Registration is now closed. (Unfortunately, there is no on-site day of registration).

For those who are registered we will see you on Thursday!!!

The 2012 OCASLA Annual Meeting will be held at the Greater Columbus Convention Center on Thursday, May 17th.

2012 Ohio Chapter ASLA Annual Meeting Fees

ASLA Member

   o Full Day (including lunch): $175

   o Half Day (including lunch): $100

Non-ASLA Member

   o Full Day (including lunch): $225

   o Half Day (including lunch): $125

SCASLA Member (Student)

   o Full Day (including lunch): $35

   o Half Day (including lunch): $30

Non-SCASLA Member (Student)

   o Full Day (including lunch): $45

   o Half Day (including lunch): $40

2012 Annual Meeting Agenda

7:30 - 8:30 am Registration, Vendor Expo & Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 10:00 am Educational Session #1
10:00 - 10:20 am Break & Vendor Expo
10:20 - 11:20 am Educational Session #2
11:20 - 11:40 am Snack & Vendor Expo
11:40 - 12:40 pm Educational Session #3
12:40 - 2:00 pm Vendor Expo Luncheon
2:00 - 3:30 pm Keynote Speaker, Educational Session #4
3:30 - 3:50 pm Break & Vendor Expo
3:50 - 4:50 pm Educational Session #5
4:50 - 5:10 pm Break & Vendor Expo
5:10 - 6:10 pm Educational Session #6

Vendor Expo

Interested in a vendor expo table? Sign up for one today for $400. What a great opportunity to mingle with landscape architecture professionals for over 3 hours. Click here for more information!

Are you looking for summer internship students, or better yet full-time employment opportunities for an entry-level position? 

OCASLA in conjunction with KSA will have a student portfolio table as well as a job postings table and board. Please contact annualmeeting@ocasla.com to inquire about more information.

CEU Sessions

Educational Session #1 - 1.5 CEU

Healing Gardens and Landscapes: From Big Idea to "Eye Sparkling" Detail

With healing gardens being developed in healthcare facilities across North America, this session will examine what it takes to move from the “BIG idea” to detailed implementation and how “eye sparkling” implementation techniques can encourage development of meaningful projects. Techniques, spaces and materials used in healing gardens will be discussed discovering the ways and means of relating the whole to the smallest spaces. As landscape architects, we affect the experiences of people as they move through spaces – ideally this experience is a positive one of magic and wonder. Come prepared to take a journey of the heart and be inspired.

Speakers: Virginia Burt, ASLA, OALA / Craig Cawrse, FASLA

Educational Session #2A - 1.0 CEU

Grand Lake St. Marys: Algae, Energy and Agricultural Alternatives - Saving a lake and modeling solutions for Watersheds Beyond

Degradation of our precious fresh waters is one of the greatest threats to our life and security through the coming century. Grand Lake St. Mary's Ohio, is an opportunity to illustrate that "Cleaner is Greener" and that changing agricultural paradigms can be an environmental "win" , and an energy and economic boon.

Speaker: Deborah Yale Georg, KSA

Educational Session #2B - 1.0 CEU

Stream and Wetland Permitting: an Update on Changes to Federal and State Regulations

How are changes to state and federal regulation of wetlands and streams going to impact you and your clients? This presentation will delve into recent changes to 404/401 permitting and its potential effect on your projects.

Speakers: Greg Snowden, M.S.

Educational Session #3A - 1.0 CEU

Flint River Restoration Plan: Strategies and Alliances for Restoration of an Urban River Resource, Flint, Michigan 

The focus of this presentation will be to demonstrate how an interdisciplinary approach allowed the City of Flint and the large project stakeholder group to see the riverfront opportunities more clearly and with greater energy to implement the plan. The riverfront restoration plan fuses the technical elements for flood control with ecological restoration, public open space design, recreational boating and redevelopment of underutilized land. The presentation will provide an overview on the collaborative process and strategic thinking that brought together a plan to address the multiple objectives noted above.

