Lectures and Events
Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
Spring 2026 Lecture Series
Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
The lectures take place in Burns Auditorium at 6 pm.
Please come support our lectures and events! Recordings will be posted to this page when available. Each lecture typically lasts for an hour, followed by Q + A and a brief discussion. Many speakers will extend their visits to campus to participate in design studio reviews and brown bag lunch sessions with students and faculty.
CEU’s will be provided for these lectures.
Spring 2026 Lecture Series
This Spring’s theme is The Expanded Field of Community, which explores how the meaning of community is being redefined to include not only human settlements, but also our interdependence with the planet and the complex systems we rely upon. The theme highlights opportunities to address climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental inequities through design and planning strategies at local to global scales.
Past Lectures
Fall 2025 Lectures
The Overlooked Landscape: Reimagining Roofs and Discovering Purpose Above Ground
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Community-Led Relocation in an Era of Climate Change: Lessons from 20 Years of Research and Practices
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Nature, Community and Recovery: Our Role After Disaster
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There and Back Again: Mountains to Sea in the Southeast
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Spring 2025 Lectures
2024 lectures
Landscape Fieldwork: How Engaging the World Can Change Design
Geoparks and the Regional Scale of the Landscape: Cities for a Better Future
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After the Storm: Diverse perspectives on climate justice and recovery in North Carolina in the wake of Hurricane Helene
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The Fullness of Land: Landscape Design Inspired by Ecology and Culture
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Designing for People and Planet: a Great Time to be a Landscape Architect
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Grounded Landscapes: The Exploration of Land and Culture
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2022 lectures
NCSU ASLA Student Award Winners
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The Nature Effect: How Parks and the Public Realm Contribute to Healthy Communities
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Luck, Glamour, Passion, and Prestige (and why they’re all a fallacy)
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Design as an Act of Seeing and Creating
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Regional and Specific: Experiments in Scale and Time
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Landscapes and Memory
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2021 lectures
From What to Why
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Reconnecting with Overlooked Legacies
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Updating Arcadia in Landscape Planning
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Finding the Missing Landscape
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Envisioning the Planetary
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Climate Positive Design: Going Beyond Neutral
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Challenging Lawn Order: Barriers, Bylaws and the Biophilic City
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Return to Community: Designing for Community Wealth Building
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Previous Lecture Events
- DesignWeek [2018]: Opening Panel, Mark Johnson, CEO Civitas
- The Annual Victor Stanley Lecture: Friday, 9/22 + Saturday event morning event at JC Raulston Dr. James Hitchmough
- The Annual Richard Bell Lecture: Wednesday, October 11 | James Burnett, FASLA
- The First Annual Lewis Clarke Lecture: Wednesday, November, 17 | Linda Jewell, FASLA
- Thomas Woltz, FASLA, Nelson Byrd Woltz, “Master Planning Urban Parks in the 21st Century”
- Michelle Delk, ASLA, “Snøhetta Habitations”
- Gina Ford, ASLA, Sasaki Associates, “Micro, Macro, Mega, and Moore Square: Designing Landscapes of Urban Change.”
- Paul Morris, FASLA, President and CEO of the Atlanta Beltline, “The Atlanta Beltline: Changing the Landscape for the Metro Atlanta Region.”
- Justin Martin, author, “Fredrick Law Olmsted: the Accidental Renaissance Man.”
- Daniel Winterbottom, University of Washington, FASLA, Professor of Landscape Architecture, “Sticks and Stones May Heal our Bones: Rebuilding Community.”
- Annette Wilkus, FASLA, RLA, LEED, AP, SiteWorks, SiteWorks, “Building New York’s Next of Parks.”
- Kenny Helphand, FASLA, Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Oregon, “Larry Halprin: Performance Artist.”
- Gary Findell, FiNe Construction Solution, “A Landscape Architect in Haiti – Cultural Challenges in Building Community … or Anything Else.”
- Robin Moore and Nilda Cosco, NCSU, Natural Learning Initiative, “Landscape Design as a Health Intervention.”
- Jeff Carney, Director LSU Coastal Sustainability Studio, “Delta Building: Design in an Indeterminate Landscape.”
- Gary Hilderbrand, FASLA, Reed Hilderbrand, “Visible Invisible.”
- Matthew Urbanski, MVVA, FASLA, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, “New Parks for the Reinvented City.”
- Charles A. Flink, FASLA, “WalkBikeNC: The Evolution of North Carolina Transportation.”
- Matthew Tomasulo, CityFabric, “Entrpreneurial Urbanism.”
- Warren T. Byrd, Jr., Nelson Byrd Woltz, “Meandering with Purpose: Research, Practice.”