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  • Friday, October 10, 2025
  • 7:00 AM – 3:00 PM CT
    Exploring the Atchafalaya Basin: History, Conservation, and Restoration
  • 7:15 AM – 5:00 PM CT
    Between Source and Sink: Tracing Carbon Across Coastal Louisiana
  • 7:15 AM – 5:00 PM CT
    Louisiana's Coastal Program: Following the Steps from Model to Field
  • 7:30 AM – 4:45 PM CT
    Photographing in NOLA: Imaging beyond the limits of architecture and landscape photography
  • 7:45 AM – 5:00 PM CT
    Working Landscapes: The Living Coast of Terrebonne Parish
  • 8:15 AM – 1:00 PM CT
    Garden Design in New Orleans does not have to be a Secret?
  • 8:15 AM – 4:30 PM CT
    Community-led Climate Action: Experimental Planting Projects in New Orleans’s Central Wetlands
  • 8:15 AM – 4:30 PM CT
    Water as Conduit of Violence: How the Mississippi River Shaped Cancer Alley
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Bees, Butterflies, Beetles – oh my! Science-backed framework for urban pollinator conservation
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Beyond the Sample Closet: Strategies for Smarter Materials Management
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Building a bigger table: Participatory, low-tech design strategies for designing healthy agroecosystems
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Embracing Change: Transitioning from an Established Firm to Launch a Small Practice
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Finance. Market. Entitlements. Placemaking: Essential and knowledgeable ingredients of the development process
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    From Lab to Landscape: Opportunities for Scaling Biochar in Landscape Practice
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Living in a Reclaimed Material World: Benefits, Friction and Landscape Project Precedents
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Play it Cool: Designing the Future of Play in a Warming World
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Public Housing as Place: Landscape Architecture's Role in Urban Housing Renewal
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    The Available Landscape: Designing Beyond the Normative Cityscape Toward an Inclusive Future.
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Unlocking Potential: Activating Vacant Parkland for Inclusive Communities
  • 8:30 AM – 11:00 AM CT
    Decarbonization in Practice: Tools, Materials, and Industry Collaboration
  • 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM CT
    SOULFUL SKETCHING where Jazz was Born
  • 9:15 AM – 5:00 PM CT
    Living With Water®: History and Future of Resilience in New Orleans
  • 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Answering the Call to Action: Transforming practice for co-creation
  • 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Coastal Hazard Overlay District Guide: Creating More Resilient Communities
  • 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Cultivating Joy in Landscape Architecture
  • 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Designing Biodiversity through Landscape Interactions: Applied Science at Varied Scales
  • 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Designing with Purpose: Three unique perspectives on achieving functional beauty for residences.
  • 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Envision Platinum: Circular and Sustainable Approaches at the Battery
  • 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Feral: Making Wild Landscapes
  • 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Go the Distance: Envisioning, Implementing and Curating Great Linear Landscapes
  • 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Landscape Architects in the Expanded Field: Lessons from Working with Infrastructure
  • 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Planning, Measurement, and Implementation: Climate Action in a Historic Urban Park
  • 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Speak Up & Sound Smart: Effective Communication Strategies for Landscape Architects
  • 12:15 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Mandeville Parks: From Regional Plans to Local Projects
  • 12:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Beyond the Swamp: Paddling Manchac’s Ecology, History, and Culture
  • 12:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Last Trees Standing: Walking amidst ancient oaks, developing trajectories towards regenerative futures.
  • 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    LARE Prep: Grading, Drainage, and Stormwater Management
  • 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM CT
    20 Years Later: Spatial, Economic and Civic Lessons Learned since Katrina
  • 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM CT
    Beyond Off-the-Shelf: Material innovations that create value and place
  • 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM CT
    Beyond Water Conservation – A Holistic Approach to Designing “Great Places”
  • 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM CT
    Building Capacity With Frontline Communities: Resilience Hubs for All
  • 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM CT
    From Setback to Comeback: Reviving an Urban Icon
  • 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM CT
    How Urban Parks can Transform Cities and Connect People with Cultural History
  • 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM CT
    Nature at the Water’s Edge: Designing Resilient and Biodiverse Urban Waterfronts
  • 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM CT
    Niche to Newsworthy: Amplifying Landscape Architecture’s Reach
  • 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM CT
    The Vocabulary of Roberto Burle Marx Revisited
  • 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM CT
    Unhoused, Unseen: the (in)visibility of homelessness in ‘public’ space
  • 2:30 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Managing It ALL: Exploring the Role of Project Manager
  • 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Beyond Planting Plans: Seeing, Communicating, and Constructing with Plants
  • 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Bridging Boundaries: Adapting for Climate through Collaborative Design
  • 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Disrupting the System: LA’s Waterways as Community Catalyst
  • 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Hurricane Resilience on the Gulf Coast: Two Parks Meeting the Challenge
  • 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Listening to the Land: Integrating Indigenous Perspectives for Restoration and Healing
  • 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Not Your Garden-variety Landscape Architects: Leading Non-traditional Careers
  • 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Rethinking Participation and Power: Expanding the Potential of Design for Everyone
  • 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Rewilding New York City – History, Design & Ecology
  • 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Tapping into Ecological Memory: A Key to Resilient Design
  • 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    To DBE or not to DBE: Leveraging Diversity as a Strategic Advantage
  • Saturday, October 11, 2025
  • 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM CT
    ADA Construction Issues - designed right, built wrong!
