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27th Annual Landscape Design Portfolios Lecture Series
Three Tuesdays: October 14 & 28; November 4, 2025
6:30 to 7:30 p.m. ET | Online
Todd Forrest: Creating an Urban Oasis
October 14, 2025; 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. | Online
As one of the Garden’s remarkable leaders, Todd Forrest, Arthur Ross Vice President for Horticulture and Living Collections, has dedicated himself to the development and reimagination of many well-loved areas within these 250 acres for over 20 years. Hear from Forrest as he reveals the role landscape architecture plays in enticing visitors to return every season. He will share how his collaborations with distinguished landscape architects and designers—such as Laurie Olin, Signe Nielsen, Lynden Miller, Madison Cox, Susan Cohen, Piet Oudolf, Sarah Price, Shavaun Towers, just to name a few—have brought varied artistic visions to NYBG.
Mikyoung Kim: Designing For Higher Ground
October 28, 2025; 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. | Online
Mikyoung Kim, FASLA, is the founding principal of MYK, a globally recognized landscape and urban design studio that integrates the latest research in neurodivergent science into the design of our shared experiences. Her work bridges public health policy with environmental stewardship, creating places that foster resilience, connection, and well-being. Join Kim as she shares how landscapes are an important catalyst for public health and urban resilience. Her talk will feature celebrated large-scale projects such as the Regenstein Learning Campus at the Chicago Botanic Garden, the Cheonggye River Restoration Project in Seoul, and the TMC Helix Park in Houston.
Walter Hood: Cultural Storytelling Through Design
November 4, 2025; 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. | Online
MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant-winner Walter Hood creates green spaces that resonate with and enrich the lives of residents while also honoring communal histories. As founder and creative director of Oakland-based firm Hood Design Studio, he has transformed a variety of areas—from the redesign of traffic islands, vacant lots, and freeway underpasses—to large-scale commemorative landscapes that reflect his firm’s interest in the role of sculpture in public space. Hood will share projects that approach design through the lens of cultural storytelling and community engagement, including the highly-praised International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, and his firm’s upcoming redesign of the landscape surrounding Lincoln Center and Damrosch Park in NYC.