SUN-A11: Witches and Wizards of the Landscape

Sunday, October 12, 2025

8:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT

1.25 PDH, LA CES/non-HSW

Speaker(s)

Megan Bradley, ASLA (she/her/hers)

Lead Action Sports Park Designer and Bike Park Project Manager
American Ramp Company
Lake Arrowhead, California
MaFe Gonzalez, Assoc. ASLA

Botanist and landscape designer
BASE Landscape Architecture
San Francisco, California
Chip Sullivan, FASLA (he/him/his)

Professor
UC Berkeley
Berkeley, California

Landscape architecture is witchcraft. We conjure the landscape through visioning in concept design, transform reality with symbology through construction documents, and cast spells through design narratives. Sensing the spirit of the place, stepping into our intuition, and feeding our creativity are essential ingredients to the cauldron of the design process.

Learning Outcomes:

Learn tools to get reinspired, activate your intuition, and apply it to your practice.
Recognize and cultivate creative freedom by appreciating the unique qualities of a site and your own creative potential.
Conjure the landscape through the lens of landscape architecture as witchcraft.
Shift perspectives to simultaneously see the whole and the part, staying grounded in the vision.