Registration Eligibility
ASLA online learning opportunities are open to all. ASLA members may purchase this presentation at a reduced rate. This is a 2025 conference session.
Start Date
10/20/2025
End Date
10/20/2027
Description
Through the lens of ecological memory, emerging approaches blend foundational restoration principles with innovations in landscape form, posing the question: What can we learn from plant competition dynamics, wildlife habitat forms, migration patterns, soil processes, and adaptation processes to respond to today’s biodiversity crisis and create and maintain resilient landscapes?
Distance Learning
Yes
Course Equivalency
No
Subjects
Sustainable Development & Design
Health, Safety and Welfare
Yes
Hours
1.25
Learning Outcomes
Learn how biodiversity can be restored and maintained in the public realm through creative and innovative approaches to landscape restoration, through the lens of ecological memory.; Examine a variety of novel ecosystem restoration techniques and foundational design principles that meet community, biodiversity, and habitat goals while responding to degraded and denuded landscape form and function.; Discover an approach that embraces invasive species as ecological niche indicators of innovation potential, learning “nature hacks” that lead to functional plant communities and foster beneficial ecological memory.; Examine innovations in regenerative soil function and adaptive operations and management of native landscapes and public gardens.
Instructors
Tom Smarr ; Claudia West
Course Codes
Provider
American Society of Landscape Architects