Schedule / Conference and Reception

Thursday, October 3

6:00-8:00pm

Opening Reception

Nasher Sculpture Center
Separate registration required
 

Friday, October 4
Horchow Auditorium, Dallas Museum of Art

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7:30-8:30am

Registration
8:30-8:40

Introduction

Charles A. Birnbaum, FASLA, FAAR, President & CEO, The Cultural Landscape Foundation

8:40-8:50

Welcome and Opening Remarks

8:50-9:20

Foundations for Change

Charles A. Birnbaum, FASLA, FAAR, President & CEO, The Cultural Landscape Foundation

9:20-10:20

Setting the Stage: Creating a Shared Language for the City’s Landscape Architecture

Peter Ker Walker, Principal, (firm of) Peter Ker Walker
James Burnett, FASLA, President, OJB Landscape Architecture
Peter Walker, FASLA, Partner, PWP Landscape Architecture
10:20-10:50

Break

10:50-12:20pm

Panel I: Transforming the Downtown Core

Moderator:
Amy M. Meadows, President, Parks for Downtown Dallas
        
Panelists:
Isabel Castilla, ASLA, Principal, James Corner Field Operations
Christine E. Ten Eyck, FASLA, President, Ten Eyck Landscape Architects
Ken Haines, ASLA, Principal, Hargreaves Associates
Chuck McDaniel, FASLA, Managing Principal, Dallas, SWA

12:20-1:45

Lunch  (On your own)

1:45-3:10

Panel II:  Transforming and Connecting the City

Moderator:
Gail Thomas, Ph.D., Hon. AIA, Director, Center for the City of The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture      

Panelists:
Brent A. Brown, AIA, CEO & President, Trinity Park Conservancy
Janette Monear, President & CEO, Texas Trees Foundation
Philip C. Henderson, FAIA, Board Trustee, Circuit Trail Conservancy

3:10-3:30

Break
3:30-4:50

Closing Panel: Reflections on the Day

Moderator:
Mark Lamster, Architecture Critic, The Dallas Morning News

Panelists:
Willis C. Winters, Director, Dallas Park and Recreation
Dustin Bullard, ASLA, Senior Vice President of Planning and Public Space., Downtown Dallas, Inc.
Veletta Forsythe Lill, Hon. AIA, Civic Leader, Fair Park First
Robert W. Decherd, Chairman, President and CEO, A. H. Belo Corporation

4:50-5:00pm

Closing Remarks
 

Saturday, October 5

8:30am-1:30pm

Tours and Mobile Workshops

Throughout Dallas
Separate registration required

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