On April 9, the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) in association with ASLA and partners will host a summit featuring a range of influential leaders working on issues of climate and equity.

Grounding the Green New Deal: A Summit on Design, Policy, and Advocacy
April 9, 12-5pm*
National Building Museum,
401 F St NW, Washington, DC
*Doors open at 11 for pre-event exhibit and networking. There will be a post-summit reception until 7pm.
More info and tickets: www.lafoundation.org/GNDsummit

Addressing the climate crisis will require an unprecedented scale, scope, and pace of physical landscape transformation. There is an essential role for the built environment disciplines to play in reimagining this future and translating the goals of decarbonization, jobs, and justice into on-the-ground practices and built works. Through panel discussions, this summit examines the intersection of policy, design, and advocacy to identify ways to accelerate individual and collective actions to effect change.

Speakers and panelists include:

• Roxanne Blackwell, Hon. ASLA, Director, Federal Government Affairs at ASLA
• Dana Bourland, The JPB Foundation
• Kevin Bush, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
• Billy Fleming, ASLA, Weitzman School of Design McHarg Center
• Bryan Lee Jr., Colloquate
• Kate Orff, FASLA, Columbia Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes
• Colette Pichon Battle, Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy
• Nikil Saval, Pennsylvania State Senate
• Anne Whiston Spirn, FASLA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The summit builds from the Green New Deal Superstudio, a year-long open call that attracted the participation of more than 3,000 students and practitioners in the built environment disciplines. Some 670 design and planning projects were submitted to give form to the goals of the movement-led vision, and a select set will be on display during the event.

The summit is being presented in partnership with the National Building Museum as part of its Climate Action Weekend and Climate ABC Action/Building/Community (ABC) program series. The Museum is presenting a family and community event the following day on April 10, Planet Curious - A World of Climate Curiosity, which is open to the public, free of charge

The Grounding the Green New Deal Summit and Superstudio are an initiative of the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) in association with the Weitzman School of Design McHarg Center, the Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes, the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), and the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA).