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Leaders RoundtableEach year, LAF and Landscape Forms co-hosta Leaders Roundtable to foster dialogue amongdistinguished design professionals aboutemerging trends in design and professionalpractice.In May, a group of 19 landscape architects,architects and interior designers, representinglarge and small firms, met in San Francisco todiscuss integration and the multidisciplinarydesign process: how it works, why it sometimesfalls short, and what design practitioners cando to make it better. The conversation wasmoderated by Joe Brown, Chief InnovationOfficer at AECOM.Participants emphasized the need for commonlanguage among the design disciplines, sharedvalues, and cross-disciplinary opportunitiesat the university-level. A full summary of theconversation is available as a “RoundtableReport on Multidisciplinary Process.”“We’re the artistic side of the process and wefind ourselves fighting to preserve the purityof the construct. In fact, given our training assynthesizers and our place in the in-betweenzone of the different design professions,we should have confidence in our ability tore-invent the aesthetic construct as we movethrough the process and get inputs from ourallied professionals.”— Jim Stickley, ASLA, LEED AP, Wallace Roberts & Todd2011 Leaders Roundtable ParticipantsMark Adams, IIDASmithGroup, Phoenix, AZDavid AnttilaReel Grobman, San Jose, CATary Arterburn, ASLAstudioOutside, Dallas, TXDana Brown, ASLABrown+Danos landdesign, inc., Baton Rouge, LAJoe Brown, FASLAAECOM, San Francisco, CABill Callaway, FASLASWA Group, Sausalito, CAAndrea Cochran, FASLAAndrea Cochran Landscape Architecture,San Francisco, CABarbara Deutsch, ASLALandscape Architecture Foundation,Washington, DCBruce Hemstock, CSLA, LEED APPWL Partnership, Vancouver, BCBrian Jencek, ASLAHargreaves Associates, San Francisco, CAChristopher Kent, ASLAPGA Design, Oakland, CATodd Kohli, RLAAECOM, San Francisco, CAJulie KoningKoning Eizenberg, Santa Monica, CAKristen LundquistBrumbaugh Associates, Seattle, WADon Raines, ASLAWallace Roberts & Todd, Dallas, TXDennis Rubba, ASLAStudioINSITE, Denver, COCarol Sandman, LEED APAP + I Design, Inc., Mountainview, CALee Steinmetz, ASLABellinger Foster Steinmetz, Monterey, CAJim Stickley, ASLA, LEED APWallace Roberts & Todd, San Francisco, CAPeter Walker, FASLAPeter Walker & Partners, Berkeley, CA16 | Landscape Architecture Foundation