Architecture Foundation
Sunday, Nov 17
9:00 am

SUN-A03 - Decolonizing Design: Black Narratives in Landscape Architecture
Location: 31ABC
Breeze Outlaw, Associate ASLA – Sasaki; Ujijji Davis, ASLA – SmithGroup; Marc Miller, Student ASLA – The Pennsyvania State University
Sunday, Nov 17
9:00 am

SUN-A01 - Jumping off the Deep End: Strength of Diversity in Building a Practice
Location: 20A
Mikyoung Kim, FASLA – Mikyoung Kim Design; Michelle Delk, ASLA – Snøhetta; Walter Hood, ASLA – Hood Design Studio
Sunday, Nov 17
9:00 am

SUN-A04 - Place Based: How Regional Firms Are Leveraging Local Knowledge for Social Change
Location: 28DE
Isaac Raymond Hametz, ASLA – Mahan Rykiel Associates; Mia Lehrer, FASLA – Studio-MLA; Isaac Cohen, ASLA – Studio Outside; Alison Hirsch, ASLA – University of Southern California
Sunday, Nov 17
2:00 pm

SUN-B04 - Culture, Identity, and Design
Location: 32AB
Chris Reed – Stoss Landscape Urbanism; Sara Zewde, ASLA – Studio Zewde; Stephen Gray, AIA – Grayscale Collaborative/ Harvard Graduate School of Design
Sunday, Nov 17
3:30 pm

SUN-C01 - Inside the LA Studio with Design Workshop
Location: 32AB
Mike Albert, ASLA – Design Workshop; Robb Berg, ASLA – Design Workshop; Stephanie Grigsby, ASLA, AICP, LEED Green Associate – Design Workshop; Allyson Mendenhall, ASLA, LEED Green Associate – Design Workshop; Frederick Steiner, FASLA, SITES AP – Stuart Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania
Sunday, Nov 17
3:30 pm

SUN-C08 - The Landscape of Police Shootings: How Can the Landscape Support Healing and Justice?
Location: 28DE
Douglas Nelson, ASLA, LEED AP – RHAA Landscape Architects; Nate Hamilton – Coalition for Justice; Steve Rasmussen Cancian, ASLA – Shared Spaces/California Polytechnic University; Sequanna Taylor – Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors
Monday, Nov 18
10:30 am

MON-B06 - Picturing Landscape
Location: 20D
Chris Reed – Stoss Landscape Urbanism; Millicent Harvey – Millicent Harvey Photography; Alex S. MacLean – Landslides Aerial Photography; Michael Belleme – Mike Belleme Photography
Parks / Recreation / Play / Sports Facility Design
Friday, Nov 15
7:15 am

FS-001 - Balboa Park: Past, Present, and Future
Location: Lobby Outside Exhibit Hall F
Amy Hoffman, ASLA – KTUA Planning and Landscape Architecture; Jacqueline Higgins, ASLA – Balboa Park Conservancy; Keiji Uesugi, ASLA – TUA, Inc.; David Rice, FAIA – San Diego Zoo Global / San Diego Zoo Safari Park; Kim Duclo – City of San Diego, Balboa Park
Friday, Nov 15
8:00 am

FS-007 - San Diego's Waterfront and Urban Parks
Location: 28ABC
Glen Schmidt, FASLA – Schmidt Design Group, Inc.; Brad Lents, ASLA, SITES AP, AICP, LEED AP – Spurlock Landscape Architects; Lucy Contreras – Port of San Diego; Scott Jordan, ASLA – Civitas; Annie Phaosawasdi, ASLA – Hargreaves Associates
Friday, Nov 15
8:00 am

FS-008 - Weaving Green Infrastructure to Create a Tapestry of Urban Open Space
Location: 28DE
Kathleen Brand, ASLA – Civic San Diego; Scott Sandel, ASLA – City of San Diego Planning Department; Brad Richter – Civic San Diego; Andrew Field – City of San Diego Parks and Recreation Department; Daniel Kay, PE – Civic San Diego
Friday, Nov 15
1:30 pm

