Sustainable Design

60-Minute Education Session

Emerging Professionals

SUN-A08 - Fact Check: Assessing Landscape Performance in Research and Practice

1.00 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AIA/non-HSW, AICP, FL, GBCI CE, NY/HSW

Lead Speaker(s)

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  Tao Zhang, ASLA, LEED AP, SITES AP

  Principal
  Sasaki

Speaker(s)

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  Emily McCoy, ASLA, SITES AP

  Landscape Architect
  Design Workshop
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  Skip Graffam, FASLA, LEED AP

  Partner and Director of Research
  OLIN

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

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the danger of greenwash and falsely claimed design achievements to the profession’s credibility.
• Learn about the constraints of conducting research and post-occupancy evaluation in landscape architecture practice.
• Understand the gap between the academic community and practitioners, and unleashed potential for broad collaboration.
• Hear the lessons learned by practitioners and researchers in measuring the environmental and socioeconomic performance of landscapes.