BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Southern California ASLA - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://socal-asla.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Southern California ASLA REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20150308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20151101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20160313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20161106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20270314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20271107T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260226T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260226T130000 DTSTAMP:20260406T035727 CREATED:20260212T193237Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260212T193330Z UID:14023-1772107200-1772110800@socal-asla.org SUMMARY:Life In The Time of Ice: Be Prepared (A Webinar Series) DESCRIPTION:Life In The Time of Ice: Be Prepared\nFebruary 26 – 1st of 4 Webinars \nIn to the recent increase in immigration enforcement activities\, the Illinois\, New York Upstate and Northern CA ASLA chapters in partnership with El Merequetenque (the network of Latin American landscape architects and designers)\, Terremoto Topophyla Landscape Architecture\, and CROW landscapes\, are planning a series of webinars. | Learn More Here URL:https://socal-asla.org/event/life-in-the-time-of-ice-be-prepared-a-webinar-series/ LOCATION:Virtual CATEGORIES:Cal Poly Pomona Events,Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Events,Emerging Pros Events,UCLA Events,USC Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260226T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260226T130000 DTSTAMP:20260406T035727 CREATED:20260129T225256Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260129T225520Z UID:13983-1772107200-1772110800@socal-asla.org SUMMARY:Career Pathways Spotlight: Melanie Buffa\, ASLA DESCRIPTION:Melanie Buffa will share insights from her career journey and her role as President of the Southern California ASLA Chapter\, reflecting on how leadership\, service\, and advocacy have shaped her path. \nIn this Lunch & Learn\, Melanie will talk about navigating career shifts\, stepping into leadership before feeling “fully ready\,” and how getting involved beyond your day-to-day role can open unexpected opportunities. Attendees will leave with practical perspective on building confidence\, expanding influence\, and finding alignment between values and professional impact. \nRegister to Access Zoom Details URL:https://socal-asla.org/event/career-pathways-spotlight-melanie-buffa-asla/ CATEGORIES:Cal Poly Pomona Events,Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Events,Emerging Pros Events,UCLA Events,USC Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250428T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250428T143000 DTSTAMP:20260406T035727 CREATED:20250415T215310Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250415T215310Z UID:12363-1745845200-1745850600@socal-asla.org SUMMARY:USC School of Architecture Presents: Kotchakorn Voraakhom DESCRIPTION:Kotchakorn Voraakhom is a pioneering Thai landscape architect renowned for her expertise in designing public spaces that address the climate crisis in dense urban environments. She led the creation of Bangkok’s first critical green infrastructure project\, Chulalongkorn Centenary Park (top left)\, and has since brought her vision to life through several groundbreaking works\, including the Thammasat Urban Farm Rooftop\, Asia’s largest urban farming green roof (bottom left) and the Chao Phraya \nSky Park\, the world’s first bridge park spanning a river in a capital city. Learn More Here \n  \nMore info and registration details here URL:https://socal-asla.org/event/usc-school-of-architecture-presents-kotchakorn-voraakhom/ LOCATION:USC School of Architecture\, Verle Annis Gallery CATEGORIES:USC Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250418T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250418T130000 DTSTAMP:20260406T035727 CREATED:20250415T212624Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250415T215349Z UID:12354-1744977600-1744981200@socal-asla.org SUMMARY:Designing for Resilience With Shalini Vajjhala DESCRIPTION:Climate resilience is often narrowly framed around avoiding the worst harms of climate change. In this talk\, Shalini will offer a broader perspective on how designing for resilience can help expand our ambitions for our public infrastructure systems — creating beautiful spaces that generate multiple social\, economic\, and ecosystem benefits and protect against that ‘once in a thousand years’ event. She will highlight examples of projects from across the US and show how public infrastructure design\, planning\, and funding processes can be adapted to serve communities’ deepest needs. She will also share how her early architecture training has shaped and carried through her