FRI-A07 - Urban Wild! Making the Case for Our Unclaimed Landscapes
Location: 28DE
John R. Gibbs, ASLA – WRT; Jill Desimini, ASLA – Harvard University; Susan Moffat – Love the Bulb
Friday, Nov 15
3:30 pm

FRI-B06 - Interagency and Community Collaboration: Great Parks Integrated with Infrastructure and Ecology
Location: 29CD
Gretchen Wilson, ASLA, LEED AP – Dig Studio; Cincere Eades – City and County of Denver Parks and Recreation
Saturday, Nov 16
2:00 pm

SAT-B04 - Cultural Diversity in Design: Uniting Communities Through Cultural Celebration
Location: 31ABC
Amy Mitchell, ASLA – MIG, INC.; Jose de Jesus Leal, ASLA – MIG; Mario Schjetnan, FASLA – Grupo de Diseno Urbano
Saturday, Nov 16
3:30 pm

SAT-C08 - Green Schoolyards: Local Urban Transformation to National Prototype
Location: 29CD
Adrian Benepe, Hon. ASLA – The Trust for Public Land; Danielle M. Denk, ASLA – The Trust for Public Land; Jennifer L. Nitzky, ASLA – StudioHIP
Sunday, Nov 17
2:00 pm

SUN-B06 - The Transformation of Inclusive Design: Evidence-based Research Supporting Holistic Playground Design
Location: 30ABC
Chad Kennedy, ASLA, LEED AP – O'Dell Engineering; Amy Wagenfeld, Affil. ASLA – Johnson & Wales University; Gregory Miller, FASLA – MRWM
Sunday, Nov 17
3:30 pm

SUN-C06 - Two Parks/Two Boroughs/One River: Hunter’s Point South Park and Domino Park
Location: 31ABC
Thomas Balsley, FASLA – SWA / Balsley; Lisa T. Switkin, ASLA – James Corner Field Operations; Adrian Benepe, Hon. ASLA – The Trust for Public Land
Monday, Nov 18
10:30 am

MON-B08 - Measuring What Matters: Metrics to Capture the Social Impacts of Public Spaces
Location: 29CD
Lynn Ross, AICP – Spirit for Change Consulting, LLC; Alexa Bush, ASLA – City of Detroit; Benjamin A. Bryant – Interface Studio, LLC
Monday, Nov 18
10:30 am

MON-B07 - Nature, Adventure and Destination: Departures from Status Quo in Public Play Environments
Location: 29AB
Rebecca Colbert, ASLA – MIG; Laurel Raines, ASLA – Dig Studio; Tom Leader, FASLA – TLS Landscape Architecture
Planning
Saturday, Nov 16
11:00 am

SAT-A06 - Parks Equity: Fostering Access to Great Public Parks for All
Location: 30ABC
Laura Gornowski Marett, ASLA, LEED AP – Sasaki; Charles McCabe – The Trust for Public Land; Chris Cook – City of Boston
Saturday, Nov 16
2:00 pm

SAT-B05 - Our Secret Superpower: Landscape Architects Shaping Policy to Shape the World
Location: 30DE
Karen M. Cesare, ASLA – Novak Environmental, Inc.; Stephanie V. Landregan, FASLA, LEED AP – California State Mining and Geology Board; Diane Jones Allen, ASLA – University of Texas, Arlington
Sunday, Nov 17
9:00 am

SUN-A05 - ADA to Universal Design: Creating Healthy Communities Through Equitable Design Approaches
Location: 29CD
Peter Caldwell, ASLA – Asakura Robinson; Luis Gerardo Guajardo, Jr., AICP – Asakura Robinson; Jesus Lardizabal – Altura Solutions
Monday, Nov 18
8:30 am

