Are you a landscape architect or landscape designer who feels numbed by the daily routines of life and work? Are you seeking for more meaning in the work you do despite knowing intellectually the value of landscape architecture for people and for society? Or are you troubled by our world's current social and ecological challenges and feel frustrated about the limitations that design professions have to make monumental change because of systemic patterns in social, institutional, or political systems? Watch this presentation to be inspired about your role in the world! Whether you call yourself a landscape architect or not, a person who is motivated to make the world a better place is empowered by the archetype of the landscape architect.

This presentation brings us back to the original meaning of making place, nurturing belonging, and finding worthiness, taught by the life lessons available in landscape experiences. This areas are the ultimate pursuits of the landscape architect archetype. By navigating our environment through reciprocity, that is knowing that life is a process of giving and receiving, we learn that we have choice in the way we perceive the world. Our perceptions can change reality, and therefore, our autonomous choices to flourish are important!