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Virtual LA CES™ Education Sessions

We are pleased to bring you live virtual learning opportunities and look forward to joining you and your team. Additional live events are in planning for 2025. Please sign-up for our E-NEWS to be alerted when new sessions become available.

 

 

Naturalistic Planting Design Part II: Designing Naturalistic Plant Communities

Credits: 1.0 PDH
Speakers: Aaron Fox | Landscape Architect

 
This presentation will review the main concepts from the previous presentation on Naturalistic Planting Design, and demonstrate how to use them to design a naturalistic plant community that provides an appropriate balance between aesthetic value and supporting biodiversity. It will provide participants with a process they can use to design a naturalistic plant community, and review each of the steps involved in that process. Participants should have a clear sense of how naturalistic planting design differs from conventional planting design, as well as what they need to consider to effectively design a naturalistic plant community.

Learning objectives:
1. Understand the main concepts of naturalistic planting design.
2. Recognize how naturalistic planting design differs from conventional planting design.
3. Identify the process and steps that can be used to design a naturalistic plant community.
4. Describe how to design a naturalistic plant community that provides an appropriate balance between aesthetic value and supporting biodiversity.

Naturalistic Planting Design Part I is available for on-demand here.

 

 

THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION’S Landslide In Action: Prelude to the Modern Preservation Movement

Credits: 1.5 PDH
Speakers: Dena Tasse-Winter | Village Preservation’s Director of Research and Preservation
Laura Feller | Author
Monica Rhodes | Cultural Preservationist
Richard Longstreth | Professor Emeritus of American Studies at George Washington University

 
Empowering the powerless is a key element of the modern historic preservation movement. Ordinary citizens advocating for a shared interest could work together to affect change. Milestones in the movement include the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (NHPA), and the renaming of the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards from “historic buildings” to “historic properties,” a consequential distinction (1992). But two events on opposite coasts several years before the NHPA’s enactment were harbingers of what decades of organized citizen activism would look like and could achieve: in New York City two roadways were proposed through historic Washington Square Park; and in Seattle, Washington, the historic Pike Place Market neighborhood could have been eradicated. A broad coalition of activists succeeded at preventing both.

Since then, the National Register of Historic Places was created, the number of advocates and advocacy organizations grew, and the use of legislative tools such as Section 106 of the NHPA gave advocates a “seat at the table.” However, the term “preservation” has also become weaponized with preservationists perceived and depicted as the people of “no.” While state and local activism grew, the sense of national leadership dissipated. Some question if there is even a preservation movement today.

Three generations of preservation professionals will look at the origins and the successes, and how the movement expanded to embrace cultural heritage and cultural lifeways. Most significantly, the panel will look at how a new generation of preservationists is making “preservation” relevant, exciting, and meaningful by focusing on some recent successes that point to strategies for the movement’s future.

Learning objectives:
1. Identify physical conditions and historical contexts that can inform present-day planning and design solutions.
2. Learn ways that landscape architects can work with communities to make visible and instill value for these historic resources.
3. Determine tools to better define the integrity and significance of cultural landscapes that have been subjected to erasure.

 

 

THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION’S Landslide In Action: Independence Mall Equal Rights Protests

Credits: 1.5 PDH (pending)
Speakers: Charles A. Birnbaum | President and CEO- The Cultural Landscape Foundation
Andrew Dolkart | Professor of Historic Preservation– Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University
Max Dickson | Senior Certified Planner– OLIN
Bob Skiba | Curator– John J. Wilcox, Jr. LGBT Archives at the William Way Community Center
Sahar Coston-Hardy | Fine Art and Landscape Architecture Photographer

 
A major precursor to the 1969 Stonewall protests in New York City’s Greenwich Village, often seen as the genesis of the modern gay rights movement, were the “Annual Reminder Day” marches that took place for five years every July 4th on Philadelphia’s Independence Mall beginning in 1965. Independence Mall and the Stonewall National Monument are maintained by the National Park Service (NPS); recently, written recognition of Philadelphia’s LGBTQ heritage and legacy of LGBTQ activism was deactivated on NPS’ website and the Stonewall website was altered to remove references to transgender and queer – the TQ in LGBTQ.

This year is the 60th anniversary of the first “Annual Reminder Day” and 56 years since Stonewall; since those events there have been extraordinary changes in law, society, and culture – including the legalization of same sex marriage.

Webinar participants will address the significance of the 1960s protests in Philadelphia and New York, maintaining the history and memory of these events, and current challenges and threats. The session will be moderated by Charles A. Birnbaum, President and CEO of TCLF.

Learning objectives:
1. Identify physical conditions and historical contexts that can inform present-day planning and design solutions.
2. Learn ways that landscape architects can work with communities to make visible and instill value for these historic resources.
3. Determine tools to better define the integrity and significance of cultural landscapes that have been subjected to erasure.

 

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

We are welcoming a call for submissions for our Virtual LA CES™ Education Sessions.

Do you have a project, or a topic related to Landscape Architecture you would like to present to a national audience? Transform your research, ideas, and best practices into a presentation accredited by LA CES.

Our virtual webinars draw around 200-300 attendees for each session and provide amazing opportunities to learn from experts and peers on a wide variety of topics. If there are any topics or speakers you’d like to hear more from, let us know! We look forward to hearing from you.

 
 

 

 

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