Speaker:  David Anthony, PLA, AICP

Educational Session #3B - 1.0 CEU

Using Natural Landscapes for Flood Mitigation and Water Quality in Urban Watersheds

Local, State and Federal agencies around Ohio are recognizing that Green Infrastructure solutions provide cost effective solutions to flood mitigation and water quality improvement. This presentation will describe green infrastructure case studies from around Ohio which illustrate functional and attractive green Infrastructure projects.

Speaker:  Thomas M. Evans, ASLA

Educational Session #4 - 1.5 CEU

Keynote Speaker:  Susannah Drake, ASLA, AIA

Resilient Urban Environments: Landscape Architect as Instigator of Change

Susannah C. Drake, AIA, ASLA will present how her approach 'resilient to urban infrastructure' is reshaping the landscape in New York City. Her role as the President of the New York City Chapter and development of innovative business strategies in a down economy suggest methods for increasing the role of the landscape architect as the transformative leader of new green infrastructure thinking.

Speaker Bio

Susannah C. Drake ASLA, AIA is the Principal of dlandstudio pllc, a multi-disciplinary design firm that is the recipient of National and International design and urban design awards from the AIA, ASLA and Chicago Athenaeum among others. Susannah received a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Dartmouth College and MArch and MLA degrees from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is the recipient of grants from the Graham Foundation, New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission, The James Marston Fitch Foundation, NOAA, DEP, the EPA and the New York State Council on the Arts for applied research on campus landscapes and large scale urban infrastructure. Susannah is the former President and Trustee of The New York ASLA, a Trustee of the Van Alen Institute and a visiting studio professor at, Syracuse, the Cooper Union and Harvard University GSD. She is the author of Elastic Landscape: Seeding Ecology in Public Space & Urban Infrastructure which was recently published in the collection of essays entitled 'Infrastruktururbanismus'.

Educational Session #5A - 1.0 CEU

The Spaces between Places

There is nearly $6 billion in public and private sector investments taking place in Cleveland’s downtown core. A new Medical Mart and Convention Center is being constructed at the site of famed architect Daniel Burnham’s 1903 Group Plan district of Cleveland. Ohio’s first casino is opening on Public Square, the historic heart of the city’s downtown. And the first new major office building to be constructed in Cleveland in over a decade is rising on the banks of the Cuyahoga River. LAND studio is the non-profit organization leading the charge in collaboration with public agencies and private sector partners to connect these investments with well-designed streets and public spaces to remake the face of downtown Cleveland. As a private non-profit, LAND studio’s role has been to build cross-sector partnerships and leverage philanthropic support to orchestrate the planning, design, and implementation of strategic urban spaces. The organization is currently working with several of the country’s leading landscape architecture and planning firms on this effort including James Corner Field Operations (New York), Gustafson Guthrie Nichol (Seattle), CMG (San Francisco), and Nelson/Nygaard (Boston).

Speaker:  Gregory Peckham / Ann Zoller

Educational Session #5B - 1.0 CEU

Landscape Systems, Urban Heat Island, and Climate Change: A landscape architecture approach to adaptation planning

This presentation will discuss the results from an assessment of adaptation plans for various U.S. cities, with a focus of the evaluation on ecology, ecological processes, and landscape systems. Landscape architects are well positioned to contribute to climate change/landscape systems studies and should see themselves as leaders for these types of projects

Speaker:  Charles Frederick, PLA, LEED AP

Educational Session #6 - 1.0 CEU

Landscape Architecture and Public Welfare

The licensing of Landscape Architects intends to ensure protection of public health, safety and welfare, and while the concepts of health and safety are easy to understand, there has been a lack of definition for “public welfare”. This presentation will discuss the groundbreaking study commissioned by the Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards (CLARB) which sought to define public welfare, and, using award winning Ohio projects as examples, illustrate the impacts and benefits of landscape architecture has on the public welfare.

Speaker:  Amy Kobe, CAE, Hon. AIA / Tim Schmalenberger, PLA, ASLA