Coming soon, view the richly edited videos of the dynamic presentations at Soak It Up, the recent daylong conference about urban water management featuring international leaders in landscape architecture.
For one month only—April 1–30—watch the conference videos on PlayCore’s CORE Professional Development Hub and get free LA CES credits. This offer is only available through PlayCore.
Inspired by the late Oberlander Prize winner Kongjian Yu, global champion of the “sponge cities” concept for addressing urban flooding, the Soak It Up conference demonstrates how landscape architects address the herculean task of managing the 51-mile long Los Angeles River, which flows through the nation’s second-largest metropolitan region, past the world’s two busiest ports, and into the Pacific Ocean.
Recorded on December 5, 2025, this conference featured recent Oberlander Prize winner Mario Schjetnan, as well as leading landscape architects from Los Angeles and around the world, including China, Mexico, and the Netherlands. In these videos, speakers explore why landscape architects should be at the forefront of designing for urban flooding—rethinking risk and transforming constraints into opportunities through innovative and entrepreneurial water management strategies.
Registration opens March 16th.
