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Concurrent Education Session

Design and the Creative Process

SAT-C02: Convening Research Platforms: Dissolving Boundaries in the Space Between Academia and Practice

Saturday, October 11, 2025
3:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT
1.25 PDH, LA CES/non-HSW

New modes of practice are necessary to address the widening gap between the scales of challenges that practitioners face and the capacity of conventional professional practice structures to address them. This panel discusses how leading firms support transformative research within built projects, within design firms, and through boundary-spanning professional and academic platforms.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Understand the benefits that acknowledging research might bring to landscape architectural practitioners.
  • Learn how firms are exploring the ground between practice and academia using various forms of research.
  • Comprehend what it could mean to cultivate emergent communities of practice that span firms and project types, and begin to question and probe the viability of shared research agendas.
  • Understand the challenges that practicing firms engaged in research are currently facing to implement their research agendas, including funding, time, staffing, and building partnerships.