Recipient of an Honor Award in the 2010 ASLA Professional Awards, the Landscape Infrastructures DVD is recognized by the American Society of Landscape Architects in the Communications Category of this year's competition. Sponsored by the Landscape Architecture Canada Foundation, the DVD collects the proceedings of a symposium held at the University of Toronto Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design in 2008.

According to the 2010 ASLA jury, "Usually a conference is there and people go home and forget about it. This is something that captures that knowledge and spreads the word to the profession. Communicating anything of value from a symposium is almost impossible and this does it really well. An important resource and example of how to capture and distribute information from industry events.”

Gathering a series of influential thinkers and practitioners from around the world, the symposium foregrounds the reciprocity between landscape and infrastructure by discuss emerging practices, paradigms and technologies that are reshaping the contemporary urban landscape. Reexamining the inertia of urban planning and the overexertion of civil engineering, the symposium reformulates a more synthetic vision of urban infrastructure as a landscape that conflates ecological and economic imperatives of urban regions. The penultimate objective of the symposium repositions the agency of landscape architects, urban designers and architects vis-àvis the design of urban infrastructures for the new economy of the 21st century.

The Landscape Infrastructures DVD was edited by Pierre Bélanger, Associate Professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and designed by OPSYS in collaboration with Master2DVD. Support for the symposium proceedings was made possible with generous support from the University of Toronto Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, the Landscape Architecture Canada Foundation, the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects, the Canadian Institute of Planners, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council, the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council and National Research Council Canada. Pierre Bélanger may be reached at belanger@harvard.edu.

The DVD disc-set is available online through the University of Toronto Bookstore and the Harvard University COOP.

For more information: http://www.asla.org/2010awards/623.html and http://www.daniels.utoronto.ca/events/symposia/2008/09/2986