career in public policy\, project finance\, and community engagement. \nAbout Shalini Vajjhala \nShalini Vajjhala\, PhD is the Executive Director of PRE Collective and a nationally recognized infrastructure and climate resilience expert with 20 years of experience designing\, funding\, and financing community-centered resilient infrastructure solutions. Over the last decade\, she founded and led the design firm re:focus partners and co-founded The Atlas\, an online platform for local government collaboration and innovation. \nPreviously\, Shalini served as Special Representative in the Office of Administrator Lisa Jackson at the Environmental Protection Agency. In this position\, she led the US-Brazil Joint Initiative on Urban Sustainability (JIUS) announced in March 2011 by Presidents Obama and Rousseff. She also served as Deputy Assistant Administrator in the Office of International & Tribal Affairs at the US EPA and as Deputy Associate Director for Energy and Climate at the White House Council on Environmental Quality. She joined the Obama Administration from the environmental think-tank Resources for the Future\, where she was awarded a patent for her climate adaptation mapping work. \nShalini received her B.Arch in Architecture and PhD in Engineering & Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University. She was a visiting associate professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) from 2013-2014\, where she designed and taught courses on International Environmental Diplomacy and Case Studies in Sustainable Development. She is currently a Board Member of Smart Growth America and a nonresident senior fellow with the Brookings Metro Program. \nwww.precollective.org \nLearn More Here about program and registration info \n  \n  URL:https://socal-asla.org/event/designing-for-resilience-with-shalini-vajjhala/ LOCATION:USC School of Architecture Harris 101 CATEGORIES:USC Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240615T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240615T120000 DTSTAMP:20260406T035727 CREATED:20240329T165020Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240604T174339Z UID:11613-1718445600-1718452800@socal-asla.org SUMMARY:Sketching Social Celebrating Pride Month - Will Rogers State Beach DESCRIPTION:View Program Announcement Here \nRegistration Here \n  \n  \n  URL:https://socal-asla.org/event/sketching-social-celebrating-pride-month-will-rogers-state-beach/ LOCATION:Ginger Rogsters Beach: Lifeguard Towers 17 + 18\, 1770 Pacific Coast Highway\, Santa Monica CATEGORIES:Cal Poly Pomona Events,Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Events,Emerging Pros Events,UCLA Events,USC Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230506T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230506T120000 DTSTAMP:20260406T035727 CREATED:20230215T210435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T210435Z UID:9959-1683363600-1683374400@socal-asla.org SUMMARY:2023 ASLA Student Honor and Merit Presentations - USC DESCRIPTION:Students will present their projects to five (5) jurors. \nASLA is committed to fostering equity and inclusion within our profession\, membership\, staff\, and leadership\, and as such would hope to have our jury reflect this commitment. Encouraging diversity involves celebrating difference based on gender\, race\, sexual orientation\, sexual identity\, culture\, or identity. URL:https://socal-asla.org/event/2023-asla-student-honor-and-merit-presentations-usc/ LOCATION:USC School of Architecture\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90089\, United States CATEGORIES:USC Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220507T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220507T120000 DTSTAMP:20260406T035727 CREATED:20220203T230054Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220203T230054Z UID:8640-1651914000-1651924800@socal-asla.org SUMMARY:2022 ASLA Honor and Merit Award Student Presentations - USC DESCRIPTION: URL:https://socal-asla.org/event/2022-asla-honor-and-merit-award-student-presentations-usc/ LOCATION:USC School of Architecture\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90089\, United States CATEGORIES:USC Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210520T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210520T183000 DTSTAMP:20260406T035727 CREATED:20210205T194533Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210205T194548Z UID:7261-1621530000-1621535400@socal-asla.org SUMMARY:GROUND - Broken grounds (Part 7) DESCRIPTION:an interdisciplinary series on the ground’s many manifestations and meanings \nWhile a primary medium for landscape architects’ physical intervention\, the ground has remained muted in discourse and action despite its many manifestations and capacities – to stir\, to connect\, to remember\, as well as to expose and destabilize. This multifaceted explorative series aims to excavate the ground for these manifestations and meanings to better