General Sessions

GS-01 Please be Seated: Laurie Olin, FASLA, and Susan Stamberg, In Conversation

Saturday October 20 
8:00 – 9:00 am
Terrace Ballroom
1 PDH, LA CES/non-HSW, FL

Join world renowned broadcast journalist Susan Stamberg and one of landscape architecture’s visionary designers and educators, Laurie Olin, FASLA, in conversation. Throughout his 40 year, award-winning career Olin has designed some of nation’s most iconic spaces including Bryant Park, Columbus Circle, and, the Washington Monument grounds all while educating generations of students and writing on the history and theory of landscape architecture.

Susan Stamberg joined National Public Radio in 1971 and is the first female to anchor a nightly news program. Throughout her 45 plus year career Stamberg has conducted thousands of interviews with some of the world’s most influential artists including James Baldwin, Georgia O’Keefe, Robert Altman, and Dave Brubeck. She has authored multiple books and has been inducted into both the Broadcasting and National Public Radio Halls of Fame.

Generational contemporaries and both Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Stamberg and Olin, through their respective disciplines, have articulated the power of art and design to influence culture and shape communities.




   

GS-02 Future/Forward: Landscapes of Opportunity at the Edge of the Virtual World

Sunday, October 21 
8:00 – 9:00 am
Terrace Ballroom
1 PDH, LA CES/non-HSW, FL

The worlds of technology and design are at a critical point of inflection. As we transition between the information age towards the post-internet era, we find ourselves in the throes of a cultural revolution propelled by the pressures and opportunities presented by an increasingly technological world. As computation spills out of our tablets and cell phones into devices of every kind, our lives have increasingly become a platform themselves, our very heartbeats inflecting the powerful intersection of the digital and physical world, posing a fundamental question:

Looking across the next decade, how will the technologies we design shape our human experience?

In this talk Amazon Principal UX Designer, Ana Pinto da Silva explores the complex, generative landscape of opportunity emerging at intersection of virtual and physical space, offering a consideration of what it means to be truly human in a technological world as we pass the quarter mark of the 21st Century.

Attendees are invited to continue the conversation with Ms. Pinto da Silva from 9:30 - 10:15 am in the ASLA EXPO. Haley Blakeman, ASLA Vice President of Communications will moderate the conversation.

Ana Pinto da Silva
Principal UX Design Lead
Amazon



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