"On June 10-11, 2016, the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) convened a diverse group of preeminent and emerging leaders for The New Landscape Declaration: A Summit on Landscape Architecture and the Future. Inspired by LAF’s 1966 Declaration of Concern, the Summit featured 25 “Declarations” from key thought leaders and nine thematic panels, taking a hard look at whether the landscape architecture profession has fulfilled its promise and how effect change looking toward the future.

Through interview footage and clips from the Summit, this documentary highlights key themes from this critical, provocative, and inspirational examination of the role of landscape architecture in addressing the challenges our our time and the next 50 years."

Airport Landscape: Urban Ecologies in the Aerial Age Conference

Moderated by: Pierre Bélanger, Harvard GSD

Panelists:
Nina-Marie Lister, Ryerson University
Susanne Bauer, Goethe University Frankfurt
Nils Güttler, University of Erfurt/ Martina Schlünder, University of Toronto
Steven Barrett, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Suleiman Osman, George Washington University

Using design to re-imagine new ways of living sustainably in the years ahead will play a key role in building smarter cities. What innovative design ideas are changing behaviours for the better?

Moderated by Rahul Bhardwaj, President and CEO, Toronto Community Foundation

Panelists:
Renée Daoust, Founder, Daoust Lestage Inc.
Luigi Ferrara, Director, Institute Without Boundaries
Nina-Marie Lister, Associate Professor, Ryerson University
John Lawrence, Director, Corporate Social Responsibility, Walmart Canada

Explore the relationship between landscape, ecology, and urbanism as Associate Professor Nina-Marie Lister addresses these critical questions. A tenured associate professor at Ryerson University, Dr. Lister specializes in ecology and environmental planning. For more in this series visit www.humansandnature.org.