Nich Matson – LA 435

Hello my name is Nicholas Matson. I am a fifth year landscape architecture student at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. This blog is an assignment for one of my classes and is aimed at recording my thoughts and findings while learning about the professional practice of landscape architecture. For this assignment I while join a PPN (Professional Practice Network) that is a part of ASLA ( The American Society of Landscape Architects). By join a PPN I can find information and guidance to help me with my studio project and greater my education.

I will be joining the Education and Practice PPN as it relates best to my studio project. As a fifth year, I am currently in my final quarter here at Cal Poly and taking a senior studio where I am expected to complete my capstone project. For my senior project I am researching young children’s education and incorporating it with landscape architecture in the form of children’s books. Other professions, such as architecture and environmentalism, have many children’s books that expose young kids to their field. These books get children excited about these professions and teach them about the values that each one has. Landscape architecture, however, has no children’s books written about it. This presents a unique opportunity to expose kids to the profession and what it does. Using the Education and Practice PPN I can learn about how other landscape architects are teaching and promoting the profession to the next generation. I can look at examples of educational projects in the PPN’s blog and relate them to my own project. Although much of the PPN is focused on the teaching of college aged students, the examples they provide about education methods are still relevant to my project and can be translated for younger audiences. I have already looked using one blog post about outreach to high school students about landscape architecture as a study case.

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