CSLA News
CSLA Calls for Nominations for the 2022 Recognition Awards
The CSLA invites nominations for the Recognition Awards. The deadline to submit nominations is April 1st 2022 at 4 pm ET.
The award categories include:
- Schwabenbauer Award for Service to the CSLA
- Community Service Award
- Lifetime Achievement Award
- Teaching Award
- Emerging Professional Award
Send your nomination forms to Michelle Legault (executive-director@csla-aapc.ca) before April 1st, 2022 to submit your nomination.
Join us on May 5, 2022 from 2-3 pm ET for our 2022 Annual General Meeting
If you are unable to attend, please fill out the proxy form.
Call for Nominations: 2022 Governor General’s Medal in Landscape Architecture
The Governor General's Medal in Landscape Architecture (GGMLA) is the highest honour bestowed on a landscape architect by the CSLA. The medal is intended to honour exceptional landscape architects whose lifetime achievements and contributions to the profession have had a unique and lasting impact on Canadian society. DEADLINE: February 17, 2022
Black History Month 2022
Black History Month is an opportunity to honour the enormous contributions that Black men and women have made and continue to make in all sectors of society. It is a celebration of resilience, innovation, and determination to work towards a more inclusive Canada - one in which everyone has the opportunity to flourish. At the CSLA, we want to honour these noble intentions. As such, I invite us to go even further. In addition to recognizing the extraordinary contributions of our fellow Black Canadians, let us reflect on the actions we can take to make our profession, our community and our world more inclusive and just.
As you know, justice, equity, diversity and inclusion are core values of the CSLA and we are working nationally to create an action plan - these values only have meaning if they are accompanied by concrete actions. The transformations to be achieved require the contribution and commitment of everyone.
CSLA February Board Meeting Decisions
- LP Editorial Board’s election of Ryan Wakshinski as Chair was ratified.
- Margot Long was approved to serve a three-year term as member of the Landscape Architecture Accreditation Council.
- Micheal Williamson and Karen Schlemkevich were appointed co-chairs of the Human Health and Well-Being Committee for a three-year term and the Board thanked Kathy Dunster for her term chairing the committee.
- The Board endorsed the Canadian Institute of Forestry's 2 Billion Trees program.
LP Call for Submissions - Fall 2022 Edition, "Blink"
Temporary landscapes are exciting and invigorating, providing aesthetic solutions that prompt new ways of understanding our environments and improving the quality of the urban fabric. Temporary interventions challenge the idea of permanence – by promoting creativity and flexible design solutions that provide a perspective on the use of spaces within our built environments, if only for a few fleeting moments.
In this issue of Landscapes | Paysages we invite you to submit articles discussing landscapes that are temporary by design. We are looking to celebrate unique interpretations of temporary phenomena and fleeting experiences.
Deadline for article ideas, abstracts or rough drafts is April 12, 2022. Final draft submission deadline is May 15, 2022.
Member News
New book: Spatial Planning for Resilient Economic Diversification by James Dobbin
As the world moves away from fossil fuels, mining-dependent regions that once provided the foundation for employment and economic growth now face the post-mining prospect of economic shock and social upheaval. Economic diversification of these regions is a huge challenge that needs to be addressed as a matter of urgency to enable their transition to a sustainable growth path. "Spatial Planning for Resilient Economic Diversification: La Guajira, Colombia" describes how strategic spatial planning can be used to gain new insights of opportunities and constraints for mining-dependent regions and to develop multisectoral development plans for resilient and sustainable economies.
See the book on our books by members page
Portrait of Danielle Dagenais and research in Québec vert
In its January 2022 issue, Québec vert magazine presents a portrait of research and innovation in Quebec in environmental and nutritional ornamental horticulture. Also, portraits of researchers in the field are presented, including this one of Danielle Dagenais.
LACF News
Thank you to our ten generous Frederick Gage Todd Scholarship donors
Thanks to the 'Ten for Todd' fundraising campaign, we have raised $50,000.00 in 2021.
We are that much closer to endowing the Frederick Gage Todd Scholarship, which is LACF's premier scholarship valued at $10,000.00 per year. It was awarded for the first time in 2021 to Kendra Scanlon.
LACF Annual Members' Meeting
The 2022 LACF Annual Members' Meeting will take place on April 27th, 2022 from 12 to 1 pm ET. Join us by registering for the event. If you are unable to attend, please submit a proxy form. You can find the meeting documents at the link below.
Join us for the 2022 Annual Grants Recipients Recognition Event
On March 4th, 2022, from 1-2 pm ET, LACF will be hosting our Annual Grants Recipients Recognition Event via zoom. Join us in celebration of the forward-thinking research being funded by this year's Annual Grants Program.
Call for Applications for the 2022 Frederick Gage Todd National Scholarship
One prize of $10 000 will be awarded in Summer 2022 to an outstanding Canadian student enrolled in a CSLA-accredited program of landscape architecture. This scholarship recognizes a student who demonstrates exceptional knowledge, skill and commitment directed to the advancement of Canadian landscapes through the practice of landscape architecture.
Year of the Garden News
Get Ready for Year of the Garden 2022!
You’re invited to join in the fun and “Live the Garden Life” during the Year of the Garden 2022, a celebration of everything garden and gardening related in Canada. Discover the many ways you can celebrate today’s vibrant garden culture at home, at work, in school, in your community, and at public gardens across the country from the Planter’s Moon in the spring of 2022, to the Frost Moon in the fall.
Interested in becoming a promotional partner for the 2022 Year of the Garden?
IFLA News
The 58th IFLA World Congress will be held in Gwangju, Korea from August 31 to September 2, 2022
The world has witnessed rapid changes with the spread of the pandemic, technological revolution, and political conflicts. We the professionals now have the mission to provide healthy, happy, and beautiful vision for 2022. For this, we will gather to discuss issues of landscape with the scale ranging from local to global.
Through this event, we will reclaim public leadership in landscape architecture as we re:visit professional and academic achievements to date, re:shape the earth through emerging discourse and technologies, re:vive everyday lives to healthier and more vibrant days, and finally re:connect to nature.
IFLA invites you to Gwangju Korea to share ideas and visions to make a better future.
Other News
CLARB's 2022 Job Task Analysis (JTA) Is HERE!
CLARB is conducting its Job Task Analysis (JTA), a study of the practice of landscape architecture that forms the basis of the Landscape Architecture Registration Exam (L.A.R.E.). We are asking for YOUR participation in the survey!
CLARB is randomly selecting 17 survey respondents to win Visa gift cards in the amounts of $100 to $500. The winners will be chosen when the survey closes.
Take the survey and learn more
The Call for Entries for the Grands Prix du Design is Open Until April 1, 2022
The call for entries for the 15th edition is open until April 1, 2022 and your projects from the past three years are eligible for submission. In addition to the long list of benefits offered to the winners, see here, the contest offers a guaranteed visibility to all its candidates.