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Please join ASLA-NY and Assemblage Landscape Architecture for an Urban Forest Walk as part of Forest for All NYC‘s City of Forest Day!
“City of Forest Day is an annual day of activities across the city to raise awareness of the importance of the New York City urban forest, and the essential role New Yorkers play every day in caring for the ‘lungs’ of our city.”
Our knowledgeable tour guides will lead a study of a biodiverse tree corridor along Fulton Street in Brooklyn, incorporating four distinct triangle parks: Betty Carter Park, Fowler Square, Cuyler Gore Park, and Gateway Triangle.
This walk will go on Rain or Shine! Spots are limited, so please only register if you’re coming.
Approved: 2 LA CES HSW PDU
For more information see:
Forest for All
Assemblage Landscape Architecture
Speaker Bios
CATE MEERSMAN | WEDG
Cate is a landscape designer at Assemblage Landscape Architecture, with experience in both design and environmental planning. She is passionate about projects that enhance the health and resilience of land and communities through collaborative design. Her interdisciplinary design research explores the layered and complex histories of sites through drawing, mapping, and other forms of generative exploration. Cate is committed to improving the public realm in New York City through volunteering and stewardship with the local environmental organization Gowanus Canal Conservancy.
In addition to design, Cate enjoys teaching and most recently co-taught a summer intensive landscape architecture foundation studio at UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design. Cate holds an MLA from UC Berkeley, and a BLA from the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign where she received a National ASLA Student Honor Award. She also serves as a guest critic at Columbia GSAPP student reviews.
NOELLE LaDUE
Noelle is a landscape designer at Stantec. She has two years of professional experience in landscape design, at Stantec and EKLA, as well as three years of prior professional experience in the community engagement and legal advocacy fields. Her undergraduate degree is from Cornell, in Development Sociology, where she did a research thesis on agroecology and seed saving, and the associated connections between soil health and community health. She has also worked as a gardener, landscaper, in plant breeding labs, and on a small organic farm. These formative, hands-on experiences eventually led her to landscape architecture, right at the time Pratt was starting their new MLA program, where she was part of their first graduating class. She now lives in Brooklyn with her two cats, loves going to see independent films around the city, identifying plants, biking, and has recently caught the birdwatching bug! All of these experiences make her a thoughtful designer and steward of public space.
