Tuesday

May 11, 2010

Wednesday

May 12, 2010

Thursday

May 13, 2010

Friday

May 14, 2010

Morning

Opening session

Plenary key note speeches

Parallel sessions

Parallel sessions

Conference tours

Afternoon

Registration

Parallel sessions

Parallel sessions

Evening

Registration

Welcome reception

Farewell diner

Michael Van Valkenburgh

Michael Van Valkenburgh is the founding principal of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc., Landscape Architects, a firm of 55 staff members, with offices in Brooklyn, NY and in Cambridge, MA. Throughout his work as a designer, professional, and educator, he has championed the experiential possibilities of the living landscape and the potential for landscape methodologies to influence urban development in ways that promote social and environmental sustainability. In addition to leading MVVA, he is currently the Charles Eliot Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design where he has taught since 1982. Van Valkenburgh is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. He was the recipient of the 2003 National Design Award in Environmental Design awarded by the Smithsonian Institution’s Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum.

http://www.mvvainc.com/

Diedrich Bruns

Dr. Diedrich Bruns, the current president of the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS), is the founding principal of ‘Landscape Ecology & Planning Consultants’. Since 1986 the firm has been a leader in ecological planning and design for urban and other cultural landscapes. Nature Development and flood risk management are areas of special expertise. In addition, since 1996, Diedrich Bruns is the Professor for Landscape Planning at the School of Architecture, Urban and Landscape Planning, Kassel University, Germany. Previous academic appointments were at the University of Toronto, Ont., Stuttgart University, Germany, and University of Minnesota, MN. His current research interests are on the planning methods for cultural landscapes in increasingly international urban societies.

http://cms.uni-kassel.de

Catharine Ward-Thompson

Catharine Ward-Thompson is a Professor at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) and the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on inclusive access to outdoor environments, environment-behaviour interactions, historic landscapes and contemporary needs, landscape design for older people, for children and for teenagers, and salutogenic environments. Since 2001, she has been Director of OPENspace – the research centre for inclusive access to outdoor environments – based at Edinburgh College of Art and Heriot-Watt University. See www.openspace.eca.ac.uk

She currently directs the I’DGO (Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors) research consortium, a collaboration with Salford and Oxford Brookes Universities focused on ensuring that the outdoor environment is designed inclusively and with sensitivity to the needs and desires of older people, to improve their quality of life (see www.idgo.ac.uk). She is also member of SPARColl, the Scottish Physical Activity Research Collaboration, led by Strathclyde University, contributing expertise on relationships between physical environment and health.

http://eca.academia.edu/CatharineWardThompson

Tracy Metz (discussion leader)

Tracy Metz has been a journalist with the Dutch daily newspaper NRC Handelsblad for twenty years, where she writes about architecture, landscape and urban design. She is also an international correspondent for Architectural Record and a contributor to Metropolis, Domus and Graphis. In both the Netherlands and the US she regularly lectures on topical planning issues ranging from leisure to water management. In addition to her work as a journalist, Metz has started moving into the sphere of policy-making and research. She was recently appointed as visiting scholar at the Netherlands Institute for Spatial Research, where she will be writing a book on the revitalization of downtowns in the US and Europe. She recently became a member of the Council on Rural Affairs, an independent advisory council to the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality.

http://nl.linkedin.com/pub/tracy-metz/5/410/a3b