Technology / CAD / GIS / BIM

Professional Practice Network (PPN) Session

MON-A07 - Integrating Ecology and Technology to Maximize Beneficial Impacts

1.50 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AICP, FL, NY/HSW, ISA

Lead Speaker(s)

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  Heather Stone Henry, Assoc. ASLA

  CEO, President
  The Plantium Company

Speaker(s)

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  Judy Venonsky, ASLA

  Associate, Landscape Architect, Living Systems Specialist
  OLIN
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  Chris Landau, Affil. ASLA

  Designer and Technologist
  LANDAU Design+Technology

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.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn how the selection of beneficial plants affects larger environmental and social systems.
• Learn how rules-based computer algorithms can generate and visualize a rules-based ecological planting design.
• Learn what plant databases can assist in choosing beneficial plants; review strengths and shortfalls.
• Learn about current interagency efforts to create a common language plant database.