LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE + CLIMATE ACTION in New England; A Virtual Summit

Date: 6/13/22 11:00 AM
Website: www.eventbrite.com/e/landscape-architecture-climate-action-in-new-england-a-virtual-summit-tickets-343642914207
Location: Virtual

Climate change is here. Our outdoor spaces, from backyards to schoolyards, parks to forests to watersheds, are being impacted, and have vital roles to play in mitigation and adaptation.

As a professional community of designers, planners, engineers, scientists, policymakers, advocates, academics, students -- landscape architects, and many, many more -- working in Massachusetts and Maine, New Hampshire and Rhode Island and Vermont and beyond, what are you seeing in your work now?

As we consider the New England landscape, where do we need to go?

Please join us for a virtual, regional summit to discuss climate ISSUES, current and projected, that cities and towns, rural and suburban areas are experiencing in the landscape, along with ACTIONS that are underway, and that need to grow.

SCHEDULE
11:00 am Hello & Welcome

PART ONE: ISSUES
11:15 am Keynotes

Speakers include Shaun O'Rourke, Chief Resilience Officer for the State of Rhode Island, and Managing Director, Program and Business Development, Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank.

Additional speakers to be announced.

11:45 am Q&A

11:50 am Breakout 1. Discuss and identify climate-related ISSUES that we face, as a community of practitioners who are working in the realm of landscape architecture and the design or stewardship of outdoor spaces at every scale in the Northeast. What do you see now that you didn’t ten years ago? What are you expecting in the next 10 years?

12:10pm Reconvene & Share Highlights

12:20 pm Break

PART TWO: ACTIONS
12:30 pm Climate Action Lighting Talks. 10 presenters each speak for 3 minutes about a project, policy, plan, or other work that they are doing that addresses climate resilience in the New England landscape.

(NOTE: Would you like be one of the Lightning Talks? Please respond to the Open Call here.)

1:00 pm Breakout 2. Discuss and identify opportunities for ACTION. What IS happening? What needs to happen? What’s getting in the way?

1:30 pm Reconvene & Share Highlights

1:50 pm Closing Comments & Next Steps

2:00 pm Adjourn

This summit is one piece of much larger, longer dialogue taking place locally, regionally, and nationally. We look ahead to ongoing collaboration and work together.

This summit is organized by the ASLA chapters of New England. These chapters include: ASLA Vermont, ASLA New Hampshire, ASLA Rhode Island, Boston Society of Landscape Architects

Contact: Boston Society of Landscape Architects
Email: gretchen@ bslanow.org