  • 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM CT
    Bridging Climate Divides: Integrating Research, Teaching, and Practice
  • 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM CT
    Ecological Citizens: Bottom-Up Climate Leadership in Southeast Louisiana
  • 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM CT
    Inner-City Revival: Building Community Through Placemaking and Urban Recreation
  • 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM CT
    Islas y Canales Verdes: Land Conservation + Inter-Cultural Design in South America
  • 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM CT
    Magical Mistakes: Embracing Unexpected Moments of Joy in the Urban Landscape
  • 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM CT
    MAKING SPACE FOR CULTURE: Strategies for Supporting Cultural Programming in Public Landscapes
  • 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM CT
    Measuring What Matters: The Social Value and Economic Benefits of Public Interventions
  • 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM CT
    THE FOUND-HERS: Professional Perspectives at Three Stages of Practice
  • 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM CT
    Vision Becoming Reality - RiverVision and the Re-Development of the Davenport Riverfront
  • 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM CT
    Build Me a River: Leading Urban Revitalization with Flood Resilient Park Design
  • 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM CT
    Ethical Decarbonization: eliminating forced labor in timber, stone, and rubber supply chains
  • 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM CT
    Fostering (not Fighting) Change: Innovative approaches to preservation practice
  • 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM CT
    From Pavement to Pollinators: Building Biodiverse Urban Habitats
  • 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM CT
    Inside the LA Studio -- Phyto Studio
  • 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM CT
    Rebuilding Los Angeles: Implementation of Fire-Resistant Materials and Building Strategies
  • 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM CT
    Steadying Winds of Change in Urban Parks: Leadership Lessons from Volatile Times
  • 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM CT
    Symbolic Streets: Catalysts for Urban Resilience, Economic Recovery and Civic Transformation
  • 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM CT
    Transcending Limits: Crafting High-Impact Landscapes Within Any Framework
  • 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM CT
    Understanding the Financial Benefits of Firm Ownership (and How to Get There)
  • 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM CT
    Weaving Relations: Co-Creation for Change Through Healing of Land, People and Culture
  • 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    UrbanPlan Lightning Round Simulation: Exploring Market and Nonmarket Forces Shaping Urban Development Today
  • 2:30 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Place-based Technical Assistance Strategies to Advance Climate-Resilient Solutions
  • 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Advocacy Through Design: Leveraging Existing Design Strategies Through a More Inclusive Lens
  • 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Convening Research Platforms: dissolving boundaries in the space between Academia and Practice
  • 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Ecological Approach to Enhancing Biodiversity in a Tree City of the World
  • 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Equity-Washing? Let's have a real conversation about Equity in the profession
  • 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Fighting for Our Future: The Case for Landscape-Lead Infrastructure
  • 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Greening While Growing: Retooling POPS to Improve Open Space Access & Equity
  • 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Inside the LA Studio -- Spackman Mossop Michaels
  • 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    REVEALING PLACE: Context, Cultural History, and Ecological Memory in Landscape Architecture
  • 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Shading in: research, engagement, and design to add shade in under-resourced communities
  • 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    The Central Wetland Restoration Collective: Reconnecting Communities to Environment and Culture
  • 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    When Specs Meet Reality: Partnering with Nursery Growers for Successful Planting Design
  • Sunday, October 12, 2025
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Biodiversity-Positive Transformations of Blighted Urban Landscapes
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Building Trust and Trails Throughout Detroit
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Healthy Team, Healthy Site: People-First Approach to Integrated Project Delivery
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Innovative community engagement: Digital and map-based techniques
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Living Landscapes: Managing Design Legacies Through Time and Change
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    No Bad Questions: How Three Practices Shape Cultures of Learning
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Staying in the Loop: Balancing Automation and Identity in the AI-LA Era
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    The Bridge, North Claiborne Avenue, and Treme
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Trees of the Future City: Selecting Urban Tree Species for Climate Adaptation
