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Landscape Architecture on Display

Posted in Call for discussion, Free Publicity on October 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

We have a logo but how about a signature interactive display that educates the public? The Indiana Chapter assembled benches with information about the profession for NLAM 2011:

The San Diego Chapter installed 10 potted trees in areas devoid of vegetation. Both resulted in people appreciating what a designed space can mean in our daily lives especially in areas left without a cool place to sit down and enjoy the world around us.

Check out these planters on rollers from the Netherlands. What a great way to demonstrate the natrual environment interacting with the built world:

And these installations that can serve as benches or playgrounds from Moscow.

Could we do it across the country? What would be the cost associated with such a project? What do you think? Would it be beneficial?

For further details on those project visit:

http://www.landezine.com/index.php/2011/04/inktpot-utrecht-by-okra-landscape-architecture/

http://www.landezine.com/index.php/2011/10/okra-landscape-architecture-moscow/

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Take Ownership of this Blog and the Future of Landscape Architecture

Posted in Call for discussion on September 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

We all know that landscape architects launched an awareness campaign on 08.17.11.  For next steps what would you like to see landscape architects do to raise further awareness and understanding?

Pro-bono work? Another 08.17.11?

We now have a website that introduces the profession.  What more can we do?

This is your blog.
Use it. Share your thoughts.

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Planetizen Challenges Us

Posted in Call for discussion, Green Initiatives on April 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

“So we look forward to the day when the leadership of landscape architecture will finally transcend a tired and irrelevant industrial fine art project, and help to bring about the exciting urban renaissance that is, as evidence suggests, entirely possible.”

How is our PR meeting this challenge?

http://www.planetizen.com/node/48993

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CSI: Landscape Architecture

Posted in Call for discussion, Media Pitch on April 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Crime, terrorism, and landscape architecture?  We already know green garners the headlines these days. And thankfully we’re in luck as green fortunately is the medium in which we work.  Not to mention we hold expert titles in green infrastructure and we’re working diligently to educate the public of these issues.  As a truly multidisciplinary profession we should not limit ourselves.  Therefore, we don’t have to always rely on green as our media hook.  In terms of introducing the public to the profession what types of events and outreach could stress the profession as leaders in the field of design and crime prevention?  The profession offers serious solutions not only to terror prevention but security from natural disasters especially in the wake of the crisis in Japan.  What went wrong?  What can we all be more aware of as we interact with our natural environment?  How can we better join this conversation offering our knowledge and promoting the profession at the same time?

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Calling for a Discussion on Misconceptions of the General Public: Ideas Wanted

Posted in Call for discussion on March 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

 

 How do you make the profession accessible to the general public without re-enforcing the misconceptions we’re trying to get away from in the first place? Many chapters plant trees, pot plants with elementary students and dig in the dirt but do so to portray complex concepts to those curious about the profession.

Is that the only and best way to do so?  What are the negatives? You go with what’s familiar and then explain the greater significance?  What have you done that works?  What would you like to see done?  My hope is that this opens up a discussion on what can LAs do to raise awareness of the meat of their profession.  Let’s start some healthy chatter.

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