CELA 2011

2011 Annual Meeting of the COUNCIL OF EDUCATORS IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Los Angeles, California, USA USC School of Architecture URBAN NATURE This conference seeks to further our understanding of ourselves as part of nature, and how we ask critical questions about this in our design, research, and teaching. Such criticality demands a sharp focus on a more integrative ecology and a breadth of perspectives and productive debates in the form of posters, presentations, and panel discussions. Each presenter and participant is encouraged to reference “our nature in nature” as this may apply to the focus of their explorations. The main theme will be further regarded under the 10-track format that CELA uses to categorize all abstracts for its annual conferences. Additions or modifications to these tracks may be proposed depending upon deliberations of the conference planning committee. The CELA tracks are:

• Urban Nature (theme track)
• Service Learning and Community Engagement
• Design Education and Pedagogy
• Sustainability
• History, Theory and Culture
• Communications and Visualization
• Landscape Planning and Ecology
• People-Environment Relationships
• Urban Design
• Design Implementation
• Research and Methods