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Speakers in 2008–2009
Since its inception in 1972, Conway has invited professionals to speak
with students about topics spanning many related fields, including
bioengineering, trail construction, planning and zoning laws, landscape
architecture history, natural resource assessment, and professional
practice to name just a few. Through these guest speakers, students
learn of possible career paths and of different approaches to land
planning and design. The guests also supplement core instruction in
natural sciences, technical skills, legal regulations, graphic and
verbal expression, and professional ethics.
Students meet with professionals in their offices, in the field, and
in the studio—beginning with the orientation trip in September, and
continuing throughout the year with regular lectures, field trips, and
formal presentations of student work. Guest speakers are an essential
component of the school’s curriculum, and we thank them for their time
and efforts.
RECENT SPEAKERS (Over 50 guest speakers every year)
- Julian Agyeman, Associate Professor and Chair, Urban and
Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University, Towards a Just
Sustainability
- Danielle Allen ’06, Arethusa Farm, Intervale Center, Urban agriculture
- Al Averill, Soil Survey Project Leader, Natural Resources
Conservation Service, Soils
- Adrian Benedetti, Director, Summit Nature Park, Panama, Panama's
Summit Park: Its History and Future
- Thomas S. Benjamin, Senior Landscape Architect, Vanasse Hangen
Brustlin, Inc., Fundamentals of Ecological Planting Design
- Reid Bertone-Johnson, Associate, Dodson Associates, Ltd. and
Lecturer, Landscape Studies, Smith College, Winter Term Formal
Presentations Critic
- Robert Black, Principal, Sunstructures Architecture, Sustainable
Design
- Terence Boyle, Landscape Architect and Planning Consultant, T.J.
Boyle and Associates, Spring Term Formal Presentations Critic
- Madeleine Charney ’03, Research Librarian and Liaison to Landscape
Architecture and Regional Planning Department, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, Library Research
- Tina Clarke, Community Organizer, Transition Towns
- Walt Cudnohufsky, Principal, Walter Cudnohufsky Associates, Inc.,
Landscape Design Theory
- Kate Dana ’07, Associate Landscape Designer, PLACEstudio, From Plan
Sets to Project Reports: Graphic Design and InDesign®
- Harry L. Dodson, Principal, Dodson Associates, Ltd., Buffalo Bayou
- Jonathon Ellison ’93, Landscape and Architectural Designer, Ellison
Design, Spring Term Formal Presentations Critic
- Ben Falk ’05, Owner/Designer, Whole Systems Design, LLC, Professional
Practice and Site Design
- Elizabeth Farnsworth, Biologist and Scientific Illustrator, Master
Teacher, Conway School of Landscape Design, Botanical Illustration;
Understanding Plant Preferences: How Plants Adapt in the Wild and in Our
Gardens; Fall Term Formal Presentations Critic
- Richard T. T. Forman, Professor of Landscape Ecology, Harvard
University Graduate School of Design, Urban Regions: Ecology and
Planning Beyond the City
- Eileen Grant, Landscape Designer, Beatrix Farrand and Harkness
Memorial State Park
- John Hudak, Environmental Planning Manager, Whitney Water Facility,
Watershed Management Practices
- Dave Jacke ’84, Designer, Instructor, Author, Proprietor, Dynamics
Ecological Design Associates, Permaculture Design; Fall Term Formal
Presentations Critic
- Peter Jensen, Founder, Peter S. Jensen and Associates, LLC, Trail
Design and Construction
- Hisa Kominami, M.Sc. Student, Agroecology/Ecological Landscape
Design, University of Vermont, Agricultural Water Quality Issues
- Scott LaFleur, Director of Horticulture, New England Wild Flower
Society and Garden in the Woods, Rain Gardens: Helping Nature and Having
Fun
- Selina Lamb ’97, Landscape Designer, Selina Lamb, Ltd., Fall Term
Formal Presentations Critic
- Richard Little, Professor of Geology, Greenfield Community College,
Landforms and Geology
- Greg Lowenberg, Plant Ecologist, Fall Term Formal Presentations
Critic
- Charles Mann, Author, The Pristine Myth
- Catherine Miller, Principal Planner, Pioneer Valley Planning
Commission, Public Planning
- Bill Mitchell, Development Director, The Intervale Center, The
Intervale Center History and Programs
- Peter Monro ’86, Principal, Monro Associates Landscape Planning and
Design, Paths
- Andrea Morgante ’76, Owner, Andrea Morgante Landscape Services,
Community Planning
- Darrel Morrison, Master Teacher, Conway School of Landscape Design;
Adjunct Professor, Columbia University, Landscape Design: Where Art and
Nature Meet
- Glenn Motzkin, Ecology Advisor, The Trustees of Reservations, and
Plant Ecologist, Winter Term Formal Presentations Critic
- John O’Keefe, Coordinator, Fisher Museum, Harvard Forest (retired),
Harvard Forest Dioramas and Forest Ecology
- Judy Prescott, Executive Director, Tidewater Institute, Conservation
at the Mouth of the Connecticut River; Spring Term Formal Presentations
Critic
- Will Raap, Founder, Gardener’s Supply and The Intervale, Ecological
Intelligence, the New Guiding Principle for Sustainable Land Use and
Economic Development
- David Raphael, Principal/Landscape Architect and Planner, LandWorks,
Intervale Center Land Use and Circulation Master Plan
- Alan Rice, Landscape Architect, Landscape Construction
- Mary V. Rickel Pelletier, Project Director, Park River Watershed
Revitalization Initiative, Urban Streams and Stormwater Management, Fall
Term Formal Presentations Critic
- Joan S. Rockwell, Landscape Architect, Joan S. Rockwell and
Associates, Fall Term Formal Presentations Critic
- Joel Russell, Land Use Attorney and Planning Consultant, The Legal
and Planning Frameworks for Site Design; Zoning and Land Use Law
- Steven Strong, President, Solar Design Associates, Inc., Renewable
Energy
- Pilar Garcia Sussman, Actress, mime, and movement coach, Speaking in
Public
- Dana Tomlin, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Regional
Planning, University of Pennsylvania, Geographic Information Systems
- Liz Vizza ’82, Landscape Designer/Planner, Elizabeth Vizza
Consulting, Winter Term Formal Presentations Critic
- David Vreeland, Principal, Spectrum Design Collaborative,
Infrastructure, Septic, and Water Systems
- Marshall Webb, Woodlands Manager, Shelburne Farms, Shelburne Farms
and Woodland Management
- Tom Wessels, Core Faculty and Associate Chair for External
Relations, Antioch College New England, Reading the Forested
Landscape
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