When: | March 29, 2012 7:00am to 6:30pm |
Location: | Lynnwood Convention Center |
Registration: | Online Download & print (PDF) |
WASLA welcomes the landscape architects, the public, allied professions and vendors to attend our 2012 Conference, Changing Convention. This year, we examine the way projects are conceived, designed and constructed; how we are shaping the dynamic with clients and allied professionals; and how the conversation is different now than it was a decade ago. We have something in our lineup for everyone this year, including: three tracks of continuing education sessions worth up to eight professional development hours for a full day of attendance, discounted L.A.R.E. review, lots of interdisciplinary panels, more vendors than we have ever had before, good food and a social hour with hors d'oeuvres and a no-host bar. Join us for this lively debate and a day of good fun.
Sponsors
Conference Sponsor
Keynote Lunch Sponsors Pacific Earth Works The Watershed Company SvR Design Company GGLO | Reception Sponsor Abbotsford Concrete Products Continental Breakfast Sponsor Allplay Systems Afternoon Break Sponsor AHBL |
Exhibitors
| Cascade Recreation | Biological Mediation Systems, LLC |
| Play-Creation | Landscape Forms |
| Highwire | Sitelines Park and Playground Products, Inc. |
| Vortex Aquatic Structures | Cedar Grove Composting |
| Public Restroom Company | Cold Spring Granite Company |
| Buell Recreation | FieldTurf |
| CONTECH Construction Products, Inc. / Keystone Retaining Wall Systems, Inc. |
Educational Sessions
2030: Professional Practice may not be What We ThinkBring Back the Beach: Removing Barriers While Improving Habitat
Habitat-Complete Landscape Streets: How to design urban roads for wildlife and multimodal users in the PNW
Drip, Rain, and Integrated Practices: Elements of the Ultimate Sustainable Irrigation System Design
Case Study: Large Scale Rainwater Harvesting to Eliminate Potable Water Use in the Landscape on an Urban Campus
Beautiful… Sustainable Plants for Washington
Blurring the Lines: Rethinking Private Development, Public Right-of-Way, and Parks
Transforming the Campus Landscape: Establishing a New Standard for Universities
Case Study - The University of Washington Montlake Triangle: Landscape Architects Leading Large Scale, Complex, Site Development Projects
Change through Activism, Art, Community, Environment: Tales of Alternative Practice and Ecological Design
Connecting Communities with their Past, into the Future: The Roslyn Urban Forest as a Case Study
PRODUCTIVE NEIGHBORHOODS: A Case Study Based Exploration of Seattle Urban Agriculture Projects
Changing Conventions in Transportation Planning and Design
Successfully Navigating the Design-Build Approach in Large-Scale Public Transportation Projects
Curbless in Seattle: Defining a New Public Realm Typology at Bell Street Park
Collaboration: A Model of Integrated Design Delivering Sustainable Places for People in the 21st Century
Yesler Terrace Development: An Outdoor Stage for Daily Life
Providing Parks for Healthy Populations
Overview of LARE Test Changes Beginning in September 2012
LARE Prep - Section E (Grading & Drainage) / Section 4 (PREREGISTRATION REQUIRED)
LARE Prep - Section C (Site Design) / Section 3 (PREREGISTRATION REQUIRED)
Luncheon Keynote
2030: Professional Practice may not be What We Think
Commonalities underlying five emerging and converging global trends will contribute to dramatic changes in the focus of landscape architectural practice over the next twenty years. The commonalities regarding the five trends -- climate change, energy and water scarcity, the deterioration of the public's health (obesity and its co-morbidities), and the aging of society – provide not only direction for the future of the profession but a basis the gives direction and content to the needed changes.
While the news surrounding each of the trends is enough to depress the most positive among us, there are positive opportunities embedded in each trend. First, and foremost, the character and content of the built environment is a common denominator underlying the different ways urban, suburban, and rural communities can prepare for and respond to the influences of each trend. Second, the fact that each trend is a first-time ever event opens the door for the formation of unique, collaborative design and planning work groups. And third, in that each trend is a first-time event, they both collectively and individually preclude a business-as-usual approach to dealing with them. Taken together, the three opportunities are explored in this talk as a key to identifying the form, character, and content of a likely future landscape architectural profession as a rallying point for changes in education, practice, and policy development.
Bob Scarfo, Ph.D., Principal, Aging in Place Design LLC
Bob, a registered landscape architect in Washington and Massachusetts, practices under the name of Aging in Place Designs, LLC in Spokane, Washington. He cofounded Land Ethics in Washington, D.C. in 1988 and has practiced in Canada and the United States. Bob co-edited and co-authored Re-creating Neighborhoods for Successful Aging, published in 2009. His article "Building a More Sustainable Future for Senior Living," appeared in the June 2011 issue of Educational Gerontology. For more than a decade, his work with neighborhoods and communities has employed a collaborative approach based upon the commonalities underlying emerging global trends. He is currently an associate professor at Washington State University's Department of Landscape Architecture and has taught at WSU Spokane's Interdisciplinary Design Institute since 1994. He received his BLA and MLA from the University of Massachusetts and his Ph.D. in Social Geography from Clark University.
