FRI-FS-02: Beyond the Quad: The Pursuit of the Climate-adapted Campus

Field Session Leader(s)

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  Julia L. Prince, ASLA, PLA (she/her/hers)

  Associate Landscape Architect
  Design Workshop
  Los Angeles, California
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  Xiaojian Fan, ASLA, LEED Green Associate (she/her/hers)

  Associate
  Design Workshop
  Los Angeles, California

Field Session Presenter(s)

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  Dawn Dyer, ASLA, PLA, LEED AP

  Principal
  Studio-MLA
  Los Angeles, CA
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  Nurit Katz (she/her/hers)

  Chief Sustainability Officer
  UCLA
  Encino, California
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  Stephanie V. Landregan, FASLA (she/her/hers)

  Director
  Altadena Green
  Glendale, California
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  Hannah Michael Flynn, ASLA

  Designer
  Stillwater Sciences
  Los Angeles, CA

UCLA Campus/ Design Workshop

What if a university campus could simultaneously serve as civic infrastructure, a biodiversity refuge, and a cultural commons? Discover how an inclusive design process is helping a historic urban campus adapt to climate realities while strengthening identity, community well-being, and ecosystem health—becoming a living laboratory and a model for measurable landscape performance.

Includes transportation. Extensive walking.

Accessibility:This session includes approximately almost two hours of walking on paved surfaces, and some stairs may be encountered along the route.

Learning Outcomes:

• Analyze how stakeholder engagement and deep interdisciplinary collaboration shaped guiding principles and implementation strategies that deliver measurable environmental, cultural, economic, and social impact at the campus scale.
• Examine how campuses can serve as climate-responsive living laboratories for municipal initiatives and applied university research, including historic ecology and ecosystem sectioning, to advance habitat resilience.
• Discuss a framework that replaces water inefficient landscapes with regionally appropriate plant communities that conserve resources, compliment historic architecture, reinforce an inclusive sense of place, and unify fragmented environments.
• Evaluate how green infrastructure and a campus-wide hydrology framework can restore historic drainage patterns while advancing environmental performance, equity and education as integrated design drivers.