Landscape Skills Inc.

www.landscapeskills.org

Maria is the President of Landscape Skills Inc, a Florida-based organization centered around education, community and the environment.

We are a nonprofit equipping our neighborhoods from all ages and access to critical core training to make purposeful green design for people and the planet. We make learning about how to design future cities possible for people who may not otherwise get to with our online Academy and programming. We distill technical information into immersive lessons that address the needs of all learning styles and the human dimension of caring. Beyond our Academy, we develop a variety of instructional resource and go out into the world and volunteer.

We have been asked to give live in person and online workshops, lecture talks, exercises, mentorship, and outreach geared towards advancing landscape-based skills specific to addressing climate-change related issues that can be solved through innovative design. We are made of up experts in the design disciplines such as landscape architecture, urban design, planning, architecture, and engineering. To this end, the organization; lessons the exclusivity of design tools and communication; provides equitable varied learning-styled students opportunities to grasp and apply important concepts that relate to the built environment; defends the importance of quality design for public good; combats public space deterioration and overdevelopment; promotes learning about the outdoors; and lessons the gap between teaching, research and practice in design.