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Witches and Wizards of the Landscape
  • 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM CT
    Academia + Practice = Knowledge: A Research Collaboration Primer
  • 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM CT
    Crownsville Hospital Memorial Park: Reconnecting History and Community through Design
  • 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM CT
    Future Trees: Strategies for Designing and Managing Canopies for Institutional Landscapes
  • 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM CT
    Highways Reimagined: Reconnecting Communities & Repairing the Past
  • 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM CT
    Inside the LA Studio -- Dana Brown & Associates
  • 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM CT
    Mayoral Innovation: Rethinking Landscape Architecture in Local Government
  • 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM CT
    Parkonomics: Exploring the Economics of Our Shared Public Open Spaces
  • 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM CT
    The Home Landscape Lab: Unlocking Small Business Opportunities for a Bio-Diverse Future
  • 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM CT
    The Story of Site as Organism: Poetic Perspectives of Dynamic Landscapes
  • 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM CT
    Uncharted Paths: Women of Color are Redefining Landscape Architecture Through Micro Practices
  • 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM CT
    When the Shoreline Can't Hold: Rethinking Resilience at the Water’s Edge
  • 2:30 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    New Realm of Possibility: Advocating for Landscape Architecture in the New Normal
  • 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    An Underutilized Concrete Application: Shotcrete
  • 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Biodiversity: Strategies for Landscape Architects
  • 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Dismantling Disaster: Working with Communities Before the Storm
  • 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Emergent AI in Professional Practice
  • 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Ensuring a Complete and Resilient Vision: Developing a Growing Relationship with Nurseries
  • 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    How Do We Stay Here?: The Charleston Comprehensive Integrated Water Plan
  • 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Interviewing the Interviewer: How Students and Employers Evaluate Each Other
  • 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Lines in the Sand : Regional Trails as Climate Adaptation Infrastructure
  • 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Threading Coastal Resilience in a Dense Urban Environment: Competition to Construction
  • 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Ways of Seeing, Ways of Being: Reconsidering Expertise Across Knowledge Systems
  • 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Where do you Draw the Line?
  • Monday, October 13, 2025
  • 7:00 AM – 2:00 PM CT
    Land, Water, & Art: Making NOMA’s Sculpture Garden within Historic City Park
  • 7:30 AM – 2:00 PM CT
    Crosby Arboretum: A Regenerative Landscape
  • 7:45 AM – 11:00 AM CT
    Bike Tour of New Orleans: Low Stress Bikeways to Bike Easy
  • 7:45 AM – 12:30 PM CT
    Regional Planning, Local Adaptation: Climate Action in the City of Gretna
  • 8:15 AM – 2:00 PM CT
    Louisiana Children’s Museum: A Joyous and Resilient Landscape in City Park
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Community Centered Design and Planning: Insights from Boston’s Urban Design Initiatives
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Flipping the Paradigm: Transforming a Neglected, Contested Landscape into a Social-Ecological Amenity
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    From Seed to Design: Enhancing Urban Biodiversity Through Local Networks
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Lessons Learned: Cultural Landscapes that Honor African American Heritage and Legacy
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Mastering Plant Procurement: Bridging Gaps from Design to Delivery
  • 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT
    Shaping the Future of Landscape Architecture
  • 8:30 AM – 11:00 AM CT
    Nature as Client: Co-Creating with More-Than Human Species
  • 8:45 AM – 12:30 PM CT
    Sankofa Wetland Park and Nature Trail: Ecological Restoration and Community Resilience
  • 8:45 AM – 1:30 PM CT
    Living & Working with Water: Green Infrastructure and Workforce Development on LafitteGreenway
  • 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM CT
    Into the Streets--Queer and Antiracist Histories in New Orleans' French Quarter
  • 9:15 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Longue Vue House and Gardens: Exploring the Legacy of Ellen Biddle Shipman
  • 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Beyond Last Century’s Tools: Innovation in Firm and Project Management
  • 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Experiment, Play, Innovate: Fostering Curiosity in Firm Culture
  • 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Heat, Flood, Fire, Drought: Integrated Regional Landscape Resiliency Strategy for Los Angeles
  • 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Landscape climate adaptation planning for a resilient and iconic campus
  • 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Scaling Beyond Boundaries: Strategies for Growing, Sustaining a Small Landscape Architecture Firm
  • 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Shape the Future - One Schoolyard at a Time