MON-B03: Making It Real: The Descanso Gardens Master Plan from Vision to Implementation

Monday, November 14, 2022

11:00am – 12:00pm PT

1.00 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AIA/HSW, AICP, FL

Lead Speaker(s)

Ruth Siegel, ASLA

Senior Project Director
RIOS
Los Angeles, California

Speaker(s)

Juliann Rooke

Executive Director
Descanso Gardens
La Canada Flintridge, California
Connie J. Chung, AICP

Managing Principal, Los Angeles Office
HR&A Advisors, Inc.
Los Angeles, California

Want to prevent your plans from sitting on a shelf collecting dust? This session will dive into the Descanso Gardens’ 2020 Master Plan and explore how the team is working to get things built. This involves problem-solving, team building, budgeting, phasing, and lots of elbow grease.

Learning Outcomes:

Gain insight into the virtuous cycle of design vision, leadership, funding, and planning and how this best enables the implementation of master planning efforts.
Explore the critical challenges and successful strategies behind implementing ambitious master planning projects.
Learn how landscape architects can enrich the master plan implementation process by bringing resiliency planning and design vision to the forefront.
Examine how botanical gardens have evolved their programming, outreach, and educational agendas for new audiences and a changing climate.