Free lectures and workshops Lurie Garden

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The Lurie Garden offers seasonal FREE lectures and workshops. All events are garden and nature themed. Here’s more info on the Lurie Garden.

Some events require registration. Click on links below for more information and to register.

If an event is “Sold out”add yourself to the waitlist. Time slots may open closer to the event. Also most events have “No shows” so you may be able to arrive day of and get in although there are no guarantees!

When: Wed, January 30, 2019, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM

Where: Chicago Cultural Center – Bradley Hall, 78 E. Washington St. Register here.

Shannon Nichol Lecture : Ordinary Landmarks Designing public spaces to reintroduce locally regular landscapes into communities

The modern mobility of humans and building supplies, computer-aided design and detailing, the sweeping scale of the vehicular age, and an industrialized nursery industry are among the factors contributing to the odd uniformity and over-scaled feeling in much of our built environment.

Landscape architecture has not been immune to the pressures in recent decades to “go big” or “world class” in order to register an effective visual impact within this challenging, grandly scaled setting. Citing several projects designed by GGN over the last 20 years – including the Lurie Garden at Millennium Park and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Campus — Shannon Nichol will encourage “going small and going slow” to create a different type of landmark experience for both residents and visitors.

GGN’s work incorporates often-forgotten local ecologies and daily vernacular into prominent urban sites. GGN’s design process, which continues to heavily utilize hand-drawing as a design tool, will be shown, providing insight into a design firm working to retain complexity, idiosyncrasy, and natural nuance in the designed landscape. The importance of native plants, in resurfacing and repairing the unique, multi-thousand-year evolution of plants and animals in each place, will be discussed.