MON-A05 - The ReImagined River: Fifty-One Miles of Connected Open Space
Location: 32AB
Jessica M. Henson, ASLA – OLIN; William Mark Hanna, LEED AP, PE – Geosyntec Consultants
Plants/Soils
Friday, Nov 15
3:30 pm

FRI-B07 - Landscape Resiliency Through Integrated Planting Design and Management
Location: 20D
Travis Beck, ASLA – City of Santa Cruz; Larry Weaner, Affiliate ASLA – Larry Weaner Landscape Associates; Laura Hansplant, ASLA, LEED AP – Roofmeadow
Sunday, Nov 17
2:00 pm

SUN-B08 - Situation Normal: All Mocked Up
Location: 29CD
Adam Greenspan, ASLA – PWP Landscape Architecture; Thomas Rainer, ASLA – Phyto Studio; Herb Sweeney, IV, ASLA, LEED AP – Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc., Landscape Architects; Seth Rodewald-Bates, ASLA – PWP Landscape Architecture
Practice Management (Contracts / Insurance / Finance / Personnel)
Friday, Nov 15
1:30 pm

FRI-A03 - The Business of Innovation: Three Case Studies in Unconventional Practice
Location: 29AB
Nina Chase, ASLA – Merritt Chase; Falon Mihalic, ASLA – Falon Land Studio llc; Sara Zewde, ASLA – Studio Zewde
Friday, Nov 15
3:30 pm

FRI-B08 - Equity and Inclusion in Practice: How Do We Get There?
Location: 28ABC
Roberto J. Rovira, ASLA – Florida International University / Studio Roberto Rovira; Michael Grove, ASLA – SASAKI; Debra Guenther, FASLA – Mithun
Saturday, Nov 16
11:00 am

SAT-A10 - Wall Stories and Floor Stories: Narrative, Collaboration, and Design
Location: 31ABC
Robb Berg, ASLA – Design Workshop; Todd Johnson, FASLA, LEED Green Associate – Utah State University Deparment of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Science; Joshua Brooks, ASLA – SASAKI
Saturday, Nov 16
2:00 pm

SAT-B07 - Allies, Advocates, and Stakeholders: Building Up Women in Landscape Architecture
Location: 28DE
Magdalena Aravena, ASLA – Lamar Johnson Collaborative; Keith Wilson, ASLA – Wilson Design Studio; Haley Blakeman, ASLA, AICP – Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture, LSU
Saturday, Nov 16
2:00 pm

SAT-B06 - Contracts: Relationships, Rights, and Risk Management
Location: 29CD
Elena Brescia, FASLA – SCAPE Landscape Architecture DPC; Gregg Garmisa – Studio Gang Architects; Michael J. Vardaro, LEED AP – ZETLIN & DE CHIARA LLP; Stephen Whitehorn – Whitehorn Financial Group, Inc.
Saturday, Nov 16
3:30 pm

SAT-C09 - Mission-Based Practice
Location: 30DE
Kevin Conger, FASLA – CMG Landscape Architecture; Walter Hood, ASLA – Hood Design Studio; Kate Orff, ASLA – SCAPE Landscape Architecture DPC
Saturday, Nov 16
3:30 pm

SAT-C06 - What We're Getting Right: Working Toward Gender Parity in Landscape Architecture
Location: 22
Kate Douglas, Assoc. ASLA – BrightView Design Group; Christine L. Hilt, FASLA, LEED AP – CLH Design, P.A.; Roberto J. Rovira, ASLA – Florida International University / Studio Roberto Rovira; Rebecca Leonard, ASLA, FAICP, LEED AP – Lionheart Places LLC
Sunday, Nov 17
9:00 am

SUN-A07 - Beyond Number Crunching: Managing Projects, Processes, and People
Location: 22
Allyson Mendenhall, ASLA, LEED Green Associate – Design Workshop; Mark Dawson, FASLA – Sasaki; Alexis C. Landes, ASLA – SCAPE Landscape Architecture DPC
Sunday, Nov 17
9:00 am

