Design for Freedom: Eliminating Forced Labor in the Building Materials Supply Chain

Registration Eligibility

ASLA online learning opportunities are open to all. ASLA members may purchase this presentation at a reduced rate. This is a 2024 conference session.

Start Date

10/21/2024

End Date

10/20/2026

Description

It is time to reimagine landscape architecture and join our architectural and engineering colleagues by raising awareness and inspiring responses to disrupt forced labor in the materials supply chain. Learn how this new movement is mobilizing leaders, and how you can participate to design and build a more humane future.

Distance Learning

Yes

Course Equivalency

Subjects

Business Practices / Contracts / HR

Health, Safety and Welfare

Yes

Hours

1.25

Learning Outcomes

Learn how the material choices we make and specify have both a sustainable environmental impact and a social one, for the people manufacturing and producing these products.; Learn about forced labor associated with common material choices in the built environment and how we can work to improve our material selections.; Learn through pilot projects and case studies how our ethical design and material choices can educate our local cities and towns to modify their building codes.; Learn the relevant certifications and standards that we as professionals should be aware of when researching and specifying products, and how we can collaborate with product manufacturers to ensure ethical sourcing.

Instructors

Louis Fusco; Sharon Prince; Amy Syverson-Shaffer

Course Codes

Provider

American Society of Landscape Architects

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