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The gazing dome in Prof Canfield's Green Without Greed garden in France shows welcome signs of  wear from the thousands of visitors who enjoyed her design during the 2014 International Garden Festival.

Landscape Architecture and Regional & Community Planning
MONDAY MEMO 01.19.15
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Tuesday, January 20, RCP Distinguished Lecture by Commissioner Mitch Silver has been cancelled due to his inability to travel.

There will be an All College Forum on January 23 at 10 am in the K-State Union Forum hall with updates on the Seaton enhancement project. 

 

OUR CONTRIBUTIONS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Associate Professor Katie Kingery-Page and Associate Professor and librarian Thomas Bell are guest curators for the Dinner and Mid-Night Snack: Gifts of Contemporary Works on Paper from Donald J. Mrozek and R. Scott Dorman at the Beach Museum. Click here for more information.
 
Assistant Professor Huston Gibson showcased his newly developed course for the K-State Online Essentials course Show & Tell session on January 16.

MLA Students in Associate Professor Kingery-Page's Creative Placemaking Master's Project and Report Umbrella Group participated in a January 16 design charrette to design a pop up park. The event was sponsored by the Wichita Downtown Development Corporation and the Knight Foundation.

Assistant Professors Huston Gibson and Jessica Canfield shared powerful messages on how landscape architecture and regional & community planning professionals can impact the future with visiting high school students and families on January 17.

Department Head Stephanie Rolley will chair the President's Council meeting of landscape architecture professional societies (ASLA, CELA, CLARB, CSLA, LAAB) on January 22 and the Landscape Architecture Accreditation Board meeting on January 23-24 in Washington, D.C. 
OF INTEREST

Information about the Working With Industry Boot Camp is available here.

 

The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning

55th Annual Conference 2015 is calling for papers and posters. Click here for more information.


The APA Quad States Meeting, hosted by KCAPA, will take place October 21-23, 2015. 

 

The Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences Conference 2015 is soliciting conference proposals. Click here for more information.


 The Department of Landscape Architecture at Washington University is hosting Design/Build Summer 2015 in Croatia. Click here for more information.

 

A coalition of faculty at Colorado's two leading centers for planning research are looking to fill two funded PhD Research Assistantships within the  PhD program in Design and Planning at the University of Colorado Denver in the fields of urban sustainability and environmental resilience. Click here for more information.


 

The Aggieville Business Association is hosting a Blood Drive, January 27. Sign up here for the Pint for a Pint campaign.
  

MANHATTAN COMPREHENSIVE PLAN 
UPDATE PROJECT MEETING DATES
Thurs
Jan 29
5:30-7 pm,
 
City Commission Room
UPCOMING PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEETINGS
 
KS APA SymposiumMar 6, 2015Manhattan, KS
GP IDEA ConferenceMar 30-31, 2015Omaha, NE
CECD SymposiumApr 7, 2015K-State
APAApr 18-22, 2015Seattle, WA
ASLA Central StatesApr 22-24, 2015Oklahoma City, OK
APA Quad-States MeetingOct 21-23, 2015Kansas City, MO
ACSP MeetingOct 23-24, 2015Houston, TX
ASLA MeetingNov 7-9, 2015Chicago, IL
EVENTS & DEADLINES

January 

 

22 No LARCP meeting

 

23 APDesign Forum, 10am, Forum Hall

 

29 LARCP meeting 

 

29 Matthew Urbanski Ekdahl Lecture, 4pm, K-State Union Little Theater

 

30 LARCP Colloquium, Tim Keane, 4:30pm, Seaton 106c

 

February

 

3 APDesign McElwee Faculty Teaching Award Nomination Deadline

 

5 Dinner and midnight snack opening reception, Beach Museum of Art, 5-7 pm 

 

9, 11, 13 Master's Report Mid-Crit Reviews, Seaton 106c

 

10 Design Workshop virtual internship information session, information, 7 MST

 

12 In-gallery programming featuring artists from K-State

 

20 LARCP Colloquium, Andrea Hansen, 4:30pm, Seaton 106c, anticipated 

 

MARCH

2 FDA and USRG applications due

 

2-5 RCP Faculty Search Interviews, anticipated

 

6 KS APA Symposium, Manhattan, KS

 

9 Design Expo, Alumni Center, 10-3pm

 

9 Design Expo, Same day interviews, 3-7 pm

 

10 Design Expo, Next day Interviews

 

11-13 Field Trips

2nd Year NB MLA, Boston, MA

MLA/MRCP Portland, OR

 

12 In-gallery programming featuring artists from K-State

 

25-30 CELA 2015, K-State


 

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