SUN-A06 - Two-way Street: Building Value Through Long-Term Relationships
Location: 20D
Mark Hough, FASLA – Duke University; Gary R. Hilderbrand, FASLA – Reed Hilderbrand; Eric Kramer, ASLA – Reed Hilderbrand
Sunday, Nov 17
2:00 pm

SUN-B09 - Dream Team: Recruiting the Best and the Brightest Talent to Your Firm
Location: 31ABC
Aimee Duffy – Design Workshop; Patrick Dunn, ASLA – RDG Planning and Design; Salvador Impastato, ASLA – Studio Outside
Residential Design
Sunday, Nov 17
3:30 pm

SUN-C05 - The Evolution of the Front Yard: From Display Garden to Multiuse Space
Location: 29CD
Katie C. Seidenwurm, ASLA – Zinnia Design; Courtney Skybak, ASLA – Samuel H. Williamson Associates.; Jim Taylor, ASLA – The Lightfoot Planning Group
Security Design / CPTED
Sunday, Nov 17
9:00 am

SUN-A11 - Integrating Security into Site Design: Evolving Strategies for Protecting Public Spaces
Location: 30ABC
Margaret Plumb, Associate ASLA, LEED Green Associate – Design Workshop; Len Hopper, FASLA, LEED AP, SITES AP – Weintraub Diaz Landscape Architecture, PLLC; Kara Weaver, ASLA, LEED AP – GGN
Sustainable Design
Friday, Nov 15
8:30 am

DD-001 - Boots on the Ground: Measuring Landscape Performance in the Field
Location: 20A
Emily R. McCoy, ASLA, SITES AP – Design Workshop; Danielle Pieranunzi, LEED AP, SITES AP – Green Business Certification, Inc.; Michele Adams, LEED AP, PE – Meliora Design; Kathleen Wolf – University of Washington
Friday, Nov 15
1:30 pm

FRI-A08 - IT Flows Downhill: CSO and Wastewater Treatment as an Integrated Design Strategy
Location: 29CD
Manisha Kaul, ASLA, LEED AP, SITES AP – Design Workshop, Inc.; Keith Bowers, FASLA – Biohabitats; Tim Duggan, ASLA – Phronesis
Saturday, Nov 16
11:00 am

SAT-A08 - Climate, Mobility, and Community: Systems Thinking and the Future of Food
Location: 28DE
Gary Sorge, FASLA, AICP – Stantec; Bernadette Austin – University of California, Davis; Cannon Michael – Bowles Farming Company
Saturday, Nov 16
2:00 pm

SAT-B09 - “Living” Landscapes: The Landscape Architect’s Role in Achieving Living Building Challenge Certification
Location: 20A
Kate Tooke, ASLA – Sasaki; José Almiñana, FASLA, LEED AP, SITES AP – Andropogon; Billy D. Almond, FASLA – WPL
Saturday, Nov 16
2:00 pm

SAT-B08 - Ecotrace: Layering Ecology Into Practice
Location: 32AB
Allegra Bukojemsky, ASLA – ICF Jones and Stokes; Nancy Seaton – Future Green Studio; Gavin McMillan, FASLA – Hargreaves Associates
Sunday, Nov 17
9:00 am

SUN-A08 - Fact Check: Assessing Landscape Performance in Research and Practice
Location: 32AB
Tao Zhang, ASLA, LEED AP, SITES AP – Sasaki; Emily R. McCoy, ASLA, SITES AP – Design Workshop; Skip Graffam, FASLA, LEED AP – OLIN
Sunday, Nov 17
9:00 am

SUN-A09 - The Economics of Parks: Creating and Sustaining Successful Public Realm
Location: 29AB
Mary Margaret Jones, FASLA – Hargreaves Associates; Candace Damon – HR&A; Gina Ford, FASLA – Agency Landscape + Planning
Sunday, Nov 17
2:00 pm