understand how we (humans) situate ourselves in the world and in relation to each other\, to our pasts\, and to the more-than-human – materials\, systems\, species. We explore its significance as a noun (the ground; a material)\, a verb (to ground; its agency)\, and an adjective (to be grounded; situated). In particular\, the series will consider the ground as both a site of exploitation and extraction\, as well as resistance and creation. The series of conversations\, exhibition and field happenings focused on questions of landscape and its varied grounds\, integrates activists\, designers\, artists\, scholars\, scientists\, environmentalists with diverse and intersectional identities. \nPerhaps the most considered “grounds” by landscape architects\, broken ground refers to sites of contamination\, extraction and disturbance. Yet the discourse around extraction has remained relatively focused on discrete sites of large-operation “natural resource” extraction (mainly mines)\, rather than more nuanced environmental manifestations including the extraction of value and labor. Additionally\, rhetoric around remediation and mitigation have largely left out the ground as a source of risk to bodies most exposed. This final conversation additionally interrogates what it means to live and die on the grounds we (humans) have profoundly altered. \nMODERATOR: Vittoria Di Palma\, PhD\, Associate Professor\, USC School of Architecture \nInvitees practicing across art\, geography\, environmental humanities\, medical anthropology\, landscape architecture URL:https://socal-asla.org/event/ground-broken-grounds-part-7/ LOCATION:Virtual CATEGORIES:USC Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210506T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210506T183000 DTSTAMP:20260406T035727 CREATED:20210205T194052Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210205T194815Z UID:7256-1620320400-1620325800@socal-asla.org SUMMARY:GROUND - Othered grounds (Part 6) DESCRIPTION:an interdisciplinary series on the ground’s many manifestations and meanings \nWhile a primary medium for landscape architects’ physical intervention\, the ground has remained muted in discourse and action despite its many manifestations and capacities – to stir\, to connect\, to remember\, as well as to expose and destabilize. This multifaceted explorative series aims to excavate the ground for these manifestations and meanings to better understand how we (humans) situate ourselves in the world and in relation to each other\, to our pasts\, and to the more-than-human – materials\, systems\, species. We explore its significance as a noun (the ground; a material)\, a verb (to ground; its agency)\, and an adjective (to be grounded; situated). In particular\, the series will consider the ground as both a site of exploitation and extraction\, as well as resistance and creation. The series of conversations\, exhibition and field happenings focused on questions of landscape and its varied grounds\, integrates activists\, designers\, artists\, scholars\, scientists\, environmentalists with diverse and intersectional identities. \nThis conversation will focus particularly on the body and its relationship to the ground\, specifically those bodies that negotiate the ground outside what have been deemed “normative” frameworks. It will consider how the ground is structured by dominant systems to which Others must conform. Queer\, gendered\, racialized bodies\, otherly-abled bodies\, non-human bodies are all distinct in their ground negotiations but share their exclusion from hegemonic structures of ground formation. Grouping these categories of variant bodies is not intended to exaggerate the process of Othering\, but to discuss ways to mobilize across difference to upend structures of exclusion. \nMODERATOR: Gail Dubrow\, PhD\, Professor\, University of Minnesota\, School of Architecture \nInvitees practicing across disability studies\, queer studies\, gender studies\, international human rights\, animal studies\, landscape architecture \nRegister Here URL:https://socal-asla.org/event/ground-othered-grounds-part-vi/ LOCATION:Virtual CATEGORIES:USC Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210422T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210422T183000 DTSTAMP:20260406T035727 CREATED:20210205T193645Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210205T194752Z UID:7251-1619110800-1619116200@socal-asla.org SUMMARY:GROUND - Shaky grounds (Part 5) DESCRIPTION:an interdisciplinary series on the ground’s many manifestations and meanings \nWhile a primary medium for landscape architects’ physical intervention\, the ground has remained muted in discourse and action despite its many manifestations and capacities – to stir\, to connect\, to remember\, as well as to expose and destabilize. This multifaceted explorative series aims to excavate the ground for these manifestations and meanings to better understand how we (humans) situate ourselves in the