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It is difficult to argue that the succession of environ- PresidenT Elect Teri Cantin mental consciousness, depletion of ecological conditions, and Past PresidenT Katherine Dunster an increase in social justice for public spaces focused around Registrar Tracy Penner people, have put all landscape architects in the spotlight. But how do we ensure that our 5000W Treasurer Geoff Gooderham light bulb stays shining down on us while we get through the first act? On May 12, 13, and 14 of Directors Theresa Cherniak 2011, the BCSLA Conference RE:EVOLUTION will both challenge us and unite us to not only stay Dylan Chernoff in the spotlight, but to gain the ability and confidence to move that spotlight wherever we want. Gerald Fleming Allison Good With recent infiltration of discipline nomenclature such as “landscape urbanists”, “urban Amy Tsang designers”, “architectural theorists”, and “place makers”, there seems to be forming in the wings, a Ray Visser determined climb to the top of the podium in efforts to gain the attention of the next generation. CSLA Rep. Pawel Gradowski Directors (non-votinG) Who sets the trends and who gets to say what about the future of creating places? Why are cities and UBC Liaison Patrick Mooney organizations everywhere establishing fortuitous deadlines like 2035 or 2050, to confirm when Intern/Associate Rep. Emily Dunlop things will be turned around? StudenT Member Rep. Margaret Soulstein The convenient truth is that we are at a turning point in the development of outlooks of our Exec. Administrator Tara Culham AdministrativE Assist. Jessica Tan changing world. There will be a time when we need to stop and look at where we are now, and how Sitelines is published six times per year; we should position ourselves for the future. As professionals in this field, we need to determine February, April, June, August, October, and when not to reinvent the wheel; then, disguise it with a new name just to get noticed. Nor should December by the British Columbia Society we ignore the obvious limitations that we have allowed in the consultant whirlwind over the last of Landscape Architects and is mailed to half century that have been preventing our very own evolution. We could wait to react to change, all BCSLA members, registered landscape or we could start now. Is it time to embrace change? If so, what is that change and what does it architects, associates and affiliates. The look like? editorial deadline is the 8th and advertising is the 16th day of the intervening months. 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I am structure and content of the Conference. confident that we will all benefit from the 2011 BCSLA RE:EVOLUTION Conference Presenters This year’s Conference will host a number of keynote and special guest speakers including policy makers, authors, historians, top community engagement specialists, pioneer and award winning landscape architects, and academic professors to help share experi- ences, ideas, and a positive message that landscape architects can be the ultimate problem solvers of generations to come, and will be, if we are up to the challenge. Below are some highlights of our special guest speakers this year: Charles A. Birnbaum, FASLA, FAAR KEynote Presenter Charles A. Birnbaum, is the Founder and President Pioneers of American Landscape Design (McGraw Hill 2000), and The of The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF). Guidelines for the Treatment of Cultural Landscapes (National Park Ser- Prior to joining TCLF, Mr. Birnbaum spent 15 years vice, 1996). In 1995, the ASLA awarded the HLI the President’s as the coordinator of the National Park Service His- Award of Excellence and in 1996 inducted Mr. Birnbaum as a Fellow of toric Landscape Initiative (HLI) and a decade in the Society. He served as a Loeb Fellow at Harvard’s Graduate School of private practice in New York City with a focus on Design during which time he founded TCLF. In 2004, Mr. Birnbaum was landscape preservation and urban design. His recent projects include two awarded the Rome Prize in Historic Preservation and Conservation and web-based initiatives: “What’s Out There?” (a searchable database of the spent Spring/Summer of that year at the American Academy in Rome. In nation’s designed landscape heritage)