SUN-B05 - Landscapes in Flux: Design Research Lessons from Three Exemplary Waterfronts
Location: 28ABC
Meghen Quinn, ASLA – Hargreaves Associates / Hargreaves Jones; Zachary Chrisco, PE – Sasaki; Michael Robinson, ASLA – SWA
Sunday, Nov 17
3:30 pm

SUN-C07 - Shifting Trends: Exploring SITES Opportunities in China
Location: 22
Dou Zhang, ASLA, LEED AP, SITES AP – Sasaki; Lingling Gong, Senior Economist – Shanghai EXPO Urban Best Practice Area Business Development Co.,Ltd; Danielle Pieranunzi, LEED AP, SITES AP – Green Business Certification, Inc.
Monday, Nov 18
10:30 am

MON-B09 - Doing the Extraordinary: Design Excellence Through Sustainable SITES Legislation
Location: 32AB
Kenneth J. Filarski, FAIA, LEED FELLOW, SITES AP – FILARSKI/ARCHITECTURE+PLANNING+RESEARCH; Kevin Burke, ASLA – Atlanta BeltLine Inc; Michele Adams, LEED AP, PE – Meliora Design
Sustainable Products and Materials
Friday, Nov 15
3:30 pm

FRI-B11 - Fundamental Materials, How They Weather, and Their Surrounding Cultures
Location: 28DE
Alexandra Mei, Assoc. ASLA – Merritt Chase; William Baumgardner, Assoc. ASLA – STOSS Landscape Urbanism; Kotchakorn Voraakhom, ASLA – Landprocess
Monday, Nov 18
8:30 am

MON-A06 - Breaking Free from Tropical Hardwoods: New Alternatives for Sustainability
Location: 29AB
Meg Calkins, FASLA, SITES AP – North Carolina State University; Laura Solano, ASLA – Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc.; Thomas C. Amoroso, ASLA – Andropogon
Technology / CAD / GIS / BIM
Friday, Nov 15
8:30 am

DD-002 - Drones V3.0: Using UAVs for Photogrammetry and Analysis in the Field
Location: 30DE
Christopher S. Sherwin, ASLA – CRAFT Landscape; Luke Hegeman, ASLA, LEED AP – MODUS Collective; Russell Thomman, ASLA – RVi Planning + Landscape Architecture
Friday, Nov 15
8:30 am

DD-005 - Responsive Hardscape Design: Parametric Systems for Achievable Complexity in Paving
Location: 31ABC
Henry L. Moll, III, Affil. ASLA – DAVID RUBIN Land Collective; Chris Landau, Affil. ASLA – LANDAU Design+Technology; Allison K. Harvey, ASLA – OJB Landscape Architecture
Friday, Nov 15
8:30 am

DD-006 - Zero to One: Open Your Practice to the World of BIM
Location: 32AB
Xue (Phyllis) Zhou, ASLA – AECOM; Aidan Ackerman, ASLA – State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry; Lauren Schmidt, ASLA – GGN
Friday, Nov 15
1:30 pm

FRI-A09 - Soundscape Ecology: How Listening to the Environment Can Shape Design and Planning
Location: 30ABC
Lauren Mandel, ASLA – Andropogon; Michael I. Mandel – Brooklyn College; Christopher Streb, PE – Biohabitats
Saturday, Nov 16
2:00 pm

SAT-B10 - New Ways to Dream: Visualizing the Landscape with Immersive Technology
Location: 22
Benjamin H. George, ASLA – Utah State University; Andrew Sargeant, Associate ASLA – Lionheart Places LLC; Jessica Fernandez, ASLA, LEED AP – University of Georgia and ALPHA Design Studio
Sunday, Nov 17
9:00 am

