Schedule / Conference and Reception

Thursday, October 14 - Reception

6:00-8:00pm

Opening Reception

ABC Stone - 129 West 22nd St
Separate registration required
 

Friday, October 15 - Symposium
Highline Stages  - 440 West 15th St

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8:00-9:00am

Registration
9:00-9:15

Welcome

Charles A. Birnbaum, FASLA, President & CEO, The Cultural Landscape Foundation

9:15-9:30

Opening Remarks

Elizabeth K. Meyer, FASLA, Merrill D. Peterson Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia School of Architecture

9:30-11:20

Three Perspectives on Leading with Landscape Architecture

Martha Schwartz, FASLA, Hon RIBA, Hon RDI, Senior Partner, Martha Schwartz Partners
Kate Orff, RLA, FASLA, Founding Principal, SCAPE
Lisa Switkin, FAAR, ASLA, Senior Principal, James Corner Field Operations

11:20-11:50

Break

11:50-1:00

What We Can Do Part 1: Preparing and Adapting Bureaucracies for our Future Climate

Opening Remarks: Heather M. Morgan, RLA, Director of Climate Risk Adaptation, AECOM Metro New York

Signe Nielsen, RLA, FASLA, Principal, MNLA
Annette P. Wilkus, FASLA, Founder, SiteWorks Landscape Architecture

1:00-2:20

Lunch

2:20-2:30

Oberlander Prize Remarks

Dorothée Imbert, Inaugural Oberlander Prize Chair

2:30-3:40

What We Can Do Part 2: Biological Diversity is as Important as Social Diversity

Opening Remarks: Rebecca McMackin, Director of Horticulture, Brooklyn Bridge Park

Edwina von Gal, Founder / President, Perfect Earth Project
Barbara Wilks, FASLA, FAIA, Principal and Founder, W Architecture and Landscape Architecture

3:40-4:50

Closing Panel: Pathways to Civic Engagement

Opening Remarks: John Beardsley, Curator of The Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize, The Cultural Landscape Foundation

Mary Margaret Jones, President and CEO, Hargreaves Jones
Amy L. Freitag, Executive Director, The J.M. Kaplan Fund
Miranda K.S. Massie, Director, The Climate Museum
Olivia Georgia, Executive Director, City as a Living Laboratory

4:50-5:00pm

Closing Remarks
 

Saturday, October 16 – Field Sessions

10:00-11:30am  2:00-3:30pm

Little Island, Manhattan

Join Signe Nielsen and learn about Little Island (formally Pier 55) a park, "conceived as a leaf floating in the water."
SOLD OUT

Afternoon tour open to sypmosium attendees only.
SOLD OUT

10:00-11:30am

Domino Park, Brooklyn

Join Field Operations and explore Domino Park, a five-acre park that showcases the history of an iconic industrial waterfront site by integrating found objects from the site's past.
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11:00am-12:30pm

Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn

Join Brooklyn Bridge Park’s (BBP) Director of Horticulture and Courageous by Design speaker, Rebecca McMackin, as she delves into the plant and wildlife management strategies for the park.
Register here

2:00-4:00pm

Hunter’s Point South Waterfront Park, Queens

Join Thomas Balsley, Marion Weiss, and Annette Wilkus at Hunter's Point South in Queens, “an international model of urban ecology and a world laboratory for innovative sustainable thinking.”
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