Join us on Wednesday, August 5 at 6pm to listen to this week’s Mind the Gap session with Signe Nielsen, Founding Partner at MNLA. She will talk about the forks in her bumpy road that led her to landscape architecture and how events and forces have shaped the lenses through which she sees the field and its future. Signe will be joined by staff members Rae Ishee, Cari Krol, and Jacob Kuhn who will each share observations on making tough choices and how landscape architecture has a broad embrace.

In the Mind the Gap virtual summer conversation series, Lucinda Sanders, CEO of OLIN and adjunct professor of landscape architecture at the Weitzman School at the University of Pennsylvania, talks with leaders of prominent landscape architecture practices, exploring multiple options to launch or advance a career in landscape architecture during these unprecedented times.

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NYCEDC Chief Operating Officer Rachel Loeb, NYC Parks Queens Borough Commissioner Michael Dockett, DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg, Interim Queens Borough President Sharon Lee, Council Member I. Daneek Miller, Council Member Adrienne Adams, MNLA's Noriko Maeda and community leaders today celebrated the completion of the Atlantic Avenue Extension project and opened the newly created Gateway Park in Queens.

Designed by MNLA the 0.86 acre park boasts a new playground, additional open space,and shaded seating and builds on the firm’s revitalization plan for downtown Jamaica. "We're thrilled this long-awaited project offering open space and safe roadways is complete for all of the residents in this community to enjoy,” said Community Board 12 District Manager Ms. Yvonne Reddick.

MNLA is thrilled to be a Supporting Firm Sponsor of CUT/FILL, the first ever Open Space un-Conference for Landscape Architecture on July 23-24. We hope that you will join us by registering!

This is an online conference where YOU - the participants - set the agenda and propose discussion topics. The purpose of this conference is to help us identify the changes we want to make to our own profession during this unprecedented time of a global pandemic and civil unrest from racial injustices.

CEUs will be provided. Please click through for registration information.