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Concurrent Education Session

Design and the Creative Process

SAT-B09: Transcending Limits: Crafting High-Impact Landscapes Within Any Framework

Saturday, October 11, 2025
2:00 PM – 3:15 PM CT
1.25 PDH, LA CES/HSW

Ambitious, big-budget projects often capture attention, yet their impact doesn’t always translate across scales. This session features three leading practitioners demonstrating how nimble, resource-conscious projects can drive design excellence, environmental sustainability, and regional appropriateness. These adaptable projects create opportunities for experimentation, influencing broader practice and shaping more resilient, innovative solutions.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Discover innovative design strategies that respond to site-specific conditions, form-giving principles, material selection, and construction detailing to create high-impact projects, even within constraints of limited scope, budget, or resources.
  • Explore how landscape projects in three climate-prone regions address sustainability challenges through environmentally responsible design, demonstrating adaptive solutions for resilience, resource efficiency, and long-term ecological impact.
  • Investigate graphic and verbal communication techniques from innovative design projects that effectively influence other market sectors, educate clients, and foster a deeper understanding of environmental responsibility in decision-making.
  • Understand how designers make strategic, value-driven choices to uphold their design vision while adapting processes to constraints of time and fees, ensuring meaningful, high-quality outcomes despite project limitations.