SUN-B01: Inside the LA Studio - TenxTen

Sunday, October 29, 2023

2:00pm – 3:15pm CT

1.25 PDH, LA CES/non-HSW, AICP, FL

Guest Speaker(s)

Ross B. Altheimer, ASLA, FAAR (he/him/his)

Principal and Cofounder
TEN x TEN
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Maura M. Rockcastle, ASLA

Principal and Co-Founder
TEN x TEN
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Satoko Muratake, ASLA (she/her/hers)

PLA / Director of Process
Ten x Ten
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota
Erica J. Christenson, ASLA, PLA, SITES AP (she/her/hers)

Managing Director
TEN x TEN
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Moderator(s)

JB

Julie Bargmann, ASLA

Principal + Founder / D.I.R.T. studio
Professor Emerita / University of Virginia School of Architecture
Charlottesville, Virginia

Founded in 2015, TEN x TEN is a transdisciplinary landscape architecture and urban design practice grounded by a shared curiosity and passion for exploration, storytelling, and agency. As a values and mission-driven practice, we co-create compassionate, immersive, and resilient spaces that confront the issues of our time. 

Learning Outcomes:

Explore what it takes to approach practice through values, humility, and respect.
Understand how elevating truth within projects can positively transform design processes, decision-making structures, and engagement approaches.
Learn how storytelling, language, and narrative can be used as tools to remain vulnerable and spark open, participatory conversation between collaborators, clients, and peers.
Discuss the power of transparency as an organizational strategy to build trust and define office culture.