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February 2018 -- Conference + Xpo Preview
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Please join us!
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in collaboration with Victor Stanley
Monday, March 26, 2018
7:30am - 7pm 6
Hyatt Regency
Downtown Crossing, Boston
Landscape architects, landscape designers, architects, urban planners, and city-makers; students and professors, firm leaders and emerging professionals; those working in municipalities, in nonprofits, and in communities - any and all who are curious and passionate about parks, plazas, gardens, yards, streetscapes, and open space at all scales - please join the Boston Society of Landscape Architects on March 26 in downtown Boston.
This will again be an all-day event, with a lively mix of professional workshops and panel discussions around themes of design and planning, horticulture and technology, SITES, and the business of practice. Join thought leaders from landscape architecture practice and academia, architecture and planning, horticulture and engineering, municipal agencies and other industry experts for 16 different seminars.
From
Preparing for Sea Level Rise and Storm Surge; Climate Ready South Boston to
Stabilized Stonedust - Done Correctly, Gina Ford, FASLA, on public space to Dr. John Swallow on soils, the conference lineup celebrates the diversity of landscape thinking and practice. For more on
SPEAKERS and
SESSIONS, click here.
Austin Blackmon, City of Boston Chief of Environment, Energy, and Open Space, will give the luncheon keynote.
The Xpo also runs throughout the day, allowing in-depth, one-on-one conversations with vendors, suppliers, and others who help transform great ideas into great landscapes. Click here for a full list of
XPO EXHIBITORS.
The end-of-day
SOCIAL presents a fun means to relax with colleagues and friends and get inspired by emerging voices. The
NEXT GEN TALKS Take Two will feature a robust lineup of "lightening" three minute (!) presentations by emerging leaders in landscape architecture practice and academia as well as from public and nonprofit sectors. (If you're an emerging professional and would like to give one of the Next Gen lightening talks, email the
Chapter Office.)
New this year:
PRICING is offered in All Day (4 sessions + lunch + social), Half Day (2 sessions + lunch + social), Lunch Only, or Social Only tickets.
All ASLA members, regardless of chapter, receive member pricing. There is new, special pricing for students and government employees, too. Back again are group ticket discounts for three or more tickets from a single firm.
7:30am coffee and registration
8:30am session 1
10:00am morning break
10:30am session 2
12:00pm lunch with keynote
1:30pm session 3
3:00pm afternoon break
3:30pm session 4
5:00pm social featuring Next Gen Talks
The full SESSION SCHEDULE will be posted soon.
LA CES and AIA CEU credit is pending for all sessions.
The full day promises 6.0 credit hours, 1.5 hours per course, with 16 choices of courses to choose from.
Please be in touch with
Gretchen with any questions. Thank you!
A special THANK YOU to collaborating partner
Victor Stanley, featured sponsor
Belgard, and all of the table sponsors, event partners, and workshop hosts!
Back to 2018 BSLA Conference + Xpo HOME
Collaborating Partner Victor Stanley
Featured Sponsor Belgard
Table Sponsors
Workshop Sponsors
Event Partners
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Other News + Opportunities
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The Grow Native Massachusetts "Evenings with Experts" series continues Wednesday, March 7, 2018 with "Lessons Learned when Field Botany Meets Design" by Uli Lorimer, Curator of the Native Flora Garden at Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
Mark your calendars for Wednesday, April 4, 2018 when Matthew Cunningham, ASLA, discusses "Revealing a Sense of Place." This event is proudly co-sponsored by BSLA. All Grow Native MA Evenings with Experts are free and open to the public and take place at the Cambridge Public Library. Click here for info on both events.
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"Nature for Water: Exploring Water Challenges in Our Commonwealth" -- The 6th Annual Massachusetts Water Forum and Youth Summit takes place Thursday, March 22, 2018, hosted by the Foundation for a Green Future, Inc. and sponsored by Senator Marc Pacheco in honor of the United Nation's World Water Day. Free; registration required. Click here for info.
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Friends of Fairsted Spring 2018 Lecture
takes place on Tuesday, April 3, 2018: "What is a Park For? Olmsted, Obama, and the Meanings of Urban Landscape" with Carlo Rotella, Director of the American Studies Program, Boston College. Registration required. Click here for info.
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Thank You BSLA Partner Sponsors
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