Friday, April 9
Schedule Overview
OPENING CEREMONY
LABash 2021 Executive Committee and Esteemed Guests
Introductions from ASLA CEO Torey Carter-Conneen, LABash 2021 Executive Director Nicole Nomura, and Cornell University Landscape Architecture Department Chair Tim Baird
5:00 to 5:30 p.m. EST
KOFI BOONE
Opening Keynote Presentation // LACES Credit Available
The Commons: Land, Property, Information, and Landscape Agency
5:30 to 7:00 p.m. EST
FRIDAY EVENING SOCIAL
LABash 2021 Trivia Night
A night of fun games and prizes hosted by our LABash 2021 Social Committee!
7:30 to 8:30 p.m. EST
Saturday, April 10
Schedule Overview
Co-Lecture // LACES Credit Available
JENNIFER NG AND ELAINE LIMMER
Breaking Down the Zoom Barrier; Alternatives to Community Engagement During COVID-19
10:00 to 11:00 am EST
Panel Discussion // LACES Credit Available
OLIN
Practicing Justice
10:00 to 11:00 am EST
Co-Lecture
JUANITA SHEARER-SWINK AND KRISTOPHER PRITCHARD
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the LAAB Accreditation Standards
10:00 to 11:00 am EST
Lecture // LACES Credit Available
BARBARA DEUTSCH
The Green New Deal Superstudio
11:15 am to 12:15 pm EST
Co-Lecture
JODI HOUSE AND MOLLY PLUMMER
Why Connections Matter: Designing for Community Resiliency
11:15 am to 12:15 pm EST
Lecture
JENN LOW
Design Shifts in the 21st Century: Deliberate Moves to Bend Toward Justice
11:15 am to 12:15 pm EST
Lecture
DR. BO ZHANG
Smart Landscape, Compacted Landscape: Critically Engaging Social Media to Understand Open Space Publicity
11:15 am to 12:15 pm EST
SATURDAY LUNCH HOUR
Presented by the LABash 2021 Social Committee!
Network with conference attendees and join our prize raffles!
12:15 to 1:15 pm EST
SIGNE NIELSEN
Saturday Afternoon Keynote Presentation // LACES Credit Available
Equity by Design
1:15 to 2:45 pm EST
Lecture
TORI KJER
Parks for People: Stories of Park Design and Landscape Architecture Advocacy from
Los Angeles
3:00 to 4:00 pm EST
Lecture
ALBERTO DE SALVATIERRA
Soft Infrastructures and Solarpunk Urbanism
3:00 to 4:00 pm EST
Co-Lecture
JAMES ROJAS AND JOHN KAMP
Playing to Plan: Engaging People in Cities and the Natural World Through Their Hands, Body, and Senses
3:00 to 4:00 pm EST
Lecture // LACES Credit Available
DR. DOUGLAS WILLIAMS
Sacred Ground
4:15 to 5:15 pm EST
Lecture
KARI SPIEGELHALTER
Data and Democracy: Design Processes for Community Health
4:15 to 5:15 pm EST
Lecture
GRACE ZHENG
Complexities Behind Practicing in "Paradise"
4:15 to 5:15 pm EST
Panel Discussion
GGN
Landscape as Relational Practice: Connecting People To and Through the Land
4:15 to 5:15 pm EST
BLACKLAN
Saturday Evening Keynote Presentation
The Black Landscape Architects Network
Featuring Marc Miller, Ujijji Davis Williams, Elizabeth Kennedy, Glenn LaRue Smith, and Guest-Moderator Samantha Solano
5:30 to 7:00 pm EST
SATURDAY EVENING SOCIAL
LABash 2021 Scribble Night
A night of fun games and prizes hosted by our LABash 2021 Social Committee!
8:00 to 9:00 pm EST
CLAIMING OPEN SPACES WITH DR. AUSTIN ALLEN
Film Screening and Director's Q+A
Moderated by Cornell University Landscape Architecture Faculty Members Anne Weber and Martin Hogue, and MLA Student Juwan McIntyre
8:00 to 10:45 pm
Sunday, April 11
Schedule Overview
Co-Lecture
DEREK GAGNE AND IVY WONG
Third Places
10:00 to 11:00 am EST
Panel Discussion
MARISA KUSHNER AND ROBERT LOPEZ
Your Path to Licensure
10:00 to 11:00 am EST
Lecture // LACES Credit Available
KARTIKA RACHMAWATI
Regenerative Ecological Urbanism on Compacted Grounds: Resilient Approach to Climate Change Mitigation in the American Southwest
10:00 to 11:00 am EST
Panel Discussion
LAURA SOLANO AND ADRIENNE HEFLICH
MVVA Double-Session, Part One: An Evolving Framework for Equity
10:30 to 11:00 am EST
Lecture // LACES Credit Available
SELINA MARTINEZ
Indigenous Placekeeping, Plurality, and Futurities
11:15 am to 12:15 pm EST
Lecture
DR. YEKANG KO
Landscape for Humanity: How Landscape Architects Tackle Homelessness
11:15 am to 12:15 pm EST
Co-Lecture // LACES Credit Available
SAHAR COSTON-HARDY AND
ALEXA BOSSE
Democratizing Design Through Photography and Visual Storytelling
11:15 am to 12:15 pm EST
Panel Discussion
SCOTT STREEB
MVVA Double-Session, Part Two: Gathering Place, A Park for Posterity
11:15 am to 12:15 pm EST
SUNDAY LUNCH HOUR
Presented by the LABash 2021 Social Committee!
Network with conference attendees and join our prize raffles!
12:15 to 1:15 pm EST
DIANA FERNANDEZ BIBEAU
Sunday Afternoon Keynote Presentation // LACES Credit Available
Heterogeneous Futures: Design Thinking Alternatives of Anthropologically and Ecologically Diverse Landscapes
1:15 to 2:45 pm EST
CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON SPATIAL PRACTICE
LABash 2021 x Landscape Architecture Podcast Collaboration
Featuring Khensani de Klerk (Matri-Archi(tecture)), Dr. Ghazal Jafari (UVA // OPSYS), and Ana María Durán Calisto (Estudio A0)
Moderated by Cornell University MLA Students Vanessa Dikuyama Zapata and Jihany Hassun, in collaboration with the Executive Producer of LAP Michael Todoron
3:00 to 4:45 pm EST
DR. DIANE JONES ALLEN AND DR. AUSTIN ALLEN
Closing Keynote Presentation // LACES Credit Available
Landscape: Recovering Sustainability and Resilience
5:00 to 6:30 pm EST
CLOSING CEREMONY
LABash 2021+2022 Executive Committees
Closing Remarks from LABash 2021 Executive Director Nicole Nomura, alongside Conference Co-Directors Jake Geitner and Dominic Malacaman
6:30 to 7:00 pm EST