Credits: 1 PDH-HSW
Instructor: Greg Miller, Principal Landscape Architect – MRWM Landscape Architects
A lot has changed over the past year and public landscapes are increasingly recognized for their role in ecological resilience, social justice, mental well-being, physical health, and economic stability. Designing spaces that grow and adapt is a hallmark of landscape architecture, but designing them to be truly elastic is what makes them timeless.
This presentation investigates the benefits of elasticity and plasticity in natural systems and explores ways to apply these lessons to the built environment. These strategies reinforce and amplify the effectiveness of landscapes in creating stronger and healthier communities.
Learning Objectives:
1. Gain an understanding of how elasticity and plasticity creates resilient natural systems.
2. Learn how to apply these principles to landscapes in the built environment.
3. Explore the possibilities of incorporating increasing elasticity to the profession of landscape architecture.
GREGORY MILLER, FASLA has twenty-three years of experience as a landscape architect and is a Principal with the firm MRWM Landscape Architects in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He has developed a design philosophy that integrates sustainable development trends with site specific ecological and human needs. This combination results in innovative projects that are functional, safe, accessible, aesthetically pleasing and environmentally responsible. He has recently been a speaker at national and regional conferences on topics including: inclusive play area design, the evolution of play environments, enriching landscapes with appropriate cultural design elements, designing public landscapes for maintenance, adaptive planting design strategies, and high efficiency irrigation design. Greg teaches Construction Materials as an adjunct professor in the MLA program at the University of New Mexico. He served as the National President of the American Society of Landscape Architects in 2018.