On Saturday, October 17 and Sunday October 18, please join landscape architects and designers; clients, advocates, and activists; elected officials and citizens for one (or more) small, outdoor, socially distant site tours of landscapes throughout our region.
Prioritizing issues of climate and health, equity and resilience, each tour will discuss ideas and implementation as they explore these landscapes together. Each tour will also be recorded and shared online. A few weeks later, we'll "gather" again indoors, electronically, in a Zoom-type format to share highlights and reflect on larger themes, lessons learned, and advocacy agendas ahead.
The site tours are FREE to participants; registration is requested. Please register for a ticket for each tour that you want to attend.
Tour size will be kept small. All sites are open to the public. Masks and social distance are essential, along with adherence to state and local guidance on outdoor gatherings. Extra masks and hand sanitizer will be provided on-site. Due to pandemic precautions, all food/drink on your own.
BSLA is pursuing LA CES accreditation for each tour (in-person and online recordings).
The latest on the weather forecast:
THE WESTERN MASS TOURS ARE STICKING WITH THE ORIGINAL DATE OF SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, EVEN IF IT IS WET IN THE MORNING. Wear boots! and if we're lucky we'll see Pulaski Park's stormwater garden in action.
THE BOSTON TOURS ARE USING THE RAIN DATE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, RAIN OR SHINE (the forecast promises rain AND shine)
IN WESTERN MASS:
9am
Pine Grove Restoration Project, Northampton
Led by Jeff Squire, Berkshire Design Group
and Wayne Feiden, Director of Planning and Sustainability, City of Northampton
winner of a 2020 Commonwealth of Massachusetts MVP action grant
11am
Pulaski Park, Northampton
Led by Sara Lawrence, STIMSON
and Owen Wormser, Western Mass Pollinator Network
a 2018 BSLA Design Award winner
(1pm - lunch on your own. There are great options in Northampton and in Holyoke.)
2pm
Valley Arena Park, Holyoke
Led by Carlos Nieto, Berkshire Design Group
Sarah Meier-Zimbler, Director of Development, Holyoke Housing Authority
Neil Schofield, Sovereign Consulting environmental engineers
and
Marcos Marrero, Director of Planning and Economic Development, City of Holyoke
Also happening Saturday...
On Saturday, October 17, from 10am-ish until dusk, Carolina Aragon, ASLA, Rob Gilmore / Gilmore Landscape Architecture, Patrick Bowler, and a team of UMass Amherst LARP students along with other designer and community volunteers will be installing a large, site specific public art project at Fort Point Channel, Boston.
FutureSHORELINE is an evocative water- and land-based installation that will show the 1% chance flood for this area, along with an artful suggestion of climate adaptation in the landscape. If you're nearby, stop by. Click for details.
NEW! Now on
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18 (forecast: partly sunny)
IN THE BOSTON AREA:
10am
Kincaide Park, Quincy
Led by Scott Bishop, Bishop Land Design
(Noon - lunch on your own. There are great options in Quincy Center.)
1pm
Hancock Adams Common, Quincy
Led by Richard Houghton, Halvorson | Tighe & Bond Studio
a 2020 BSLA Design Award winner
3pm
Neponset Greenway, Milton/Mattapan
Led by Deneen Crosby, Crosby | Schlesinger | Smallridge
and Stella Lensing, Senior Project Manager, Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation
This fall "un-conference" is a pilot, in preparation for a larger Inside/Out series of on-site workshops in landscapes across Massachusetts and Maine next spring.
Inside/Out is organized by the Boston Society of Landscape Architects in collaboration with the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy and the landscape architecture program at Northeastern University, the Boston Architectural College School of Landscape Architecture, UMass Amherst Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, and the Portland Society for Architecture.
Inside/Out is sponsored by
Are you interested in supporting Inside/Out, advertising in this year's Fieldbook, or other ways of getting your business in front of the eyes of the BSLA audience? Contact the chapteroffice@bslanow.org.
