On June 11, Assistant Professor Liat Margolis will join a group of preeminent scholars and professionals in the field of landscape architecture to "critically reflect on what landscape architecture has achieved over the last 50 years and present bold ideas for what it should achieve in the future." This discussion will take place as part of the Landscape Architecture Foundation Summit, a one-time historic gathering dedicated to the 50^th anniversary of Ian McHarg’s seminal Declaration of Concern, which heralded landscape architects as key leaders in the environmental movement.

Writes Barbara Deutsch for the Land8 blog:

“Fifty years ago on June 1 and 2, 1966, Ian McHarg, Grady Clay, Campbell Miller, Charles R. Hammond, George E. Patton, and John O. Simonds were convened by the newly formed Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. Motivated by a sense of crisis about the environment and its future, they proclaimed the role of the landscape architect as critical to help solve it and drafted and signed a Declaration of Concern outlining a four-pronged strategy to multiply the effectiveness of the limited number of landscape architects and produce more trained people to cope with the future environment they foresaw.”

The Director of the Daniels Faculty's award-winning Green Roof Innovation Testing Laboratory (gritlab) and Co-Director of the Centre for Landscape Research, Margolis was selected as one of 70 “established and emerging leaders” in the field of landscape architecture. As a panelist, her role will include engaging in a debate about landscape architecture’s potential to effect real world change.

For more information, visit lafoundation.org