world and in relation to each other\, to our pasts\, and to the more-than-human – materials\, systems\, species. We explore its significance as a noun (the ground; a material)\, a verb (to ground; its agency)\, and an adjective (to be grounded; situated). In particular\, the series will consider the ground as both a site of exploitation and extraction\, as well as resistance and creation. The series of conversations\, exhibition and field happenings focused on questions of landscape and its varied grounds\, integrates activists\, designers\, artists\, scholars\, scientists\, environmentalists with diverse and intersectional identities. \nPart 5 – Shaky grounds \nContested ground claims\, occupancies and appropriations are often played out over the most unstable of grounds – sites of flood\, flow\, subsidence\, slide\, as well as ground rendered fugitive through increasing aridity and/or misuse. This conversation is intended to consider the intersection of geo-/spatio- political forces and geophysical instability\, including what it means to occupy or be forced to occupy (or flee) risky ground. It additionally aims to imagine how grounds deemed instable have the potential to be sites of possibility\, for alternate modes and models of existence. \nMODERATOR: Davi Schoen\, USC Faculty\, Landscape Designer\, STOSS \nInvitees practicing across media studies\, anthropology\, art\, climate science\, geography\, landscape architecture \nRegister Here  URL:https://socal-asla.org/event/7251/ LOCATION:Virtual CATEGORIES:USC Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210408T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210408T183000 DTSTAMP:20260406T035727 CREATED:20210205T193045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210205T193045Z UID:7245-1617901200-1617906600@socal-asla.org SUMMARY:GROUND - Archival Grounds (part 4) DESCRIPTION:an interdisciplinary series on the ground’s many manifestations and meanings \nWhile a primary medium for landscape architects’ physical intervention\, the ground has remained muted in discourse and action despite its many manifestations and capacities – to stir\, to connect\, to remember\, as well as to expose and destabilize. This multifaceted explorative series aims to excavate the ground for these manifestations and meanings to better understand how we (humans) situate ourselves in the world and in relation to each other\, to our pasts\, and to the more-than-human – materials\, systems\, species. We explore its significance as a noun (the ground; a material)\, a verb (to ground; its agency)\, and an adjective (to be grounded; situated). In particular\, the series will consider the ground as both a site of exploitation and extraction\, as well as resistance and creation. The series of conversations\, exhibition and field happenings focused on questions of landscape and its varied grounds\, integrates activists\, designers\, artists\, scholars\, scientists\, environmentalists with diverse and intersectional identities. \nThe ground is a material register. It is an archive of climate events\, tectonic action\, erosive and sedimentary force in geologic time. It archives biotic presence and extinction. It serves as both witness and material testimony to human deeds and misdeeds that have occurred on very specific grounds (ground zeros) – often deemed hallowed. The ground holds the traces of past presences – memories of hands that worked it and the bodies buried within it. This conversation will feature these multifaceted considerations of the ground as material record. \nMODERATOR: Shannon Mattern\, PhD\, Professor of Anthropology\, The New School for Social Research \nInvitees practicing across cultural landscape studies\, public history\, curatorial studies\, restorative justice\, archaeology \nRegister here \n  URL:https://socal-asla.org/event/ground-archival-grounds-part-4/ LOCATION:Virtual CATEGORIES:USC Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210325T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210325T180000 DTSTAMP:20260406T035727 CREATED:20210205T192528Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210205T194723Z UID:7242-1616691600-1616695200@socal-asla.org SUMMARY:GROUND -Ancestral Grounds - (Part 3) DESCRIPTION:an interdisciplinary series on the ground’s many manifestations and meanings \nWhile a primary medium for landscape architects’ physical intervention\, the ground has remained muted in discourse and action despite its many manifestations and capacities – to stir\, to connect\, to remember\, as well as to expose and destabilize. This multifaceted explorative series aims to excavate the ground for these manifestations and meanings to better understand how we (humans) situate ourselves in the world and in relation to each other\, to our pasts\, and to the more-than-human – materials\, systems\, species. We explore its significance as a noun (the ground; a material)\, a verb (to ground; its agency)\, and an adjective (to be