# Event Details - **Event Name**: Oberlander Prize Forum V: RE : SEARCH - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 28 Oct, 2026 at 09:00 am – Fri, 30 Oct, 2026 at 05:00 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: Oct 29 symposium explores how landscape architects reconnect research and design, with a keynote Oct 28 and workshops Oct 30.About this Event https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events3/banners/88aecf30-4284-11f1-a2f8-5f78c887a938-rimg-w1200-h302-dc000000-gmir.png This event is presented in partnership with .RE: SEARCH: This full day symposium on October 29 explores how landscape architects are reclaiming and redefining their relationship between research and design. It is bracketed by a plenary keynote reception the evening prior (October 28) and mobile workshops the day following (October 30).The depth of research that informs the design work of Oberlander Prize laureate Mario Schjetnan and his firm Grupo de Diseño (GDU), is the impetus for the event. At Longwood Gardens, the recent transformation and reconstruction of Roberto Burle Marx’s Cascade Garden by landscape architects Reed Hilderbrand and architects Weiss/Manfredi is a prime example of a holistic research-driven design process that values both natural/ecological and historic/cultural systems. Surveying the work and measuring the success at Longwood, and elsewhere in North America—the focus of this symposium and related events—provides the ideal opportunity to explore how today’s practitioners are building and sharing knowledge with the joint quest of revealing, honoring, and integrating cultural systems and lifeways in the face of inevitable change.Order of Events:Paul B. Redman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Longwood GardensClaire Agre, ASLA, Principal, Unknown Studio, Baltimore, MD, and Jury Chair, 2025 Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture PrizeMario Schjetnan, FASLA, Founder, Grupo de Diseño (GDU), Mexico City, Mexico and 2025 Oberlander Prize LaureateMario Schjetnan at his Mexico City office - Photo by Charles A. Birnbaum, 2025Opening Keynote: Reclaiming and Redefining our Relationship Between Research and Design through a Cultural Systems LensCharles A. Birnbaum, FASLA, FAAR, Founding President + CEO, The Cultural Landscape FoundationPanel I: RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE | Re: Discover, Re: Appraise and Re: AcknowledgeElizabeth K. Meyer, FASLA, Merrill D. Peterson Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, Charlottesville, VA, moderator. Speakers: Kofi Boone, FASLA, Joseph D. Moore Distinguished Professor and University Faculty Scholar at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; Jennifer Lauer, Project Designer and Cultural Landscape Historian, Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, Charlottesville, VA, and Lydia Gikas Cook, Senior Associate, Reed Hilderbrand, Cambridge, MAPlenary Provocation I: Table Setting for DESIGN PROPOSITIONSAnne Whiston Spirn, FASLA, FCELA, author, landscape architect, photographer, scholar. Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MAPlenary Provocation II: REALIZING THE WORKWalter J. Hood, artist, designer, educator. Creative Director and Founder, Hood Design Studio, and Professor Emeritus of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning and Urban Design at the University of California, Berkeley, Oakland, CAPanel II: GROUNDING RESEARCH | Re: Design, Re: New and Re: ActivateEric Kramer, FASLA, Principal, Reed Hilderbrand, Cambridge, MA, moderator. Speakers: Nina Chase, PLA, ASLA, and Chris Merritt, PLA, ASLA, Founding Principals, Merritt Chase, Pittsburgh, PA, and Indianapolis, IN; Ross Altheimer, PLA, FAAR, and Maura Rockcastle, PLA, Principals and Co-Founders, TEN x TEN Studio, Minneapolis, MN, and Marc Hallé, MLA, B. Civ.Eng., FCSLA, OALA, AALA, Co-President and Partner, CCxA, Montréal, CanadaClosing Panel Discussion | REFRAMING THE NARRATIVEMario Schjetnan, Anne Whiston Spirn, and Walter J. Hood in conversation. Moderated by Charles A. BirnbaumLACES credits will be available, pending approval.October 30: Mobile WorkshopsExplore how a commitment to research, recordation, and holistic site analysis have impacted management and design decisions.10:00 - 11:30 AM - Longwood Gardens’ Cascade Garden led by Eric Kramer, FASLA, Principal, Reed Hilderbrand; Kristin Frederickson, Principal, Reed Hilderbrand; Joshua D. Kiehl, AIA, NCARB, Principal and Technical Director, John Milner Architects, Inc.; Longwood Garden Staff and Curators10:00 - 11:30 AM - Longwood at Granogue led by Paul B. Redman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Longwood Gardens and Claire Agre, Principal of Unknown Studio10:00 - 11:30 AM - Mt. Cuba Center led by Thomas Woltz, FASLA, Senior Principal and Owner, Nelson Byrd Woltz, and Mt. Cuba Center Staff1:00 - 2:00 PM - Chanticleer Garden led by Chanticleer Staff1:00 - 3:00 PM - Winterthur Museum, Garden, & Library led by Linda Eirhart, Alice Cary Brown Director of Garden; Lori Schnick, Associate Curator Plant Records and GIS; Joe Lazorchak, Landscape Horticulturist; and Carol Long, Garden ManagerLACES credits will be available, pending approval. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/kennett-square/oberlander-prize-forum-v-re-search/100001986993540167 - **Event Categories**: Art, Workshops, Business, Nonprofit, literary-art - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 75, max: 350, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Kennett Square - **state**: PA - **country**: United States - **location**: Longwood Gardens - **lat**: 39.8735119 - **long**: -75.67342169999999 - **full address**: Longwood Gardens, 1001 Longwood Road, Kennett Square, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Oberlander Prize Forum V: RE : SEARCH - **Image URL**: https://img.evbuc.com/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.evbuc.com%2Fimages%2F1181701058%2F118445155621%2F1%2Foriginal.20260408-155007?auto=format%2Ccompress&q=75&sharp=10&s=4781ee64ddf924fe727f3eaab3bed881 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Oberlander Prize Forum V: RE : SEARCH being held? 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