CSLA News
Call for Volunteers: Chair and Committee Members for the CSLA Awards of Excellence Program
Are you interested in helping lead, develop and monitor the CSLA Awards of Excellence Program?
If so, you may wish to submit your candidacy for either the Chair of the Program or as a member of the committee which oversees the program’s administration.
How do I apply?
Please send Michelle Legault, CSLA Executive Director, your CV at executive-director@csla-aapc.ca by November 15th, 2022 and indicate whether you are volunteering to serve as chair, as a committee member, or for both.
Call for Volunteers: Chair of CSLA’s Finance and Risk Management Committee
Are you interested in helping manage the CSLA’s budget? In working closely with the staff and the CSLA Board? If so, you may be interested in applying to chair the CSLA Finance and Risk Management Committee.
How do I apply?
Please send Michelle Legault, CSLA Executive Director, your CV at executive-director@csla-aapc.ca by November 15th, 2022.
Submit your Project for the 2023 Awards of Excellence Program
The time has come to submit your innovative projects for the 2023 Awards of Excellence Program! Read the submission requirements by following this link:
2023 CSLA-SALA Congress Call for Abstracts
The Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA) together with the Saskatchewan Association of Landscape Architects (SALA) invite qualified experts to submit abstracts for presentations and sessions to be presented at the upcoming 2023 CSLA-SALA Congress.
Presenters may be invited to present at the virtual event (20-minute sessions), the in-person event (30-minute sessions), or both. Furthermore, we welcome abstracts that propose a pre-conference presentation at the virtual event which could be expanded upon at the in-person event, in a workshop or other presentation.
To submit your abstract, complete the submission form, attaching any requested additional information, and email it to executive-director@csla-aapc.ca.
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The CSLA's College of Fellows Invites Nominations for the 2023 Class of Fellows
Submissions must be received by e-mail before 4 p.m. EST January 20th, 2023. Late or incomplete submissions will not be accepted.
The Fall 2022 “BLINK!” issue of LANDSCAPES | PAYSAGES is now available online!
Blink and the landscape appears; blink again and it is gone. But two blinks might also demarcate an interval of awareness… All landscapes are temporary, and each may hold many temporalities and multiple presents. Like an old camera lens’s click when changed to a different focal length, each blink may signal a different way of seeing a landscape’s time. – Brenda Brown –
Call for Submissions: Spring 2023 Edition of Landscapes|Paysages
Tourism+Recreation - Spring 2023
Guest Editor: Cindi Rowan
Final copy due date: December 19, 2022
For this issue of Landscapes|Paysages magazine, we invite you to submit stories about Tourism and Recreation design projects you have worked on, at home and abroad, that highlight the important contribution landscape architects make to the world of entertainment and destination design, and the impacts these treasured places have on us as a profession and a people.
CSLA Updates the Term 'College of Fellows' in French: Going Forward, the Official Translation will be 'