Webinar Archive
Below is a list of recordings from past webinars, which cover various aspects of landscape performance.
These free distance learning opportunities are hosted by the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) and feature guest presenters. They may be viewed at any time, and some are approved for Professional Development Hours (PDHs) through the Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System (LA CES). Recordings are organized by category. Clicking the link will redirect to the LAF website where the webinar materials and LA CES information, if applicable, are housed.
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Landscape Performance Evaluation Process
Insights from LAF’s Case Study Investigation Program
The Landscape Architecture Foundation’s Case Study Investigation (CSI) program supports faculty-student research teams who work with designers to assess and document the performance of sustainable landscape projects as Case Study Briefs. In these annual webinars, participants from the CSI program present their process and most compelling findings from their efforts to quantify environmental, social, and economic benefits.
2024 CSI Finale Webinars
Water and Resilience
Recorded October 29, 2024
Running time: 59 min
Projects featured: Mission Creek Stormwater Park, San Francisco, CA; Southwest Resiliency Park, Hoboken, NJ; Waterloo Park, Austin, TX
Designed Destinations
Recorded November 5, 2024
Running time: 60 min
Projects featured: Muscota Marsh, New York, NY; Bud and Susie Rogers Garden at the Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH; California Academy of Sciences Green Roof, San Francisco, CA
Inclusive Spaces
Recorded November 20, 2024
Running time: 58 min
Projects featured: South Oak Cliff Renaissance Park, Dallas, TX; Power to Be Basecamp, Victoria, British Columbia; Boston Children’s Hospital Master Plan & Implementation, Boston, MA
2023 Finale Webinars
Places for People
Recorded September 19, 2023
Running time: 60 min
Projects featured: Story Mill Community Park, Bozeman, MT; Moore Square Park, Raleigh, NC; Environmental + Natural Resources 2 Building, Tucson, AZ
Midwestern Gems
Recorded October 10, 2023
Running time: 59 min
Projects featured: Rose Run Corridor, Phase 1, New Albany, OH; Monon Boulevard and Midtown Plaza, Carmel, IN; Cortex Commons, St. Louis, MO
On the Water
Recorded November 29, 2023
Running time: 62 min
Projects featured: Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston, MA; St. Pete Pier, St. Petersburg, FL
2022 CSI Finale Webinars
Part 1: Resilience-Focused Projects
Recorded July 27, 2022
Running time: 72 min
Projects featured: Gulf State Park Master Plan & Phase 1, Gulf Shores, AL; Suining South Riverfront Park, Suining City, Sichuan, China; Houston Arboretum and Nature Center, Phase 1, Houston, TX; Dune Peninsula at Point Defiance, Tacoma, WA
Part 2: Health-Focused Projects
Recorded July 29, 2022
Running time: 57 min
Projects featured: Bendigo Hospital, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia; STLCC Forest Park Center for Nursing and Advanced Health Sciences, St. Louis, MO; Dequindre Cut Greenway, Detroit, MI
Part 3: People-Focused Projects
Recorded August 5, 2022
Running time: 56 min
Projects featured: El Paso Pedestrian Pathways, El Paso, TX; The Rail Park, Phase 1, Philadelphia, PA; Xuhui Runway Park, Shanghai, China
2021 CSI Finale Webinars
Part 1
Recorded August 3, 2021
Running time: 58 min
Projects featured: Te Whariki Subdivision Stage 1 & 2, Lincoln, Canterbury, New Zealand; Frédéric-Back Park at Saint-Michel Environmental Complex, Montreal, QC; Salesforce Transit Center Park, San Francisco, CA; University of Miami Lakeside Village, Coral Gables, FL; Winslow Farms Conservancy, Hammonton, NJ
Part 2
Recorded August 5, 2021
Running time: 59 min
Projects featured: Cornell Tech Campus, New York, NY; Lafitte Greenway, New Orleans, LA; Scioto Mile and Greenways, Columbus, OH; University of Toronto Scarborough Valley Land Trail, Toronto, ON
2020 CSI Finale Webinar
Recorded August 5, 2020
Running time: 136 min
Projects featured: Arizona State University Orange Mall Green Infrastructure Project, Phase 1, Tempe, AZ; Duke University Water Reclamation Pond, Durham, NC; Potomac Science Center, Woodbridge, VA; Kansas State University Memorial Stadium Green Roofs, Manhattan, KS; South Eveleigh Community Rooftop Garden and Sydney Park Water Re-use Project, Sydney, Australia; Liberty Bank Building, Seattle, WA; Fog Water Farm Park and Gardens, Informal Community of Eliseo Collazos, Lima, Peru
2019 CSI Finale Webinar
Recorded August 5, 2019
Running time: 91 min
Projects featured: Block Island Wind Farm, New Shoreham, RI; Hardscrabble Wind Power Project, Fairfield, NY; Yanaguana Garden, San Antonio, TX; Buffalo Bayou Park, Houston, TX; Regenstein Learning Campus at the Chicago Botanic Garden, Chicago Riverwalk, and Argyle Shared Street, Chicago, IL; Eagle View Camp, Mara Naboisho Conservancy, Kenya; Chatham University Eden Hall Campus, Richland Township, PA; Glenstone, Potomac, MD; Eda U. Gerstacker Grove, Ann Arbor, MI; Depot Park, Gainesville, FL
2018 CSI Finale Webinar
Recorded August 6, 2018
Running time: 53 min
Projects featured: P Street Corridor, Lincoln, NE; Tom Hanafan River’s Edge Park, Council Bluffs, IA; West Point Foundry Preserve, Cold Spring, NY; Hunter’s Point South Waterfront Park, Queens, NY; Historic Fourth Ward Park Phase 1, Atlanta, GA; University of Georgia Science Learning Center, Atlanta, GA; The Sandlot, Baltimore, MD
Designing for Performance
The Living Architecture Performance Tool
Recorded April 23, 2018
The Living Architecture Performance Tool (LAPT) is a new rating system and resource created to assure stakeholders that living architecture projects will achieve certain measurable and replicable performance benefits. This webinar will introduce the LAPT, discuss its structure and compliance process, and identify the ways that different stakeholders might use the tool as it enters its pilot phase.
Speakers: David Yocca, FASLA, Green Infrastructure Foundation; Rohan Lilauwala, Green Infrastructure Foundation
Running time: 66 min
Designing for Performance: Segmental Concrete Pavements
Recorded February 27, 2018
When appropriately designed, constructed and maintained, segmental paving can create vibrant social spaces, manage stormwater, mitigate the urban heat island effect, increase safety, and save on capital and maintenance costs. This webinar presents information to design for and ensure long-term performance of these systems, estimate environmental performance, and conduct a life-cycle cost analysis.
Speaker: David R. Smith, Interlocking Concrete Pavement Institute
Running time: 65 min
Integrating Performance into Design Education and Practice
Practice Based Research: Operationalizing Landscape Performance
Recorded March 20, 2014
Leading-edge design firms are incorporating landscape performance research into their everyday practice. From SmithGroupJJR’s WaterScore metric to Design Workshop’s measurement tools backpack to OLIN’s Knowledge Base, learn why, how, and what these firms are investing in to gather baseline data, set performance objectives, evaluate and disseminate performance of built projects.
Speakers: Allyson Mendenhall, PLA, Design Workshop; Deb Mitchell, FASLA, PLA, SmithGroupJJR; Skip Graffam, ASLA, PLA, OLIN
Running time: 60 min (plus 30 min Q&A)