Alex Maclean is a requested presenter for schools, assemblies, conferences, and nonprofit fundraisers providing commentary with his projected aerial images that address development patterns which impact our economic and social well-being. His images are entertaining while graphically telling stories about our constructed and natural environments and their relationship to climate change.
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Past Public Speaking Engagements
Lincoln Council on the Aging | March 13, 2017
AIA Arkansas Convention| Arkansas | October 15-17, 2015
LANDmarks Conference | Wales, UK | October 9, 2015
Urban Forum | Ottowa, Canada | December 3, 2014
Sponsored Lecturer
VRA Conference | Providence, RI | April 6, 2013
Keynote Speaker
The Arlington School | Belmont, MA | April 4, 2013
Sponsored Lecturer
Harvard Traveller's Club | Cambridge, MA | May 15, 2012
Sponsored Lecturer
Design Exchange | Toronto, ON, Canada | March 26, 2012
Sponsored Lecturer
ASCE Solutions to Coastal Disasters Conference | Anchorage, AK | June 27, 2011
Keynote Speaker
Boston Harbor Association | Boston, MA | June 14, 2011
Sponsored Lecturer
Gulf Coast Green Symposium | Houston, TX | May 25, 2011
Keynote Speaker
The Chilton Club | Boston, MA | May 18, 2011
Sponsored Lecturer
Lincoln Land Conservation | Lincoln, MA | May 17th, 2011
Sponsored Lecturer
Urban Forum | Ottawa, ON, Canada | February 16, 2011
Keynote Speaker
Community Matters | Denver, CO | October 2010
Keynote Speaker
Return of Landscape | Academy of Art, Berlin, Germany | March 2010
Sponsored Lecturer in conjunction with exhibition of same name
American Society of Landscape Architects | September 2009
Sponsored Lecturer, "Photography and the Build Landscape: Two Points of View" with Alan Ward
Burlington Firehouse Gallery | Burlington, VT | September 2009
Sponsored Lecturer, "Human = Landscape"
Monadnock Conservancy | Monadnock, VT | August 2009
Sponsored Lecturer
Academy of Arts | Berlin, Germany | April 2009
Sponsored Lecturer, "Return of Landscape" prior to upcoming exhibition in 2010
Boston University | Boston, MA | March 2009
Sponsored Lecturer
Tabor Academy | February 2009
Sponsored Lecturer
Boston Society of Landscape Architects | Boston Public Library, Boston, MA | October 2008
Sponsored Lecturer
Massachusetts College of Art | Boston, MA | September 2008
Sponsored Lecturer
COMPASS Idaho | May 2008
"Visualizing Density": One day intensive workshop presented with Julie Campoli
Congress for New Urbanism | Austin, TX | April 2008
"Visualizing Density": One day intensive workshop presented with Julie Campoli
Arizona State University College of Design | Phoenix, AZ | November 2007
"Visualizing Density": One day intensive workshop presented with Julie Campoli
The Boston Harbor Association | Boston, MA | November 2007
Sponsored Lecturer
The Nature Museum | Grafton, VT | September 2007
Sponsored Lecturer
Boston Society of Architects, Housing Committee | Boston, MA | December 2006
Sponsored Lecturer, "Metro Future"
Harvard Alumni Startups | Cambridge, MA | November 2006
Sponsored Lecturer, "The Power of Place"
Middlebury College | Middlebury, VT | November 2006
Sponsored Lecturer
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy | Lincoln, MA | December 2006
"Visualizing Density": One day intensive workshop presented with Julie Campoli
Harvard Graduate School of Design | Cambridge, MA | October 2006
"Big City Planning Director's Institute" : Three day intensive workshop presented with Julie Campoli
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy | Lincoln, MA | December 2004
Sponsored Lecturer, "Visualizing Density"
Kansas City Design Center, Kansas City, MO | November 2002
Sponsored Lecturer, "Sustaining a Sense of Region"
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy | Lincoln, MA | May, 2002
Sponsored Lecturer, "Visualizing Density"
University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Fine Arts | Philadelphia, PA | April 2002
Sponsored Lecturer, "World Urbanism and Landscape Architecture: A Symposium on Contemporary Urbanization and Future Practices of Landscape Architecture"
Dallas Architecture Forum | Dallas, TX | April 2001
Sponsored Lecturer
Boston Harbor Associates | Boston, MA | October 2001
Sponsored Lecturer
American Planning Association | April 2000
Sponsored Lecturer, "Can This Town Be Saved?"
The Menil Collection | Houston, TX | Fall 2000
Lecturer in conjunction with solo exhibit, "Houston Landscapes and Beyond"
The Boston Athenaeum | Boston, MA |march 1999
Sponsored Lecturer, "Evolving Landscapes As Seen From Above"
Rice University, Rice Design Alliance | Houston, TX | October 1998
Sponsored Lecturer, "Changing Focus: Photographers View Place"
Massachusetts Insitute of Technology School of Architecture and Planning | Cambridge, MA | November 1998
Sponsored Lecturer, "Imaging the City: The Place of Media in City Design and Development"
Massachusetts Association of Consulting Planners | Boston, MA | February 1997
Sponsored Lecturer
Yale University School of Architecture | New Haven, CT | Fall 1997
Artist-in-Residence in conjunction with seminar course taught by Dolores Hayden, Yale University Professor of Architecture and Urbanism and Professor of American Studies
Photographers Against Racism | December 1996
Invited Speaker, “Environmental Racism: Borders and Boundaries"
The Waterfront Center | Boston, MA | November 1996
Featured Speaker, “Urban Waterfronts"
Wentworth Institute of Technology | Boston, MA | November 1996
Sponsored Lecturer, “Boston Development Patterns"
American Institute of Architects | October 1996
Sponsored Lecturer, “Everyday Communities, Everyday Neighborhoods"