grounded; situated). In particular\, the series will consider the ground as both a site of exploitation and extraction\, as well as resistance and creation. The series of conversations\, exhibition and field happenings focused on questions of landscape and its varied grounds\, integrates activists\, designers\, artists\, scholars\, scientists\, environmentalists with diverse and intersectional identities. \nPart III – Ancestral grounds \nThis conversation will focus on the ground as material medium through which to connect with ancestors\, as a manifestation of ancestral presence and care\, as a homeplace. It will consider dislocated grounds as a medium through which to explore\, shape and express diasporic identities and connections to homeland. It will additionally investigate ancestral grounds as sites of dispossession\, expulsion and displacement\, and as a political terrain to which claims to rights and access are played out; where communities indigenous to a particular ground can claim the right to self-determination. \nMODERATOR: Thaisa Way\, PhD\, Director of Landscape Studies\, Dumbarton Oaks \nRegister Here URL:https://socal-asla.org/event/ground-part-iii/ LOCATION:Virtual CATEGORIES:USC Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210311T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210311T183000 DTSTAMP:20260406T035727 CREATED:20210205T191810Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210205T194701Z UID:7234-1615482000-1615487400@socal-asla.org SUMMARY:GROUND - Working grounds (Part 2) DESCRIPTION:an interdisciplinary series on the ground’s many manifestations and meanings \nWhile a primary medium for landscape architects’ physical intervention\, the ground has remained muted in discourse and action despite its many manifestations and capacities – to stir\, to connect\, to remember\, as well as to expose and destabilize. This multifaceted explorative series aims to excavate the ground for these manifestations and meanings to better understand how we (humans) situate ourselves in the world and in relation to each other\, to our pasts\, and to the more-than-human – materials\, systems\, species. We explore its significance as a noun (the ground; a material)\, a verb (to ground; its agency)\, and an adjective (to be grounded; situated). In particular\, the series will consider the ground as both a site of exploitation and extraction\, as well as resistance and creation. The series of conversations\, exhibition and field happenings focused on questions of landscape and its varied grounds\, integrates activists\, designers\, artists\, scholars\, scientists\, environmentalists with diverse and intersectional identities. \nPart II – Working grounds \nWhile the ground is a space of care\, it has also been the site of exploited hands and broken bodies. This conversation will focus on both the care of the ground as embodied practice\, and the conflicted and often violent relationship between labor and land. Ancestral and indigenous knowledge systems will be integral to the former\, and practices of enslavement and unfree labor the latter\, to generate a fuller understanding of the ground as a space of work and conflict – the work of care and the violence of work. \nMODERATOR: Alison Hirsch\, PhD\, FAAR\, Associate Professor/Director of Landscape Architecture + Urbanism\, USC School of Architecture \nInvitees practicing across history\, environmental humanities\, indigenous land care\, landscape architecture \nRegister Here URL:https://socal-asla.org/event/ground-part-ii/ LOCATION:Virtual CATEGORIES:USC Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210225T050000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210225T183000 DTSTAMP:20260406T035727 CREATED:20210205T191256Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210205T194629Z UID:7227-1614229200-1614277800@socal-asla.org SUMMARY:GROUND - Material grounds (Part 1) DESCRIPTION:an interdisciplinary series on the ground’s many manifestations and meanings \nWhile a primary medium for landscape architects’ physical intervention\, the ground has remained muted in discourse and action despite its many manifestations and capacities – to stir\, to connect\, to remember\, as well as to expose and destabilize. This multifaceted explorative series aims to excavate the ground for these manifestations and meanings to better understand how we (humans) situate ourselves in the world and in relation to each other\, to our pasts\, and to the more-than-human – materials\, systems\, species. We explore its significance as a noun (the ground; a material)\, a verb (to ground; its agency)\, and an adjective (to be grounded; situated). In particular\, the series will consider the ground as both a site of exploitation and extraction\, as well as resistance and creation. The series of conversations\, exhibition and field happenings focused on questions of landscape and its varied grounds\, integrates activists\, designers\, artists\, scholars\, scientists\, environmentalists