Join us for ASLA-MN's Student Chapter Fundraiser!

Thursday, June 27, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Lovely home of:
Chris Behringer, ASLA-MN President-elect
3811 Bassett Creek Drive
Minneapolis, MN 55422

Guests will enjoy a BBQ and silent auction!

Recommended donation is $20.  You can register now at a rate of $20 and your fees will be donated to the student chapter or you can register for free and make your donation at the door.

Either way, help us plan and pre-register by Monday, June 24.

Click here to log in and register.

For the fifteenth consecutive year, DesignIntelligence is conducting annual surveys of America’s Best Architecture & Design Schools. If your firm hires landscape architects, you are invited to share your experiences and perspectives to strengthen design education. These annual rankings are today’s leading resource to rank architecture and design programs on the basis of their ability to prepare graduates for professional practice.

This short questionnaire will require approximately ten minutes to fill out. The responding party must be in a leadership position qualified to hire employees and must sign the survey. If you are not qualified to complete this questionnaire on your firm’s behalf, please forward it on to a more appropriate person. Individual responses will be kept confidential but a listing of the responding firms will be published. Participants will also recieve a summary report.

You may respond using our online survey by going to:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/landscapearchschools

Results will be published November 2013.  If you have any questions or comments, visit www.di.net for more information, or contact Margot Montouchet, Associate at Greenway Group at mpereboom@di.net or 678-879-0945.

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April is National Landscape Architecture Month!
Celebrate Our Profession and Be Part of the Story: Call for Public Service

It’s time to bring your good work to light. Celebrate National Landscape Architecture Month by sharing the good work of our profession.  The 2013 Year of Public Service (YPS2013) has been established by the ASLA Public Awareness Campaign to highlight the wide-reaching public-service activities readily performed by landscape architects and to advocate for a higher commitment by all to community service projects. ASLA invites current members to submit documentation of 2013 projects for review by the Public Awareness Campaign to highlight in the campaign’s resources and outreach. Descriptions, quotes and multimedia content may be used – with proper credit – on the YPS2013 website, blog and The Understory Facebook page.

Any project can be submitted where an ASLA member, chapter, or firm with ASLA members provides landscape architecture services at no cost benefit the community in some way. To submit your project, go to the YPS2013 national website and click “Submit Project.” A pre-populated email will pop up, requesting information such as descriptions, pictures, video, quotes and testimony. 

For members who are looking to join a public service project, reach out to our local ASLA-MN Chapter with your ideas, or contact Colleen O'Dell at designodell@gmail.com. We can facillitate connecting you to likeminded members to get a project started and recognized. For example, ASLA and the National Park Service Rivers, Trails, and Conservation Assistance program have augmented their ongoing collaborative partnership to celebrate ASLA’s Year of Public Service. Under this partnership, ASLA’s local chapters can volunteer in their communities to help NPS RTCA by providing technical assistance for such outdoor resources as trails, bike paths, and other recreational facilities targeted for support in 2013. You can also act on your own to help a project. Review those identified for 2013 here.

Learn more about the initiative on the YPS2013 website at http://asla.org/yps.aspx or join the conversation on Twitter by using #YPS2013.