Join The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF), the University of Southern California (USC), and SWA Group for a daylong conference on Friday, December 5, 2025, at USC’s Bovard Auditorium. The program will highlight landscape architecture’s role in addressing urban flooding and water management in Los Angeles, Southern California, and globally. The conference will be preceded by a reception on Thursday, December 4, at the SWA Los Angeles studio featuring an opening keynote by Lauren Bon, Metabolic Studio, and followed on Saturday, December 6, by mobile workshops. Each event is separately ticketed.

Speakers include leading practitioners, academics, and critics from Los Angeles and a panel of international speakers, including Oberlander Prize laureate Kongjian Yu, the world’s leading proponent of the “sponge cities” concept.

Use the promo code ASLA-NCC for 25% off conference registration. Early-bid prices end October 15.

LACES credits will be available, pending approval.