FRI-B01: Answering the Call to Action: Transforming Practice for Co-creation

Friday, October 10, 2025

10:15 AM – 11:30 AM CT

1.25 PDH, LA CES/non-HSW

Speaker(s)

Kirsten B. Bauer, International ASLA (she/her/hers)

Global Design Ditrector
ASPECT Studios
Melbourne, Victoria
Grant Fahlgren (he/him/his)

Co-chair Reconciliation Advisory Committee / Indigenous Design Lead
Canadian Society of Landscape Architects / PFS Studio
Toronto, Ontario
Kelty M. McKinnon, ASLA (she/her/hers)

Partner and Director of Design
PFS Studio
Vancouver, British Columbia

In 2024, ASLA announced a Call to Action for practitioners to “learn from and integrate Indigenous perspectives and practices.” Three firms from the United States, Canada, and Australia will share their years of experience co-creating with Indigenous communities to support ASLA members putting this call into practice.

Learning Outcomes:

Understand the Call to Action and its implication for policy, practice, and design methodologies in Canada, Australia, and the United States.
Learn ways that practices can include Indigenous perspectives in their organizations, provide mentorship, and build collective capacity
Learn how Indigenous empowerment within institutions can support the evolution of professional organizations, practices, and projects.
Learn ways a practitioner can co-create with Indigenous peoples in practice supported by policy and organizational change.