Kentucky Chapter of ASLA Annual Meeting 2025
Schedule
Thu, 17 Apr, 2025 at 12:00 pm to Fri, 18 Apr, 2025 at 05:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Limestone Hall | Lexington, KY

About this Event
Landscape Architects are collaborators by nature. Their ability to visualize, communicate, and design helps them work in concert with allied professionals in order to harmonize the relationships between people, nature, and the built environment.
Join us April 17th and 18th at the Limestone Hall in Lexington for the ASLA KY Annual conference, where this year we are going ALL IN - championing the diversity of skills across our profession, embracing our shortcomings, and celebrating the sucessses of Landscape Architecture in Kentucky.
Thursday 4/17 Agenda
Sketch Crawl
Host: Carolina Segura Bell, MArch, MCP, Senior Lecturer UKLA
Info: Join the group for a walking tour around Lexington while stretching your sketching skills. The session host will give tips and tricks to help improve your on-the-go drawings skills. At the end of the tour, sketchbooks will be reviewed as a group during a discussion about struggles and successes. (0.5 CEU)
Site Tour: Huntertown Community Interpretive Park
Host: Jayoung Koo, PhD, MEM, MLA, Associate Professor UKLA
Info: This site tour will be at Huntertown Community Interpretive Park in Versailles, Woodford County. During this presentation, participants will learn about Huntertown's history that lead to the design of the park, the interpretive wayfinding signage system, the environmental considerations accounted for in the design, and the impacts of the project. (1 CEU)
Site Tour: Gatton Park
Info: (1 CEU)
Vendor Fair and Happy Hour
Keynote Presentation
Info: (1 CEU)
Friday 4/18 Agenda
Gatton Park Discussion
Info: We will have a discussion on the unique features of Gatton Park on the Town Branch. (1 CEU)
Huntertown Community Interpretive Park: From Visioning to Implementation
Host: Jayoung Koo, PhD, MEM, MLA, Associate Professor UKLA
Info: This will be a group presentation on how the partnership between UK and the community synergized the long-term effort of building Huntertown Community Interpretive Park as well as other outcomes and impacts of the project. (1 CEU)
Vendor Fair
Open Houses Are Not Enough: A Discussion on the Future of Public Engagement
Host: Morgan Dunay, Gresham Smith
Info: The concept that "Open Houses Are Not Enough" reflects the speakers' approach and perspectives towards the evolution of public engagement procedures for projects across various scales. In this session, the speakers will dissect diverse processes, share valuable learnings and outcomes from their firsthand experience in public engagement over the past five years. They aim to motivate the audience to actively engage in discussions, exploring the advantages and drawbacks of different engagement strategies and approaches in project scaling, ranging from an individual park to a regional transit system. This interactive session intends to provide a holistic understanding of project scaling and public participation. (1 CEU)
Kentucky ASLA Awards Luncheon
All In With and For the Ohio River
Host: Melody Nall, MS. CEDIK Engagement Director
Info: UKLA students will be presenting their perspectives of a 10-week fellowship program where nine students from diverse academic disciplines collaborated on a community development design for Maysville, Kentucky. (1CEU)
Vendor Fair
Team KY Communities
Host: Mark Arnold, RLA, Senior Landscape Architect at HKBell
Info: The panel will be discussing the role of Landscape Architects on the TEAM KY design team that is building new housing communities for flood victims in Eastern Kentucky. (1 CEU)
Where is it happening?
Limestone Hall, 215 West Main Street, Lexington, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 0.00 to USD 369.93
