Stormwater, Identity, and Social Purpose: Working with Stormwater to Create Place
2:45 - 3:45 pm
Location: Lynnwood Convention Center - Room 2BC
Speaker: David A. Rubin, ASLA, FAAR
Description:
Stormwater management is no longer an onerous agency-driven requirement for development, but is becoming an asset-driving, integrated design element that can be a positive factor in socially-purposeful landscapes and identity. In this session, three case studies are presented that utilize stormwater management as an inclusive and integrated design element: Washington Canal Park, Potomac Park Levee – both in Washington, D.C. – and Westfield’s Grand Junction Plaza in Indiana. Embracing the challenges and prospects of significant flooding, all three projects demonstrate that the embrace of challenging stormwater conditions can be lead to extraordinary, socially-purposeful landscapes. HSW-Yes
Learning Objectives:
- Explore creative and integrative stormwater strategies as elements of design.
- Appreciate the varied approaches and collaborative processes between landscape architects and agencies that comply with regulations while fostering social engagement.
- Learn about trends in stormwater management that may inform the design of public spaces, facilitating landscapes that encourage human interaction.
- Understand by example of built work how strategies for stormwater management can reinforce identity and foster pedagogy.
Speaker Bio:
David A. Rubin, ASLA, FAAR
Principal, LAND COLLECTIVE
David A. Rubin is the founding principal of LAND COLLECTIVE, a landscape architecture and urban design studio committed to practicing with an emphasis on socially-purposeful design strategies. David is the 2011-12 recipient of the Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture from the American Academy in Rome. His projects have received awards and honors from the American Institute of Architects and the American Society of Landscape Architects, among others.
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