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The LARCP Faculty Meeting will be held in Seaton 133 this week--please plan to arrive at 12:30, if not before.
The City of Kansas City, MO is launching a design competition to develop visions for a new linear park in the Northland on April 25. You can
read more information here.
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OUR CONTRIBUTIONS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
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Associate Professor Blake Belanger will present
Representing Resilience: Design Strategies and Graphic Communication for Increasing Urban Resilience at the 2016 Central States ASLA meeting in Little Rock, Arkansas, April 15, 2016.
Professor Stephanie Rolley was an invited panelist
at the Greater Kansas City American Society for Public Administrations' Facing the Future: Leveraging Parks and Green Space for Long-Term Prosperity forum in Kansas City, April 7, 2105.
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Two PBS shows addressing important landscape architecture and planning locations will debut in April. "
10 Parks That Changed America" airs nationally on April 12 at 7:00 pm on KTWU. "10 Towns That Changed America" airs on April 19 at 7:00 pm on KTWU. Each of the shows will be rebroadcast throughout the week of their airing.
The KS APA Spring 2016 Symposium, hosted by the City of Wichita, will take place Friday, April 22. This all day event, from 8am to 4pm (lunch will be at the food trucks in the popup park!) will include a bike tour. There will also be an evening reception for those who wish to stay. APA KS will reimburse any student travelers for gas money (as long as they carpool with a minimum of 3 in a vehicle).
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joint effort of Beach Museum of Art, PSI, Office of Vice President for Research, and LARCP. This is a part of Associate Professor Katie Kingery-Page's scholarly activity related to informal learning):
Open to Public
Global Food Systems Research Science Communication Symposium April 28, 2016. Presentations by graduate
students and post-doctoral research team members begin at 2 pm. Keynote talk by artist and National Geographic photo-essayist Jim Richardson on the Origins of Agriculture begins at 4:30 pm, Beach Museum of Art, UMB auditorium.
Kansas City Design Week 2016 will take place
April 7 - 16 and will be filled with exciting events and experiences that will inspire you to take the next step in your creative journey, wherever you are and wherever you're headed.
Registration is open now
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The Landscape Architecture Foundation Summit on Landscape Architecture and the Future will take place at the University of Pennsylvania, June 10-11, 2016. The Summit marks 50 years since Ian McHarg and other leading landscape architects composed LAF's seminal Declaration of Concern, which decried the burgeoning environmental crisis and heralded landscape architecture as critical to help solve it. Building on this legacy, this one-time historic gathering will culminate in a redrafting of the original 1966 Declaration of Concern and a landmark publication of the ideas presented. Registration is open now, early bird registration ends April 1.
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UPCOMING PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEETINGS:
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April 13-15, 2016 |
Little Rock, AR |
| KS APA Spring Symposium |
April 22, 2016 |
Wichita, KS |
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PGASLA Awards
Public lecture Friday evening,
Walking tour and awards lunch on Saturday
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April 22-23, 2016 |
Manhattan, KS |
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June 1-4, 2016
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Chicago, IL
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June 10-11, 2016
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Philadelphia, PA
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| IMCL Conference |
June 13-17, 2016 |
Rome, Italy |
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June 13 - 15, 2016
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San Jose, CA
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July 3-8, 2016
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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| ECLAS |
Sept. 11-14, 2016 |
Rapperswill, Switzerland |
| ASLA |
October 21-24, 2016 |
New Orleans, LA |
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October 27-30, 2016
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Canberra, Australia |
ACSP
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November 3-6, 2016
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Portland, OR
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APRIL
11-13-15 Master's Project and Report Defense,
14 LARCP faculty meeting, 12:30-1:30 pm, Seaton 133,
21 RCP Faculty Meeting
21 APDesign Scholarship Reception
22 Kansas APA Symposium, Wichita, KS
22 ASLA President Elect Vaughn Rinner, 1:30-2:30 pm, presentation to students, all welcome, location TBD
22 PGASLA Go See It! Lecture, 6:30 pm, Discovery Center
23 PGASLA Walking Tour, 8:30-11:00 am, K-State Campus
23 PGASLA Awards Presentation and Luncheon, 11:30 am-2:00 pm, Beach Museum of Art
28 Global Food Systems Research Science Communication Symposium, 2 & 4:30 pm, UMB auditorium,
28 No LARCP Faculty Meeting
MAY
5 LARCP Faculty Meeting
12 No LARCP Faculty Meeting
17-18 LA Curriculum Summit, all day, JPs
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