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General Sessions
ASLA/IFLA Opening
General
Session
Saturday, October 7
8:30am–10:00am
Jean-Michel Cousteau
Explorer, environmentalist, educator, and film
producer—for more than four decades,
Jean-Michel Cousteau has used his vast experiences to communicate
to people of all nations and generations his love and concern
for our water planet.
Among his projects are artificial floating islands,
schools, and the headquarters of an advanced marine studies
center. He has also been involved with the Jean-Michel Cousteau
Fiji Islands Resort, which is designed to demonstrate environmentally
responsible and culturally appropriate
ocean-oriented ideals.
In 1999, Cousteau founded the Ocean Futures
Society, a nonprofit marine conservation
and education organization that serves as a “voice for
the ocean” by fostering a conservation ethic, conducting
research, and developing marine education programs in a variety
of media. As president of the society, he travels the globe,
meeting with world leaders and policymakers,
educating young people, documenting stories of change and
hope, and lending his
reputation and support to help energize alliances for positive
change.
IFLA 43rd World
Congress
Plenary Session
All registered attendees invited
Saturday, October 7
2:15pm–3:45pm
Kongjian Yu PhD, International ASLA
Dr. Yu is founder and dean of the Graduate School
of Landscape Architecture at Peking
University and the founder and president of Turenscape, an
internationally awarded
firm that is one of the earliest and largest private landscape
architecture firms in
China. Through his and his colleagues’ efforts, the
Chinese government officially
recognized landscape architecture as a new profession in 2004.
In recent years, he has won ASLA Honor Awards
for his projects Zhongshan
Shipyard Park, Shenyang Architectural School Campus, and Urban
Development
Pattern of Taizhou.
Among other honors, he received the National
Gold Medal of Fine Arts in 2004
from the Cultural Ministry of China, and was twice winner
of the Human Habitat Model
Award for design from the Construction Ministry of China.
In 2004, he received the
Overseas Chinese Pioneer Achievement Medal from the Chinese
central government
for his overall contributions to the nation.
ASLA/IFLA General
Session
Sunday, October 8
8:30am–9:30am
Catherine Mosbach, International ASLA
Sunday’s General Session keynote speaker
will be Catherine Mosbach, International
ASLA, a prominent landscape architect from Paris who has a
pan-European reputation.
She was the founder and editor of Pages Paysages
and has won various competitions and prizes. Among her principal
built works are the archeological park of Solutré,
the Floral Canal Promenade at St-Denis, and the right bank
at Bourdeaux. She currently has her own practice in Paris,
where she speaks out against the "smoothing over of public
space," pleading for the connection between person and
location with the help of contemporary landscape techniques.
Her interpretations go far beyond the visual, stemming from
a phenomenological view of the landscape. Her recent projects
are characterized by temporal issues and their appropriate
language and by the co-production of the urban landscape with
its protagonists.
ASLA/IFLA Closing
General Session
Monday, October 9
4:00pm–5:30pm
Mayor Richard M. Daley, Honorary ASLA
Recipient of the 2006 Olmsted Medal
(invited)
Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley has earned a
national reputation for his innovative,
community-based programs to address education, public safety,
neighborhood
development, and other challenges facing American cities.
Mayor Daley’s focus on quality-of-life
concerns has led to greater emphasis on the
delivery of basic services, from removing graffiti and deteriorating
buildings to creating
more green space and a citywide recycling plan. Since he became
mayor, the City
has planted more than 400,000 trees, created 100 school campus
parks, built 68 miles
of landscaped street medians and spurred the construction
of rooftop gardens on
major buildings, including City Hall. Mayor Daley is a great
friend of the landscape
architecture profession, instituting a landscape ordinance
that is being studied by
other mayors across the country.
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