MON-DD-001: Land and Labor: Toward Greater Recognition and Collaboration Between Designers and Crews

Monday, November 14, 2022

9:00am – 11:30am PT

Location: Moscone Center, Room 304

2.50 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AIA/HSW, AICP, FL, NY/HSW
Ticket Price: $25 per person

Lead Speaker(s)

Jennifer A. Jones, ASLA

Partner
Terremoto
Los Angeles, California

Speaker(s)

William Krimmel

Founder + Ecologist
Miridae
Sacramento, California
Michelle A. Franco, ASLA

Assistant Professor
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio
Jessie Salazar, ASLA

President
SLA
Lynwood, California
Maegan Ortiz (she/her/hers)

Executive Director
Instituto de Educación Popular del Sur de California (IDEPSCA)
Los Angeles, California

We’ll examine how to bridge the unspoken divide between “professional”’ design workers and the manual labor of crews who build these projects. We’ll cover the social, cultural, and economic factors shaping this issue and explore what alternative approaches—both within firms and on projects—can look like.

Learning Outcomes:

Outline the wider social, cultural, environmental and economic context framing the issue of devaluing and under-recognizing the labor of landscape workers.
Present alternative models of practice that landscape design firms and construction companies are pursuing to address this topic, and present examples of better practice in recognition, compensation, and benefits of crews.
Better understand how these issues show up on projects and with clients, and how landscape architects can start to address them.
Empower audience members with an understanding of first steps they can take to start to address this issue within their firms and on projects
Draw out the connections and implications that devaluing the work of landscape crews has on our environment and ecology.
Gather the results of these discussions into a resource that could be more widely distributed