The 2-day summit consists of keynote presentations, lightning talks, workshops, and panel discussions. An optional third day includes field sessions.
The summit brings together seasoned and emerging voices to demonstrate taking innovative ideas to action to shift paradigms and address climate change, biodiversity, and equity through initiatives big and small. A detailed schedule will be posted here once it is available.
All summit sessions take place at the Detroit Masonic Temple. Attendees can earn up to 14.75 LA CES (pending).
Thursday, June 4
The first day includes keynote presentations and a series of 10-minute lightning talks, curated to energize and inspire. In the evening, LAF will hold its 60th Anniversary Party (separate ticket required) at The Eastern Detroit.
The full schedule, inlcuding speaker bios, will be released soon. The lightning talks are:
- Unlike any Other Place: A Call for Regionally Specific Practice - Nina Chase
- Plants as Inventors - Catherine Seavitt
- PrideScapes: Documenting, Preserving & Uplifting Queer Landscapes - Max Dickson
- Including Animals: Co-creating with our more-than-human neighbors - Roxi Thoren
- Why levees won’t keep rising seas from flooding coastal cities - Kristina Hill
- Revealing care and neglect in legacy cities through AI - Jianxing Guan
- Landscape as Refuge: Care, Comfort or Exclusion? - Fiwasewa Ogundipe
- Influence, Economics, and the Necessity of Advocacy - Jonathon Geels
- From GenX to GenZ - An Appeal for Public Service - Matt Arnn
- ART as PREVIEW: installations for Hopeful Adaptation - Carolina Aragon
- Towards a Living Landscape - Aaron Hernandez - Marc Miller
- Cinematic Tools for Climate-Literate Landscapes - Evan Mather
- Landscape Architecture in the Rural Industrial Environment - Carl Rogers, Heidi Hohmann, Hans Klein-Hewett
- Designing a Mega-eco Project: An Example from Dakar, Senegal - Robert Levinthal
- Coastal Legacy: The Case for Graceful Retreat - Sarai Carter
- Design Isn't Neutral: AI Infrastructure and the Landscapes We Choose - Kendra Hyson
- A Call to Reflection: What if we practice as relatives? - Aiman Duckworth
- Inspiring the Next Generation of Federal Conservation and Recreation Grants - David Goldstein
- Sensorium: In Pursuit of Wonder through Embodied Design - Nate Cormier
- Reading the Low-Carbon Landscape - Jonah Susskind
- Little Things That Run The World: Designing Insect Biodiversity - Gena Wirth
- Equitable Outcomes in Detroit's Underserved Urban Landscapes - Charles Cross
- Designing Biocultural Futures: Cultivating Youth Storytelling and TEK in Landscape - Jade Rhodes
Friday, June 5
The second day consists of workshops and interactive sessions for attendees to learn skills and models for taking innovative ideas to action.
Saturday, June 6
This optional third day includes local field sessions to illustrate the ideas, innovation, and actions presented during the first two days.
Continuing Education Credits
The two-day summit is pending approval for 14.75 Professional Development Hour (PDH) through the Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System (LA CES). Attendees can earn 14.75 LA CES by attending the summit and both included workshop sessions (11.75 LA CES if not participating in either workshop session.)
Learning Objectives
- Identify more than 30 concepts, tactics, and models for landscape architects to take action to address climate change, biodiversity loss, rapid urbanization, and social inequity.
- Name examples of how landscape architects are demonstrating measurable environmental, social, cultural, and economic impacts to influence decision-making, policy, and investment.
- Examine leadership, collaboration, and advocacy strategies that expand the role of landscape architects in shaping interdisciplinary projects and initiatives and influencing systems-level change.
- Reflect on the past and future of the landscape architecture discipline including how values-driven practice can increase the broader impact of landscape architecture on health, safety, and welfare.
