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PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 28, 2014 |
Media Contact Michelle Medaris Landscape Communications, Inc. Phone: (714) 979-5276 Ext. 136 mmedaris@landscapeonline.com www.LandscapeOnline.com |
Thursday, February 13th 10:30 am - 12:30 pm Placemaking: Historical Inspiration and Contemporary Expression in Urban Design, Tom Norquist Be inspired by communities that have formed unique partnerships and engaged citizens to develop award winning outdoor play environments that apply interpretive themes for learning. This session will highlight methods to discover the power of engaging a variety of stakeholders in design workshops, community builds, and funding models to design and program innovative play spaces specifically designed to link to the local environment, social or natural history, or community culture. Projects of distinction across the nation will be highlighted that infuse community culture and/or history, and design best practices will be offered to create unique play destinations that promote creativity, learning, physical activity, and inclusion. CEU Accreditation: LA CES Friday, February 14th 8:30 - 10:00 am Outdoor Learning Environments, Mark Baker Children learn by doing. Experience and play in the outdoors are vital to children and their well-being, as well as health and development across all areas. This course will teach you how to design for experiential learners, and how the outdoors provide an exciting, hands-on, deeply interesting space in which children learn from the natural world, one another and from their play. CEU Accreditation: LA CES Friday, February 14th 1:30 - 3:00 pm Designing Urban Bike Paths, Charlie Gandy Who better to learn about great bike facilities than from a skilled practitioner and innovator? Charlie Gandy is a nationally renowned leader in bike and pedestrian design and leads a fun and educational virtual tour of Long Beach's award winning bike lanes, trails, separated bikeways and sharrows. He shares the secrets of planning, design, funding and public involvement of these projects while leading his group of virtual riders to experience the results of this city's high performance team. CEU Accreditation: LA CES For more information about LA Expo Seminars, please contact 714-979-5276 x. 136 |
