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Tomorrow David Malda is speaking at Wreckshop 2024: Beyond the Horizon at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. Clayton Bruner, SWA Group, Houston, is also presenting tomorrow afternoon. Learn more at the link.

In today's San Francisco Chronicle, Sam Whiting provides a preview of tomorrow's opening celebration of India Basin Waterfront Park. “It feels amazing, unreal,” said Darryl Watkins, 23, who was raised and still lives in the Bayview, and now works full time for the Recreation and Park Department. “This signifies hope,” Watkins said as the dock swayed beneath his feet, riding the tide. “It’s a reason to get the community out and connect.” GGN will be hosting at table about the park design at tomorrow's opening event, 11am-4pm at 900 Innes Avenue, San Francisco. Learn more at https://lnkd.in/gF38-fgc .

Please join us for the opening of India Basin Waterfront Park at 900 Innes Avenue this Saturday in San Francisco. The partners of the India Basin Waterfront Park project—including the Trust for Public Land, San Francisco Parks Alliance, A. Philip Randolph Institute, San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department, San Francisco Foundation, and the Bayview-Hunters Point community—invite you to the opening of India Basin Waterfront Park at 900 Innes Avenue on Saturday, October 19 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Opening remarks will begin at 11:30 a.m. Join us for a vibrant celebration of the new park and the Bayview-Hunters Point community featuring free food through the park's new food pavilion managed by En2action; row boats for visitors to take out on the water with Rocking the Boat; live performances hosted by the Ruth Williams Opera House, an art activity with the park's new Artist in Residence, and resources connecting people to programs in the project's Equitable Development Plan. Learn more at https://lnkd.in/gF38-fgc GGN is thrilled to have worked with Jensen Architects, RANA, Sherwood Design Engineers, Moffatt & Nichol, Jon Brody Structural Engineers, Interface Engineering, Inc., Niteo, Page & Turnbull, MCK, AGS, and ZBeta, Inc. on this project, and we will be hosting a table about the park design during Saturday's celebration. Hope to see you there!

This evening, Shannon Nichol is giving a virtual presentation, "Forms, Weeds, and Real Life," as a guest speaker for New York Botanical Garden's Annual Landscape Portfolio Lecture Series. As co-founder of Seattle-based landscape design firm GGN, Shannon Nichol is committed to specifying local native plant palettes through long-term and norm-breaking collaborations with local horticulturalists and landscape managers around the world. Stemming from a lifelong enthusiasm and amateur familiarity with her home region’s under-used native plants, Nichol has documented the successes and failures of incorporating native plantings into her own gardens over the last 15 years, a process that has heavily influenced her professional work and led to many creative explorations and friendships along the way. Hear from Nichol as she shares learnings and insight from projects including; Chicago’s Lurie Garden at Millennium Park, the Gates Foundation Campus in Seattle, and the Seattle Residence: Native Gardens. The three-part lectures series will continue with Shane Coen, the founder and CEO of Coen+Partners on October 28; and Lauren Stimson, a Landscape Architect, Principal, and Partner at STIMSON on November 19. Learn more on the New York Botanical Garden's website: https://lnkd.in/gnBH5gZc

Rodrigo Abela is a field session leader at this year’s American Society of Landscape Architects conference in Washington, DC, on Sunday, October 6th. Constructing National Memory: Composition, Renovation, and Adaptation within the Monumental Core will discuss the evolving commitment to making the American story “accessible and sustainable” through the following landscapes of memory: the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, the World War II Memorial, and the Korean War Memorial. Brenda Sanchez, FAIA, Senior Architect and Senior Design Manager at the Smithsonian Institution will join Rodrigo in leading the discussion about the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. Field session leaders for the memorials include Sara M. Downing, ASLA, PLA, Principal at OEHME, VAN SWEDEN | OvS; Mary Katherine Lanzillotta, FAIA, Partner at Hartman-Cox Architects; Yue Li, Chief of Professional Services Division at National Park Service/National Mall and Memorial Parks; Bill Eubank, LEED AP, and Duane Krueger, Regional Sales Managers at Coldspring; Roy Jach, Senior Project Manager at GCS-SIGAL Construction; Holly Rotundi, Executive Director of FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL INC; and Kara Lanahan, ASLA, Principal at Horn & Company. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/ghPFnX_Z

Lorene Edwards Forkner provides a preview of this Saturday's Bellevue Botanical Garden Society & Heronswood Symposium in The Seattle Times. Co-hosted by Dan Hinkley and Nita-Jo Rountree, “Our Gardens: Alive!” will explore garden pollinators through an ecological lens. Speakers include Shannon Nichol, Founding Principal, GGN; Patrick C. Tobin, Professor of Disturbance Ecology in the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences at the University of Washington; Daniel J. Hinkley, World-Renowned Plant Explorer, Lecturer, Nurseryman, Naturalist, and Gardener; Scott Beuerlein, Manager of Botanical Garden Outreach at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden; and Heather Holm, pollinator conservationist and award-winning author. The symposium is a fundraiser for the two presenting organizations, Bellevue Botanical Garden and Heronswood Garden. Tickets are available at https://lnkd.in/gm2G-Ybx

The 5th Annual Bellevue Botanical Garden Society and Heronswood Symposium is this coming Saturday, September 21. Co-hosted by Dan Hinkley and Nita-Jo Rountree, “Our Gardens: Alive!” will explore garden pollinators through an ecological lens. Speakers include Shannon Nichol, Patrick C. Tobin, Professor of Disturbance Ecology in the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences at the University of Washington; Daniel J. Hinkley, World-Renowned Plant Explorer, Lecturer, Nurseryman, Naturalist, and Gardener; Scott Beuerlein, Manager of Botanical Garden Outreach at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden; and Heather Holm, pollinator conservationist and award-winning author. In her talk "Tiny Wilderness and Tea Towels," Shannon will discuss the backyard test beds, beautiful native wasps and bees, and her home propagation experiments that changed her approach to landscape architecture and garden design — especially in her home region of the Pacific Northwest. “I would hope that people might take from my talk the inspiration to have a fresh look at the way we know and celebrate seasons, family traditions, and communal identity in this place of the Pacific Northwest,” Shannon says. “I think that there is a wide-open era in front of us in which we start seeing the real beauty, abundance of unique seasonal cues, and cultural richness and history in the plants and animals that surround us in this place.” “We can teach these things to our children and enjoy celebrating where we are rather than automatically limiting ourselves to facsimiles of places that many of us have never been to. Gardening with the native plants of this place – and embracing those plants that happily meet us where we are in our urban, sunbaked yards – is a wonderful way to immerse oneself and one’s family in wildness and seasonal celebration every day,” Shannon added. The symposium will be held in-person in the Aaron Education Center at the Bellevue Botanical Garden and online. All presentations will be recorded and available to all attendees for two weeks following the live event. The symposium is a fundraiser for the two presenting organizations, Bellevue Botanical Garden and Heronswood Garden. Tickets are available at https://lnkd.in/gm2G-Ybx

Ryotaro Urago covers the opening of Grand Green Osaka & Umekita Park for JapanToday. GGN collaboratively led the landscape design for this 22-acre project.

Emma Hinchliffe's story about the opening of GGN’s landscape design for Grand Green Osaka & Umekita Park headlines today's SEATTLE DAILY JOURNAL OF COMMERCE .

Excited to announce the opening of GGN’s landscape design for Grand Green Osaka & Umekita Park. Gearoid Reidy covers the story for The Japan Times.