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April 2020
Postponed: ASLA-NY: Design Awards Reception
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED Please save the date for the Annual Design Awards held by the American Society of Landscape Architects, New York Chapter. The awards represent excellence in professional accomplishment by ASLA New York members in five categories: General Design, Residential Design, Collaborative Design, Analysis/Planning/Research and Communications, and Un-Built Projects. April 15th 6pm-8pm Center for Architeture More information and registration coming soon. Thank you to our Prime Sponsor: And our Event Supporter:
Find out more »Postponed: 2020 Rising Urbanists Conference
POSTPONED UNTIL SEPTEMBER 2020 The ASLA-NY Student Chapter at the City College of New York is organizing a multi-disciplinary conference around ways to address the climate crisis, drawing on approaches from many fields to build a collective understanding and act within this dynamic environmental moment. This conference is a groundbreaking forum for the next generation of urbanist thinkers to redefine ways to respond to the climate emergency and STRIVE FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE. An expansive approach to this climate emergency…
Find out more »Postponed: ASLA-NY Sketch Walk with Richard Alomar
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED Please join ASLA-NY and Richard Alomar for our annual Sketch Walk on April 19th. Details and registration coming soon. Generously sponsored by:
Find out more »AIA-NY: WEBINAR – Earth Day Dialogue: Designing for Planetary and Public Health
This event is free for AIA and ASLA members. *This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* 04/22/2020 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM AIA New York is organizing a webinar on the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, featuring a panel discussion on the connections between the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change. The conversation will discuss the various shocks to our planet and public health systems, and how cities can play a vital role…
Find out more »Kompan Research Seminar: Creating Unique Play Spaces to Increase Play Duration
Please join Kompan for an online seminar on April 28th at 12pm. Active outdoor play is an essential human activity across the lifespan. Being outdoors has proven benefits for our health, wellbeing, and our cognition. However, healthy play experiences do not happen on their own, they require thoughtful and intentional design. In order to motivate people to play actively and for longer playtimes in the outdoors we must start with design principles that are directly linked to increasing motivation, attention,…
Find out more »May 2020
Audubon NY: Using Native Plants in the Landscape
Tuesday, May 5, 2020 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM Join via Zoom Webinar! Webinar registration details will be sent via email once ticket purchase is made. Schedule: 8:30 – 8:45 Welcome and Introduction 8:45 – 9:55 Native Trees and Shrubs; Urban Forestry with Vinnie Drzewucki from Cornell Cooperative Extension, Nassau 9:55 – 11:05 A Bird's Eye View to Ecoscaping with Joy Cirigliano, Ecosystem Specialist 11:05-11:15 Short Break 11:15-12:25 How to Create an Aesthetically Pleasing, Healthy Native Habitat with Rusty Schmidt, Landscape Ecologist 12:25 – 12:30 Wrap up; Credits Distribution LA Credits: This landscape ecology program offers 3 HSW credit…
Find out more »Designing for a Resilient Future through WEDG® (Waterfront Edge Design Guidelines)
Join Waterfront Alliance for a WEDG Webinar. From sea level rise, to complex ecosystems, community dynamics, and regulatory requirements, waterfront design is complex—and we need better tools to help us mitigate risk, as well as prepare for the future and the challenges ahead. Developed by a cross-cutting field of experts, the WEDG® (Waterfront Edge Design Guidelines) tool is helping communities, design professionals, and government agencies manage these complexities, and can be a critical tool in a green infrastructure recovery post-pandemic.…
Find out more »AIA-NY: Is Wood Good? The Truth about Tropicals
*reduced pricing for ASLA-NY Members. Architects and builders are being encouraged to use more wood because of its reported ability to sequester carbon, a key sustainability issue. Yet globally, forests are being destroyed faster than ever. How does an increasing demand for wood relate to forest loss and what are the implications for biodiversity, carbon sequestration, and planetary health? How can one differentiate ‘good wood’ from ‘bad’? How can we achieve a truly sustainable forest economy and what is…
Find out more »GRHC: New York Virtual Symposium
New NYC Local Laws 92 and 94 require green roofs, solar panels or a combination of both on all new roofs and roof replacements. Strong policy has been a key driver in New York becoming a green infrastructure leader. Learn from the pros at GRHC’s NYC Virtual Symposium about excellent design projects, new regulations, the Climate Mobilization Act, and sources of project funding. Pending 3 LU|HSW credits from ASLA, APLD, and GRP Pending submission to GBCI for approval This…
Find out more »June 2020
CCNY: Expert Panel: Landscape Architecture Licensure
Join CCNY to hear from the experts about the path toward landscape architecture licensure, including exam and experience requirements and strategies. Following the presentation there will be a question and answer session. Jordan Guerrero, Landscape Designer, SITEWORKS; ASLA-NY Board Member and Programs Committee Co-Chair Marisa Kushner, Communications and Outreach Manager, CLARB Andrew Lavallee, FASLA, RLA; Partner, SITEWORKS; Adjunct Professor, CCNY Robert Lopez, RA, New York State Education Department Office of the Professions; New York State Boards of Architecture & Landscape Architecture…
Find out more »Gowanus Blue Schools Design Challenge
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Find out more »ASLA-NY & Victor Stanley: Economic Resilience: Overcoming Financial Uncertainty in Landscape Architecture
Resilience is a term that most Landscape Architects are familiar with, especially when thinking about issues surrounding climate change. For example, we consider our coastlines in the face of sea level rise, and impervious urban space with regard to increased storm severity and flood risk. Our economic climate also undergoes periods of upheaval and we as Landscape Architects, designers and emerging professionals must also be agile in our ability to adapt to these dynamic and sometimes unpredictable forces. This panel…
Find out more »Land8 – Equity, Justice, and Landscape Panel
Sparked by the murders of Black Americans by police officers, rebellions in many cities have revealed systemic disparities in the living conditions of people based on race, class and gender. The built environment is going through a rapid re-examination of its role in enabling or inhibiting social equity and racial justice. How could this impact how landscape architects are taught and how they practice? How could we encode equity and justice into our work? In this interactive session, multidisciplinary panelists…
Find out more »Let’s Talk Plants: An ASLA Webinar Series
Panel 1 - Why Natives? Throughout the next few months, the New York Chapters of the ASLA will host a webinar series centered on the topic of native planting. For each event, a panel of regional and internationally-renowned experts will come together to present their perspectives and engage in conversation enabling attendees to peer behind the curtain and learn new approaches to native planting design. This four-part series will cover topics such as: the importance of natives, the realities of…
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