with diverse and intersectional identities. \nPart I – Material Grounds \nWe start this series of conversations with deep consideration of the ground’s physical matter – its underlying geologies\, its biotic and abiotic assemblages\, its biochemical processes\, its material flows – as a means to focus our attention downward to the complex living system beneath our feet. As we contemplate its possible futures within the geologic epoch of the Anthropocene\, we additionally mine the histories of extraction\, exploitation\, and violence that have brought us to this point. Operating across a range of scales\, timeframes\, and depths\, this initial conversation explores the animate\, relational\, and differentiated articulations of the “ground” as material. \nMODERATOR: Aroussiak Gabrielian\, PhD\, FAAR\, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture + Urbanism\, USC School of Architecture \nInvitees practicing across art\, environmental humanities\, art theory\, soil science\, landscape architecture \nRegister Here URL:https://socal-asla.org/event/ground/ LOCATION:Virtual CATEGORIES:USC Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190609T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190609T150000 DTSTAMP:20260406T035727 CREATED:20190608T155234Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190608T155234Z UID:5338-1560078000-1560092400@socal-asla.org SUMMARY:ASKETCHLA - West Hollywood DESCRIPTION: URL:https://socal-asla.org/event/asketchla-west-hollywood/ CATEGORIES:Cal Poly Pomona Events,Emerging Pros Events,UCLA Events,USC Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://socal-asla.org/socal/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/20190609-WestHollywood-06-e1560008908225.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170318T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170318T150000 DTSTAMP:20260406T035727 CREATED:20170208T232334Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170310T171335Z UID:2833-1489831200-1489849200@socal-asla.org SUMMARY:HALS (Historic American Landscape Survey) training at the lovely Virginia Robinson Gardens DESCRIPTION:What is HALS? \nHALS is the academic record of historically significant American landscapes. The HALS mission is to record historic landscapes through measured drawings and interpretative drawings\, written histories and large format black and white photographs and color photographs. HALS builds on the HABS and HAER documentation traditions\, while expanding the range of stories that can be told about human relationships with the land. HALS documents the dynamics of landscapes\, as HABS and HAER have documented unique building and engineering structures. \nWhat is a HALS Project? \nTo quote the HALS website:\n“Historic landscapes are special places. They are important touchstones of national\, regional\, and local identity. They foster a sense of community and place. Historic landscapes are also fragile places. They are affected by the forces of nature\, and by commercial and residential development\, vandalism and neglect. They undergo changes that are often unpredictable and irreversible. For these reasons and for the benefit of future generations\, it is important to document these places. Historic landscapes vary in size from small gardens to several thousand-acre national parks. In character\, they range from designed to vernacular\, rural to urban\, and agricultural to industrial spaces. Vegetable patches\, estate gardens\, cemeteries\, farms\, quarries\, nuclear test sites\, suburbs\, and abandoned settlements all may be considered historic landscapes.” \nMore information on HALS can be found at https://www.nps.gov/hdp/hals/ \nWhat will HALS Training include? \nWe have the good fortune to learn about HALS at the lovely Virginia Robinson Gardens\, a 6-1/2 acre Mediterranean Classic Revival estate built in 1911\, jointly administered by the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation and Friends of Robinson Gardens. The Estate is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is the perfect setting for learning the tools to document a historic landscape. \nSpeakers will include Tim Lindsay\, Superintendent of the Virginia Robinson Gardens\, and Janet Gracyk\, Landscape Architect. \nTim Lindsey\, horticulturalist and estate manager\, will introduce us to the gardens\, their history and significance.\nJanet Gracyk is a landscape architect with an expertise on historical preservation and planning. She will lead the HALS training.