LAEP Speaker Series
LAEP's Speaker Series is a fantastic opportunity to learn about the design of places and systems that shape our world. Anyone interested in how his or her life and career might be enhanced through learning about planning and design will enjoy attending. Students from Art, Graphic Design, Performance Art, Engineering, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, and Outdoor Product Development and Design are likely to be enlightened by this series.
Speakers include leaders in design professions who are making a difference. They are encouraged to answer the questions: “How am I, and the work I do, relevant?” The intent is that through these 40- minute talks, speakers will reveal problem-solving approaches in the creative process. Through visual examples of their own work, they share how this is accomplished.
The goal of the LAEP Speaker Series is to make the content of the presentations reveal problem-solving methods and the attitudes that support collaborative behavior. The underlying premise is that these qualities can be taught, and that seeing the results in the practice of designers is very beneficial to students and practitioners.
Spring 2024 Speaker Series Schedule
Lectures take place in FAV 150 on select Fridays at 3:30 p.m. Mountain Time
Past, Present, and Future of Bear Lake
Charrette Panel
Utah State University
Collaborative Design, Development & Financing of Commercial Property
Kurt Altvater
CBRE Senior Vice President
Reimagining the Streets
Justin Romeo
Director of Special Projects
Landscape Architecture's Dimensions
Todd Johnson, FASLA
Associate Professor at USU
Welcome to Scenario B: Lessons in survival from our national parks
Sarah Creachbaum
US National Park Services
Intersections of Practice: A Candid Conversation on Career Paths
Chris Creasey
Landscape Architecture within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers'
Past Speaker Series Talks
To make Speaker Series acessible to all, the talks are recorded by Utah State's Media Production Department. All talks can be viewed online and previous speakers will be listed below. If you need captions please reach out to laep.aggies.usu.edu.
- 9.15.23 - Designing for Multispecies Justice | Kirsten Vinyeta
- 9.22.23 - Under the Influence | Michael Budge
- 10.13.23 - New Strategies for Public Space | Jim Burnett
- 11.10.23 - Small Urban Gardens: Possibilities & Challenges| Mariana Rovzar
- 11.17.23 - The Transformative Power of Lighting | Pierre Lavoie
- 12.1.23 - Unveiling a Journey: A transformative Career | Becky Zimmerman
- 9.16.22 - Towards Regenerating Place Making | Patty Stevens
- 9.23.22 - Roberto Burle Marx and Forest Politics | Catherine Seavitt Nordenson
- 10.7.22 - Tactical Urbanism: Action Sports Recreation and the City | Mark van der Zalm
- 11.4.22 - Adapting to Change | Brad Howe
- 12.2.22 - Uncharted Waters: Creating Climate Capacity | Daniella Hirschfeld
- 1.20.23 - Panel Discussion: The Future of the Great Salt Lake | Charrette Panel
- 2.3.23 - Enduring Landscapes | Michael Boucher
- 3.17.23 - The Tenuous Renaissance in Playscape Design | Dan Jost
- 3.24.23 - Managing Muddy Methods | Sean Burkholder
- 3.31.23 - Leading with Landscape | Anna Cawrse and Joshua Brooks
- 4.21.23 - A Call to Action: The Great Salt Lake| Dave Livermore
- 9.10.21 - Landscape Architecture and Planning - Swipe Right | Margo Wheeler
- 9.24.21 - Lessons from a Landscape Architect Infiltrator | Greg Montgomery
- 10.22.21 - The Importance of Designing for Pollinators | Patricia Algara
- 10.29.21 - A Sense of Place: Site and Landscape Designs for Temples of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | Kevin Shields