SUN-A10 - Identify the Gap: Using Technology and Data for Inclusive Community Involvement
Location: 30DE
Gloria Lau, ASLA, AICP – Stantec; Emmalee Dolfi – The Trust for Public Land; Darin C. Welch – HNTB Corporation
Monday, Nov 18
8:30 am

MON-A07 - Integrating Ecology and Technology to Maximize Beneficial Impacts
Location: 20A
Heather Stone Henry, Assoc. ASLA – The Plantium Company; Judy E. Venonsky, ASLA – OLIN; Chris Landau, Affil. ASLA – LANDAU Design+Technology
Transportation / Intermodality / Complete Streets
Friday, Nov 15
1:30 pm

FRI-A10 - Manassas Street, A Tactical and Artistic Urban Street Transformation in Memphis
Location: 32AB
Daniel Ashworth, Jr., ASLA, AICP – Alta Planning + Design; Susannah Barton – Memphis Medical District Collaborative; Cat Pena – Collabortory / Independent Public Art Consultant
Saturday, Nov 16
11:00 am

SAT-A11 - Resilient Streets: Expanding Public Realm and Mobility
Location: 29CD
Mary Lydecker, ASLA, LEED AP – Hargreaves Associates; Chris Bongorno, LEED AP – Nelson\Nygaard; Paula Meijerink, ASLA – Knowlton School, The Ohio State University
Sunday, Nov 17
2:00 pm

SUN-B10 - Challenging Cultural Norms: Transportation, Art, and Placemaking in the American South
Location: 30DE
Andrew Kohr, ASLA – Pond; Ben Stone – Smart Growth America; Jonathan Campbell, ASLA
Monday, Nov 18
8:30 am

MON-A08 - A Design Framework for Livable Streets in the Era of Autonomous Vehicles
Location: 20D
Michael Johnson, ASLA – SmithGroup; Melissa L. Ruhl – ARUP; Bruce Appleyard
Urban Design / Downtown Revitalization
Friday, Nov 15
8:30 am

DD-003 - Evolving a Modernist Mecca: The Legacy, Life, and Landscape of Columbus, Indiana
Location: 20D
Gina Ford, FASLA – Agency Landscape + Planning; David A. Rubin, FASLA – DAVID RUBIN Land Collective; Richard S. McCoy – Landmark Columbus; Elizabeth H. Kubany – KubanyJudlowe; Jane Amidon, ASLA – Urban Landscape Program, Northeastern University
Friday, Nov 15
9:00 am

FS-011 - Sketch San Diego! Urban Watercolor Workshop
Location: 29CD
Robert Chipman, ASLA – Robert Chipman Landscape Architect, Inc; James Richards, FASLA – JamesRichardsSketchbook.com; Richard Alomar, ASLA – Rutgers University; Chip Sullivan, Jr., ASLA – University of California, Berkeley
Friday, Nov 15
3:30 pm

FRI-B09 - Ideas Lab: Four Unique Riverfront Visions for Reinventing the Nation’s Third Coast
Location: 30ABC
Hana Ishikawa, Affil. ASLA, AIA – site design group, ltd.; Kate Tooke, ASLA – Sasaki; Sarah W. Astheimer, ASLA – James Corner Field Operations; Ying-yu Hung, FASLA – SWA
Saturday, Nov 16
11:00 am

SAT-A09 - Postwar Plazas: Measuring Success When Managing Change
Location: 28ABC
Charles A. Birnbaum – The Cultural Landscape Foundation; Susan M. Rademacher, Hon. ASLA – Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy; Ken Smith, FASLA – Ken Smith Workshop
Saturday, Nov 16
2:00 pm

SAT-B11 - After Whyte: The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces Forty Years Later
Location: 20D
Emily Schlickman, ASLA – University of California, Davis; Thomas Balsley, FASLA – SWA / Balsley; Stella Y. Kim – NYC Department of City Planning
Saturday, Nov 16
3:30 pm

