2019 Conference Information & Registration

2019 Conference Information & Registration

TITLE:    Work with Local Government to Grow Landscape Architecture

Presenter: Annette R. Marchesseault, RLA

Approved LACES course

SYNOPSIS:    Landscape architecture sits at the nexus of architecture, urban and regional planning, and civil and environmental engineering. We tend to look at systems rather than individual elements. We examine how people move through sites. We have creative solutions that often are more pleasing and less expensive than the traditional engineered solutions. And yet, the broad range of our skills is not well known or taken advantage of. Whys is that? Why do landscape architects usually play only a supporting role on multi-disciplinary teams? Why don’t landscape architects lead more multi-disciplinary teams? This presentation will delve into how landscape architects can and should establish working relationships with key policy makers – the people who set guidelines and policies, control much of the funding for public work, define project scope, and issue RFPs. Even if there is not a specific ask, these types of meetings can substantially improve the awareness of the profession. I will talk about how to identify key contacts and decision makers, and what messages are effective. I also will examine some policy changes that could help increase opportunities for landscape architects.

TITLE: Green Stormwater Opportunities for a Sustainable Future

Speakers:  Steve Hubble, Boise City Stormwater Program Coordinator

Steve Hubble is the Stormwater Program Coordinator for the City of Boise providing overall guidance for the city’s stormwater program and ensuring the city’s compliance with our Municipal Stormwater Discharge Permit.  He also supports other Public Works programs related to sustainability and energy.  Prior to his move to Boise, Steve worked fourteen years with Stafford County Virginia in various roles with their Public Works Department.  Steve lives in Boise with his wife Sarah.

Approved LACES course

Description:

Green infrastructure is a cost-effective, resilient approach to managing wet weather impacts that provides many community benefits. While single-purpose gray stormwater infrastructure—conventional piped drainage and water treatment systems—is designed to move urban stormwater away from the built environment, green infrastructure reduces and treats stormwater at its source while delivering environmental, social, and economic benefits. Learn how Boise and others, are looking to create opportunities to develop green storm water approaches in their communities.

Topic: Designing Evolving Landscapes

Presenter: Daniel Cronan, Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture, Art and Architecture 308, UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO

Approved LACES course

Seminar title: The INFEWS Studio: Cultivating Research and Design through Trajectories of Change

Description:

Creating a synergistic interaction between a research project, a student group, and a stakeholder group can have a significant impact for learning, research, and design for resilient futures. Students with an active role as researchers within a landscape architecture and planning studio become engaged through topics pertinent to a concurrent project. The purpose of this project is to integrate landscape architecture and planning education with a research project addressing socio-ecological issues evident in a suite of scenario trends for a landscape. Outputs from the project can potentially be used to define better management and implementation solutions for policy and landscape implementation at multiple scales.

The University of Idaho Landscape Architecture INFEWS studio evokes stakeholder-defined key issues addressed within a funded National Science Foundation (NSF) project in Magic Valley, Idaho. Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems (INFEWS) is an interdisciplinary research project seeking to address issues concerning drought, water demand, water quality, and food security by using a stakeholder-driven geodesign framework (Steinitz, 2012). This studio course applies student research through the geodesign methodology, and evaluates key competencies relevant for planning students (Steinitz, 1990). It systematically evaluates plausible scenarios within the course by analyzing spatially explicit evidence of alignment with stakeholder assumptions at the landscape and site scale. The results aim to inform initial scenario development, scenario modeling parameters for the years 2050, and equip educators and researchers in Landscape Architecture and Planning for a process for geodesign course instruction and revision. Similarly, results intend to provide communities in Magic Valley with actionable strategic plans for trends which potentially impact their region (i.e. drought, population growth, food demand, water quality issues due to agriculture and dairies).

This study presents and interprets the student landscape and site designs aligned with plausible futures for Magic Valley. Findings intend to indicate specific areas for intervention supported by design responses from the research and student group. As an example, student teams focused on resilient design of urban and rural areas with the City of Shoshone, ID as they noted affected areas due to externalities from all stakeholder-informed scenarios. Learning outcomes will guide recommendations for future courses regarding multi-scalar approaches for integrating research in landscape architecture and planning education.

Researchers and students will submit studio outputs for display at the IMASLA Conference in the form of presentation boards to generate discussion. The presenter will generate a pdf presentation and a Storymaps presentation. The presentations will be shared with Conference attendees to further the conversation about methods used and presented.

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