2023 Education Symposium Program
Session 1 – You and the HSW
Friday, April 28, 2023 | 8:30-9:30
Kristine Kubes | Principal, Mediator, Legal Advisor, Litigator, Educator
Kubes Law Office
Past Chair, ABA Forum on Construction Law
Attorney Kristine A. Kubes is principal of Kubes Law Office, PLLC, serving design and construction professionals through all stages of a project – from contracts to payment issues, liens, and defense of professional liability claims. She is a litigator admitted to argue cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. She is a mediator, and educator on construction, design, and ethics issues for design professionals. Kristine is a Past National Chair of the American Bar Association Forum on Construction Law. She served as a public member on the MN Board of licensure (AELSLAGID) from 2005-2013, during which she served two terms as Board Chair from 2009-2011.
Session 2 – Designing a Lower Salt Future
Friday, April 28, 2023 | 9:45-10:45
Connie Fortin | Sr. Project Manager
Bolton & Menk, Inc.
Josh Shields | Principal Landscape Architect
Bolton & Menk, Inc.
Katherine Gould | Landscape Architect
Bolton & Menk, Inc.
Connie Fortin is a senior project manager who joined the Bolton & Menk team in early 2022. Beginning her professional career in 1982 and serving as founder and president for Fortin Consulting Inc. since 1996, her experience speaks for itself. Connie’s expertise lies in chloride source reduction strategies, practical problem solving, networking, innovation, leadership, and what she likes to call “simplifying science.” As for her responsibilities, they’re plentiful and include client engagement, expanding our water resources division through her knowledge of chloride, integrating chloride into Bolton & Menk’s repertoire, and keeping work fun for those around her.
Josh Shields is dedicated to assisting clients develop sustainable solutions while considering the role of social, natural, and economic systems influencing their communities. His experience encompasses the full project cycle — from visioning, design development, construction, and including maintenance considerations. Josh’s ability to build project consensus through thoughtful design, meeting facilitation, and public input has led to many successful community-backed projects. “Every day brings unique opportunities for growth; leveraging new technologies, learning different perspectives, seeing excitement in the eyes of clients, and gaining a wider understanding of my community and the world in which we live, work, and play.”
Katherine Gould is a Project Landscape Architect at Bolton & Menk in Minneapolis. She has contributed to the designs for parks, streetscapes, trails, and community gathering spaces across the Midwest. Through these professional experiences and as a grassroots climate activist, Katherine has come to believe that consideration for the health of natural systems is not just a feature, but a goal integral to every successfully designed landscape. Katherine is passionate about community engagement, culturally relevant design, and practicing landscape architecture as a means of promoting public health and environmental equity.
Session 3 – Just Urban Design
Friday, April 28, 2023 | 11:00-12:00
Jeff Hou | Professor of Landscape Architecture
University of Washington
2019-2020 LAF Senior Fellow
Jeffrey Hou, PhD, is Professor of Landscape Architecture and director of the Urban Commons Lab at the University of Washington, Seattle. His work focuses on community design, civic engagement, and design activism. In a career that spans the Pacific, Hou has worked with indigenous tribes, farmers, fishers, and villagers in Asia and inner-city immigrant youths and elders in North American cites, on projects ranging from the conservation of wildlife habitats to bottom-up placemaking. Hou was the Landscape Architecture Foundation Senior Fellow in 2019-2020 and the recipient of the Outstanding Educator Award from the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) in 2023.
Session 4 – Artificial Light and the Ever-Brightening Night
Friday, April 28, 2023 | 1:00-2:00
Andrew Papke-Larson | Board Member
Starry Skies North
Andrew Papke-Larson is a board member of Starry Skies North, a local non-profit and chapter of the International Dark-Sky Association working to preserve dark skies in Minnesota. He holds a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Minnesota, with a concentration in ecological restoration and is currently working at Barr Engineering as a landscape designer. Andrew has a passion for the outdoors and enjoys connecting people with the natural environment.
Friday, April 28, 2023 | 2:15-3:15
Katie Kelly | Associate
Ten×Ten
Katie is a Landscape Architect and Associate at TEN x TEN. Her experience at TEN x TEN has largely been focused on cultural landscapes, sacred and contested sites, memorials, interpretive planning and community engaged design. She led the competition and design of the UNC Charlotte Constellation Garden Memorial, completed this April, and the on-going messaging design and prairie restoration at Indian Mounds Regional Park, an Indigenous cemetery in St. Paul. Previously, Katie was a landscape designer at Wolf | Josey Landscape Architects in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she helped realize a variety of institutional and residential projects in Virginia and the Mid-Atlantic. Katie holds a BS in Interior Design from Cornell University and an MLA from the University of Virginia, where she co-founded UVA’s first equity in design group, manifestA, and was a University Olmsted Scholar.
Session 5 – Perspective as Process: Shifting Perspective at Two Sacred Sites
Session 6 – Reimagining the Civic Commons
Friday, April 28, 2023 | 3:30-4:30
Paul Bauknight Jr. | Civic Scholar in Residence
Minneapolis College of Art & Design
Paul D. Bauknight Jr. is the founder and president of the Center for Transformative Urban Design. The center is an inter-disciplinary design justice studio dedicated to the inclusive and equitable development of cities, neighborhoods and towns. A graduate of Virginia Tech in architecture he has worked in in community-based design and development for over 30 years, he is passionately committed to working at the intersection of social, cultural, economic, and spatial systems creating solutions that are equitable, steeped in place and benefit each community. As the Spatial Justice and Social Equity fellow in residence with GGN landscape architects, a national design firm. He will focus on new models of practice and project delivery that enable GGN and other design firms to create a more equitable built environment. He has held leadership positions at the Minneapolis Parks Foundation, the African American Men project, A MN without Poverty and Urban Homeworks. He is the principal designer for signature North Minneapolis projects including Seed Academy, Summit Academy OIC, Plymouth Christian Youth Center and the Minneapolis Urban League Headquarters. He is the co-chair for the Equity in Place committee of Reimagining the Civic Commons, a national learning network of cities using civic assets as platforms for social and economic change. Paul is the inaugural Civic Scholar in Residence at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design for the 2021-23 school years where he will focus on the intersection of physical and social/political systems. A senior affiliate at the Minnesota Design Center, he also serves on the Friends of the Mississippi River and The Givens Foundation boards.