SAT-C11 - Super (Technical) Heroes of Hudson Yards; Structure, Soils, and the Civic Realm
Location: 30ABC
Thomas Woltz, FASLA – Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects; Eli B. Gottlieb, PE – Thornton Tomasetti; Robert Pine, FASLA, PE – Pine & Swallow Environmental
Sunday, Nov 17
2:00 pm

SUN-B07 - Reimagining El-Space: The Next Frontier in Urban Landscape Design and Planning
Location: 22
Susan Chin, Hon. ASLA, FAIA – Design Trust for Public Space; Deborah Weintraub, AIA, LEED AP – City of Los Angeles; Neil Gagliardi, ASLA – New York City Department of Transportation
Sunday, Nov 17
3:30 pm

SUN-C09 - Defining Equitable and Inclusive Landscape Architecture
Location: 28ABC
Thaisa Way, FASLA – University of Washington; Mitchell Silver, AICP – NYC Department of Parks & Recreation; Diane Jones Allen, ASLA – University of Texas, Arlington
Sunday, Nov 17
3:30 pm

SUN-C10 - UPSTREAM URBANISM: Redefining the Role of the Landscape Architect as City Builders
Location: 20A
Michael Grove, ASLA – SASAKI; Brian Jencek, ASLA, AIA, AICP – HOK; Michael Johnson, ASLA – SmithGroup
Monday, Nov 18
8:30 am

MON-A10 - Queer Urbanism and Design: Past, Present, Future
Location: 28ABC
Sam Sikanas, ASLA – W Architecture and Landscape Architecture; Addison Vawters – Fourth Arts Block (FABnyc); Emilio Martinez – Fourth Arts Block (FABnyc)
Monday, Nov 18
8:30 am

MON-A09 - Spatial Multiplicity: Weaving Complex and Diverse Narratives in the Public Realm
Location: 29CD
DIANA Fernandez, ASLA – SASAKI; Lisa T. Switkin, ASLA – James Corner Field Operations; Mark Rios, FASLA, FAIA – Rios Hale Clementi studios
Water - Stormwater Management
Friday, Nov 15
1:30 pm

WS-002 - Technical Workshop: Preparing for Landscape Architect Registration Exam Section 4
Location: 25BC
Thomas J. Nieman, FASLA – University of Kentucky; Angela Woodward, ASLA – ima design group; Donnie Longenecker, ASLA – University of Georgia
Friday, Nov 15
3:30 pm

FRI-B10 - Kennedy Greened: A Streetscape Planned, Designed, and Now Built!
Location: 32AB
Kevin R. Perry, FASLA – Urban Rain Design, Inc.; Nicole Holmes, Affil. ASLA, LEED AP, PE – Nitsch Engineering; Seth Charde, LEED AP – DC Water
Sunday, Nov 17
2:00 pm

SUN-B11 - The Role of Stormwater Management in Landscape Architecture
Location: 20D
Neal Shapiro CPSWQ, CSM, ENV SP, LEED Green Associate – City of Santa Monica, Office of Sustainability & the Environment; Russell Ackerman, Affiliate ASLA, SITES AP – City of Santa Monica
Sunday, Nov 17
3:30 pm

SUN-C11 - Social/Ecological Resilience of Green Infrastructure When Design and Engineering Are Integrated
Location: 20D
Natalie Carmen, ASLA – Stewart; Peg Staeheli, FASLA, LEED AP – MIG|SvR; Francisco X. Rivera, PE – City of Chula Vista Engineering & Capital Projects Department
Water - Sustainable Amenity Design
Friday, Nov 15
7:30 am

FS-003 - The San Diego River: Birth and Rebirth of an Ecosystem
Location: Lobby Outside Exhibit Hall F
Richard D. Barrett, ASLA – MIG; Rob Hutsel – San Diego River Park Foundation; Martin Flores, ASLA – Carrier Johnson