On Saturday, April 9, the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) in association with ASLA and partners will host a summit featuring the all-star line-up of activists, designers, and scholars who will explore how to bridge the gap between policy ideas and on-the-ground reality.

A livestream option has been added for those interested but unable to attend in-person. The free broadcast is accessible from any device with an internet connection.

You can still purchase tickets to attend. In-person attendees gain access to the post-summit reception with drinks/hors d'oeuvres and can earn 4.5 PDH (LA CES/HSW) or 4.5 LU|HSW (AIA CES). Note that CEUs are not available for the livestream.

Don’t miss what is sure to be a defining conversation for the landscape architecture discipline!

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 of Federal Government Affairs at ASLA
• Billy Fleming, Weitzman School of Design McHarg Center
• Bryan Lee Jr., Colloquate
• Mia Lehrer, FASLA, Studio-MLA
• Kate Orff, FASLA, SCAPE, Columbia Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes
• Colette Pichon Battle, Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy
• Nikil Saval, Pennsylvania State Senate
• Mitchell J. Silver, FAICP, Hon. ASLA, McAdams
• Anne Whiston Spirn, FASLA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The summit builds from the Green New Deal Superstudio and is being presented in partnership with the National Building Museum as part of its Climate Action Weekend and Climate ABC (Action/Building/Community) program series.

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, and the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA).