Continuing Education

The purpose of this course is to provide inspirational tools that promote conversation and open minds (and funding) for more comprehensive outdoor spaces. We will examine the critical role that site furnishings and supporting technology play in meeting the unique and evolving needs of outdoor space, by presenting and exploring insights and solutions in a range of outdoor environments - from college, healthcare, and corporate campuses, to transit, living and recreational spaces. We believe outdoor space has the ability to connect people with nature and each other in meaningful ways and that that potential can be optimized with smart site furnishing and supporting technology applications.

This course is designed to provide in-depth information about materiality that may be unknown in the design community. It will provide important knowledge for design professionals to problem-solve and recommend material specifications for use in the outdoor environment. It will also inform specifiers on how to educate clients with the implications of materiality relevance, supporting their recommendations, and client expectations for the life of the project.

This session will explore the human interaction with contrast, color rendering, and glare reduction that shape and enhance the visual experience while protecting the environment. Lighting design based on pedestrian activities at night requires very different requirements from vehicular roadway-centric lighting. Participants will learn the basics of LED technology and become familiar with concepts to help evaluate LED lighting for future projects.

This course is designed to introduce specifiers to the design criteria and process for manufacturing exterior light fixtures through an interactive tour of the Landscape Forms outdoor lighting showroom. On this tour, participants will learn about the basics of LED lighting and the criteria for evaluating LED lighting based on visual performance, energy and economics, and aesthetics. The goal will be to leave with a broad understanding of how to specify a wide-range of exterior products for a variety of applications on future projects, and to be inspired with new ways of reimagining bringing the exterior environment to light.

The goal of this course is for you to acquire a better understanding of how our ever evolving urban spaces need more opportunities for humans to connect, interact, and live. We will focus on how the city of Denver - pioneers of the urban pedestrian mall concept - have reimagined the 16th Street Mall and the approach to lighting the space to better address the needs of the human inhabitants using the space.