Organized and presented by The Cultural Landscape Foundation, this daylong symposium will focus on New York City just as the city’s Department of City Planning (DCP) is actively engaging with communities throughout the five boroughs to advance their own zoning and land use strategies in an effort to “reduce flood risks and support the city’s vitality and resiliency through long-term adaptive planning.”
he symposium will feature leading women landscape architects, as well as allied professionals, whose work is creative, courageous, and timely. These practitioners are inventing and deploying new tools, techniques, and technologies to meet the challenges of the current climate crisis in New York City and beyond. Speakers will include:
In contemplating the role that ecological systems and cultural lifeways can play in the future of our cities in the wake of the undeniable climate crisis, the speakers will also address another of Oberlander’s challenges, namely to “uplift the profession to new heights and to understand that the profession can’t stand still because there are new waves of happenings in the world, such as understanding climate change, scarcity of water, and scarcity of land. Therefore, our designs have to change accordingly.”
Like Oberlander, who stated that “with risk-taking comes responsibility and the responsibility comes with research,” these practitioners and educators all value and rely upon research and science as much as planning and design.
A reception the evening prior will offer speakers and attendees a chance to mingle and initiate conversations about the day ahead.
