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URI Community Planning & Landscape Architecture Lectures
Fall 2012 - Spring 2013

Lectures begin at 7:00 P.M. and are held in the Weaver Auditorium on the Kingston Campus of URI. The series is co-sponsored by the URI Office of Vice President for Administration and Finance, College of the Environment and Life Sciences, the Rhode Island Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Rhode Island Nursery and Landscape Association, and the American Planning Association RI Chapter. The talk by Elizabeth Mossop is being sponsored by the URI Coastal Institute. All lectures are free and open to the public. The lecture hall is handicapped accessible. General questions about the series may be directed to 874-2983. For Directions - http://www.uri.edu/ce/wq/OWT/Directions/index.htm


Fall 2012

October 11

Harry Dodson
Principal, Dodson Associates, Ltd., Ashfield, MA
Title: "Scenery and Survival: The Future of Rural New England Landscapes"

October 25

Kristine Kenney, ASLA
Landscape Architect, University of Washington
Title: "The University Campus: Preserving Legacy, Creating History"

November 8

Bradford McKee
Editor, Landscape Architecture Magazine
Title: "Landscape and Confrontation"

Spring 2013

January 31

Patricia O’Donnell, FASLA
Heritage Landscapes LLC, Charlotte, VT
Title: "Cultural Landscapes of our Global Future"

Febrary 21

Stephen Stimson, FASLA
Stephen Stimson Associates, Cambridge, MA
Title: "Yankee Ingenuity: Place-Making in the Regional Landscape"

March 21

Karen Daubmann
Director of Exhibitions and Season Displays, New York Botanical Garden
Title: "Designing The Visitor’s Experience at the New York Botanical Gardens"

April 4

Barbara Wilks, FASLA
Principal W Architecture & Landscape Architecture, New York, NY
Title: tba

April 19

Elizabeth Mossop, FASLA
Professor, LSU
Title: tba

 

I am a Landscape Architecture Student

URI Landscape Architecture students came together to discuss their experiences in the profession, thoughts on the future, and provide advice for future Landscape Architecture students. Check out the video below!