- 11.12.21 - Full Scale Mockup: Practice Evolution | Elizabeth Kennedy | Craig Johnson Lecture
- 12.3.21 - The Statistical, Inferential Designer | Brent Chamberlain
- 1.24.22 - Developing (Through) an Equity Lens | Erin Clark
- 2.25.22 - New West: Lessons from Mid-Century | Wolfgang Wagener & Leslie Ergnanian
- 3.25.22 - Tales from the Field of a 20+ Year Bureau of Land Management Career | Allysia Angus
- 4.1.22 - The Business of Design | Sean Michael
- 4.8.22 - Re-Grounding: The Practice of PUBLIC WORK | Marc Ryan
- 4.15.22 - Green Dreams, or Whatever | Billy Fleming
- 9.18.20 - Frameworks for the Future | Kristina Hill | Craig Johnson Lecture
- 9.25.20 - Urgency to Act Now | Mia Lehrer
- 10.9.20 - Planning for Public Lands | Shannon Ellsworth
- 10.23.20 - The Big, the Small, the Here and There | Gene & Dorothy Dyer
- 11.6.20 - Sabbatical Experiences & Reflections | Caroline Lavoie
- 11.13.20 - A Family Affair | Steven Spears & Rebecca Leonard | Vern Budge Lecture
- 1.29.21 - Finding Inspiration: It's Here All Around Us | Carol Mayer-Reed
- 2.19.21 - Landscape Architecture Collaborations | Jereck Boss
- 3.5.21 - Optimism and Action | Gina Ford & Brie Hensold
- 3.26.21 - Practice-based Research for a Changing World | Anya Domlesky (Recording not available)
- 4.2.21 - Notes on Community Engagement, Leadership, and Social Change | C.L. Bohannon
- 4.16.21 - Insights on the Practice of Design | Bill Johnson | Vern Budge Lecture
- 9.13.19 - Planting Design and Vegetation Techniques in Anhalt, Germany | Wolfram Kircher
- 9.27.19 - Creating Resilent Urban Places | Forster Ndubsi | Craig Johnson Lecture
- 9.30.19 - Geodesign and Regional Coastal Planning | Carl Steinitz & Harry Dotson
- 10.4.19 - The Role of Beauty in Design | Phil Waite
- 10.25.19 - The Disneyland Effect: Theming and Experential Placemaking for the Built Environment and Beyond | Dave Gottwald
- 11.8.19 - Design: What Matters? | Stephanie Rolley
- 11.22.19 - Emerging Alumni Panel | Tyson Murray, McKenna Drew, Brett Hoffer, Stephanie Tomlin
- 1.24.20 - Design and Aloha | Simon Bussiere
- 2.7.20 - Utelite Lecture: Diversifying Forgotten Spaces to Become Community Places | Scott Jordan
- 2.21.20 - Segments: Similarities & Differences | Karen Phillips & Perry Howard
- 9.28.18 – Shifting Scales | Anna Cawrse
- 10.12.18 – Toward an Ecology of the City | Kurt Culbertson
- 10.26.18 – Collective Cognition | Heather Morgan & Todd Fein
- 11.9.18 – Designing Purposeful Interactions | Greg Walker
- 11.30.18 – Opportunities and Impact in Low-Income Communities | Jeremy Keele
- 12.7.18 – Reclaiming the Post-Industrial City | Shalae Larsen & Sharen Hauri
- 1.25.19 - Creating Conditions of Possibility | Keith Christensen
- 2.8.19 - Keys to Successful Approval Proccesses & Engaging the Public | Jared Carlon
- 2.22.19 - Planning, Diversity & Inclusion | Stacy Harwood
- 3.1.19 - The Aesthetic of Proof | Andrew Sargeant
- 3.22.19 - Meaningful Public Involvement | Zoe Rogich & Greg Graves
- 3.29.19 - Journey: Art, Discovery, Environment | Larry Kirkland | Craig Johnson Lecture
- 4.19.19 - Second Act | Jamie Maslyn Larson | Vern Budge Lecture
- 7.17.17 – A Love Affair with Design | Robb Berg
- 9.8.17 – Start, Design, Learn | Spencer Burt
- 9.22.17 – It's All Connected | Craig Johnson
- 10.6.17 – Building Stories | Jennifer Guthrie – Vern Budge Lecture
- 10.27.17 – The Ecology of Cities | Stephen Goldsmith
- 11.3.17 – Blake Wright
- 1.26.18 – Integrity of Place | Mike Albert
- 2.9.18 – Making Plans | Fritz Steiner – Craig Johnson Lecture
- 3.16.18 – Lawrence Halprin | Kenneth Helphand
- 3.30.18 – Where Do Ideas Come From? | Davorin Gazvoda
- 6.13.18 – Henry Beer – Vern Budge Lecture