\nThis program will provide you with the hands on tools to prepare a HALS documentation of a historic landscape\, and give you the resources for preparing HALS documentations on your own. We will be based in the pool pavilion for the morning\, and after lunch we will be in the gardens for hands on site inventory and analysis. \nCost: (Includes Lunch)\n$50 – Professionals (RESERVE HERE) \nDue to a generous sponsor who has come forward\, ASLA students may attend this training for free. However\, an RSVP is still needed. Students who want to attend should email: vphillipy@socal-asla.org \nStudents who have previously registered will be refunded and notified in writing by email. URL:https://socal-asla.org/event/hals-historic-american-landscape-survey-training-lovely-virginia-robinson-gardens/ LOCATION:Virginia Robinson Gardens\, 1008 Elden Way\, Beverly Hills\, CA\, 90210\, United States CATEGORIES:Cal Poly Pomona Events,Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Events,HALS Events,UCLA Events,USC Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://socal-asla.org/socal/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/VRE-e1486596189121.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161116T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161116T200000 DTSTAMP:20260406T035727 CREATED:20161011T185427Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161011T185427Z UID:2410-1479319200-1479326400@socal-asla.org SUMMARY:Lecture - Martha Schwartz\, FASLA DESCRIPTION:Martha Schwartz is a landscape architect and artist with major interests in cities\, communities and the urban landscape. As principal of Martha Schwartz Partners\, she has over 35 years of experience as a landscape architect\, urbanist and artist on a wide variety of projects located around the world with a variety of world-renowned architects. She is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes including the Honorary Royal Designer for Industry Award from the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts\, Manufactures and Commerce for her outstanding contribution to UK design; the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award; the Women in Design Award for Excellence from the Boston Society of Architects; a Doctor of Science from the University of Ulster in Belfast\, Ireland; a fellowship from the Urban Design Institute; visiting residencies at Radcliffe College and the American Academy in Rome; an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Institute of British Architects and most recently a Council of Fellows Award by the American Society of Landscape Architects. Martha Schwartz is a tenured Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a founding member of the Working Group of Sustainable Cities at Harvard University. She has lectured both nationally and internationally about sustainable cities and the urban landscape\, and her work has been featured widely in publications as well as gallery exhibitions. \nFor Program Information\, learn more here URL:https://socal-asla.org/event/lecture-martha-schwartz-fasla/ LOCATION:Gin d. Wong\, FAIA Conference Center\, Harris Hall CATEGORIES:USC Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://socal-asla.org/socal/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/gin_d_wong_conference_center.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160922 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160925 DTSTAMP:20260406T035727 CREATED:20160809T184736Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160912T223624Z UID:1080-1474502400-1474761599@socal-asla.org SUMMARY:Landscape Architecture as Necessity - September 22 - 24 DESCRIPTION:From Thursday\, September 22\, 2016\nTo Saturday\, September 24\, 2016 \nIn just over a week the USC Landscape Architecture + Urbanism program will host the Landscape Architecture as Necessity Conference here at USC (September 22-24).\nThis three-day conference intends to promote intensive debate by bringing together complementary and contrasting positions that have recently arisen around the politically charged issue of global climate change. Five keynote panels\, Resource & Risk\, Native & Exotic\, Wet & Dry\, Culture & Utility and Plans & Policies\, with civic leaders\, landscape architects\, and politicians and academics from Los Angeles and internationally renowned landscape architects\, activists\, artists and academics from will open and close the day. Peer-reviewed paper and Pecha Kucha sessions will have prepared responses from the keynote guests. The entire conference is scheduled to allow ample discussion and debate. \nClick here for a list of our confirmed presenters and participants.\nRegistration is open and we encourage you to sign up today as we are limited to the number of attendees to the conference. For information about registration please click here. Please feel free to forward this email to your colleagues and friends who may be interested in attending the conference. \nLocation : USC School of Architecture\nContact : 213-821-1845 URL:https://socal-asla.org/event/landscape-architecture-necessity-september-22-24/ LOCATION:USC School of Architecture\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90089\, United States CATEGORIES:USC Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://socal-asla.org/socal/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/USC-Arch.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR