Cultural Landscape Symposium
A CENTURY AGO, the natural landscape of the Midwest inspired a new American architectural and landscape design expression known as the Prairie Style. The 150th anniversary of the birth of landscape designer Jens Jensen in 2010, offers a timely and unique opportunity to explore the Prairie Style legacy in southeast Michigan.
Where?: The Henry Ford Estate and The Henry Ford's Benson Ford Research Center in Dearborn * The Edsel & Eleanor Ford House in Grosse Pointe Shores * Nichols Arboretum, the Bentley Historical Library, and Matthaei Botanical Gardens
For more information and registration, go to:
http://www.henryfordestate.org/RegistrationForm.pdf
Association for Preservation Technology
Denver, Colorado
Layers Across Time – Preserving a Diverse Western Heritage
This conference will focus on the many layers Colorado and places beyond have experienced throughout history. Professionals from around the world will examine history and the built environment via materials, type of structures, patterns of growth and the future of preservation through sustainable design.
The Conference will also continue the APT tradition of setting the standard for preservation ideologies, to present the most current technologies to assist the preservation process, and to give voice to the international community for preservation findings. It is from this foundation that the ongoing discussion will continue on how to successfully link preservation and sustainability during the age of rapid climate change.
http://aptconference.org/
Charleston Gardens
Atlanta History Centre, Atlanta, Georgia
Cherokee Garden Library at the Atlanta History Center hosts a lecture featuring renowned garden historian and author James R. Cothran, who will discuss his new book, Charleston Gardens and the Landscape Legacy of Loutrel Briggs at 7:00 PM, followed by a book signing and reception celebrating the Garden Library's 35th Anniversary.
Blue Ridge Parkway Symposium
Roanoke, Virginia
Hosted by Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources and Environment in cooperation with Blue Ridge Parkway 75, Inc., this conference is designed to assist community leaders, businesses, economic development authorities, tourism offices, academics, and supporters of the Parkway realize their greatest potential as a Parkway neighbor. The conference will feature regional and national speakers on topics critical to sustaining communities, environments, and economies in the Blue Ridge Parkway region.
To register for this opportunity or to obtain additional information please visit the Blue Ridge Parkway 75 Symposium
website.
October 15-16, 2010
The 22nd Annual Southern Garden Symposium & Workshops
St. Francisville, Louisiana
The 2010 program includes a floral design demonstration by Ron Morgan from California, as well as workshops on native plants, antique roses, shade gardens, and more. Lectures will continue on Saturday with programs by noted speakers including professor and consultant David Creech, historian William Seale, and ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin.
21-23 October 2010
ICOMOS Canada 2010 Congress: Conserving Agricultural Heritage
Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Ontario
For more information, visit http://canada.icomos.org/congress.html
October 22-24, 2010
The Northern Neck Cultural Landscape Symposium
Stratford Hall, Stratford, Virginia
This third symposium in the series will study the region's formal landscapes of the colonial and early national periods, examining closely the gardens and "big house" landscapes that were necessary complements to colonial plantation seats.
National Trust
Austin, Texas
Next American City, Next American Landscape
Join hundreds of grass-roots volunteers, skilled professionals, and preservation experts exploring preservation today - in urban and rural settings across the United States. We’ll focus on the conventional and the controversial issues that arise every day, and share the most effective tools and practices for fostering preservation in any community.
Prepare yourself for a completely new National Preservation Conference experience! To complement our future-focused Austin theme, we’ve planned dynamic new programs that encourage conversation and interaction, and spotlight 21st-century preservation imperatives.
http://www.preservationnation.org/resources/training/npc/
Landscapes for Living: Post War Landscape Architecture in Georgia
Atlanta, Georgia
The Cultural Landscape Foundation and the Cherokee Garden Library at the Atlanta History Center will host a Pioneer Regional Symposium to celebrate the recent publication of Shaping the American Landscape: New Profiles from the Pioneers of American Landscape Design Project.
Georgia Landscapes for Living will place a focus on the unique Post War legacy of public and private landscapes during what is now thought to be an optimistic time of innovation and experimentation. Nationally recognized speakers from the public and private sectors and the academic community will provide rare insight and analysis of this unprecedented era of design - from parks and plazas to gardens and subdivisions. The symposium will look both back and ahead, culminating in a panel discussion that explores what this Modern landscape legacy means in the 21st century design and historic preservation community.
For more information contact TCLF at 202.483.0553 or info@tclf.org.
| November 30-December 2, 2010 |
Historic Tree Preservation Workshop
Fredericksburg, VA
Do you work or volunteer at a site that has old trees on the property? Have you ever wondered if an older tree is hazardous? If a significant tree requires special care? How to extend the life of an important tree? What to do when a tree no longer stands? This is your opportunity to answer those questions and learn more about mature trees.
This training is for landscape managers, maintenance staff, volunteers, and others who are interested in historic trees. No previous tree care knowledge is required. Just come with an interest in mature trees and a willingness to learn! The workshop will feature lectures and field sessions to enable participants to practice the skills taught.
For more information: www.ncptt.nps.gov
The George Wright Society
New Orleans, Louisiana
Rethinking Protected Areas in a Changing World
The society is dedicated to the protection, preservation, and management of cultural and natural parks and reserves through research and education. Join us next March for the USA's premier professional meeting on parks, protected areas, and cultural sites! Abstracts are now being accepted for papers, posters, sessions, and more.
For more information: http://www.georgewright.org/gws2011
Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA)
Los Angeles, California
Urban Nature
This conference seeks to further our understanding of ourselves as part of nature, and how we ask critical questions about this in our design, research, and teaching. Such criticality demands a sharp focus on a more integrative ecology and a breadth of perspectives and productive debates in the form of posters, presentations, and panel discussions. Each presenter and participant is encouraged to reference "our nature in nature" as this may apply to the focus of their explorations.
For more information see: www.thecela.org
Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation’s 33rd conference
Fort Worth, Texas
More details to come!
CFP: Landscape History Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians Symposium
New Orleans, Louisiana
(preceding the Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians)
Landscape Architecture and Economics
Sonja Duempelmann, University of Maryland, and Marc Treib (University of California, Berkeley, ret.)
As commissioned projects - and even those self-generated - all landscape architecture reflects the workings and influence of one or more economic systems. Whether propelled or limited by the resources of the client, by the intended use of the landscape, or the financial status of those who will use it, designed landscapes are rooted inherently in finance, overtly or covertly. The 2011 Landscape History Chapter symposium welcomes submissions that investigate the subject of the designed landscape and economics from a variety of perspectives, from all periods in history, and from all cultures. However, primary emphasis should be placed on designed landscapes rather than cultural landscapes or planning projects.
Subjects might include (offered only to illustrate the range of potential topics): What was the role of forest production in the making of the English landscape garden or in other garden traditions? How did labor figure in the making of landmark gardens, parks, and suburbs? How have particular designed landscapes served colonial industries or in the making of company towns? How were/are landscape architects' offices organized and what is the effect of that structure on the making of designed landscape? How does "branded" landscape architecture achieve an identity? How have superannuated industrial processes and their landscapes influenced the course of their redevelopment as landscapes for leisure? How have parks and gardens been cast as tourist destinations in and of themselves, either as ephemeral garden shows or expositions, or on a more permanent basis? Of course, these are only a few suggestions.
Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words no later than September 15th to both Sonja Duempelmann at sduempel@umd.edu and Marc Treib at mtreib@socrates.berkeley.edu. Accepted speakers will be notified by October 1, 2010, with drafts of the full papers (maximum of 2,000 words) due January 15, 2011.
