The MLA Curriculum Summit will begin tomorrow, Tuesday, May 17, at JPs. Hardcopies of the agenda and all team proposals will be available. Coffee, fruit and pastries will be available at 8:30. We will begin at 8:30 am.
LARCP Faculty End of Year Lunch and Meeting will begin on Wednesday, May 18, at JPs. All faculty and staff should attend. |
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OUR CONTRIBUTIONS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
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Students receiving awards during the 2016 APDesign Commencement ceremony include:
Landscape Architecture
ASLA Honor Award - Amanda Santoro and Erin Wilson
ASLA Merit Award - Lauren Heermann and Jared Sickmann
APDesign ARCC King Medal - Kim Kneifl
Sigma Lambda Alpha International Honor Society - Taylor Lininger, Amanda Santoro and Erin Wilson
KSU 2016 Landscape Architecture Foundation Olmsted Scholar - Beth Krehbiel
Dr. Robert P. Ealy Award - Jared Sickmann
MLA Outstanding Graduate Student Award - Erin Wilson
L.R. Quinlan Award - Parker Ruskamp
Outstanding MLA Research Award - Jared Sickmann
Regional & Community Planning
APDesign Sigma Tau Delta Medal - Everett Haynes
MRCP ARCC King Medal Nominee - Colin Victory
RCP Outstanding Master's Report - Colin Victory
AICP Outstanding Student Award - Jessica Weber
Associate Professor Katie Kingery-Page was invited back by The Wichita Art Museum to lecture on Landscapes for Art, this time for their docents, who will be integral in interpreting the museum's new 9-acre sculpture grounds on May 9.
The K-State Community Development Master's Program was honored with the Exceptional Credit Program Award
from the
Association of Continuing Higher Education
by Global Campus on May 3.
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A Student Competition in conjunction with the Landscape Architecture Foundation Summit calls for visual declarations about the future of landscape architecture. Information is available here. 20 images will be selected for display at the Summit. Submissions are due on May 23, 5 pm EST.
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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.
The Manhattan Historic Resource Board has two vacancies, one is filling Dede Brokesh's position. You can express your interest in the advisory board here.
Landscape Performance Education Grants
To help landscape architecture programs integrate landscape performance into their curriculum, LAF is offering five $2,500 mini-grants to faculty for the Fall 2016 term/semester. Participating faculty will work with LAF to develop and test models for integrating landscape performance into landscape architecture course offerings, such as research and methods, site planning and analysis, design studios, and other lecture or seminar courses. Materials developed through the grants will be shared on the Resources for Educators section of LandscapePerformance.org, which includes assignments, syllabi, faculty reflections, and other resources to help bring landscape performance into the classroom. Landscape performance is one of the Professional Curriculum topics in the revised 2016 LAAB Accreditation Standards.
Applications due: June 15, 2016
KaBOOM! is teaming up with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Target, Playworld, the U.S. Department for Housing and Urban Development, and the National Endowment for the Arts, to ensure that kids grow up with the childhood they deserve, filled with play. Beginning May 3, the Challenge will accept submissions from anyone who has an idea for how to turn everyday life and unexpected places - like sidewalks, bus stops, and vacant lots - into play spaces for kids across America. Click here for more information.
The Beach Museum of Art is sponsoring a unique art-science conversation on the prairie on July 15, 2016! K-State rangeland researcher Carol Blocksome received a grant from the Office of the Provost to put together a day of exploration for artists and scientists. The program will be held at the Konza Prairie barn, and keynote speaker Matthew Coolidge from the Culver City-based Center for Land Use Interpretation
(
clui.org) will share his experiences in the fertile zone between innovative science and engaged art practice.
More information is available here.
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UPCOMING PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEETINGS:
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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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MAY
17-18 LA Curriculum Summit, all day, JPs
21 Last day of 9 month contracts
23 Start of Summer Studio
JULY
15 Summer Studio ends
18 Start of Portfolio Design
AUGUST
5 Portfolio Design ends
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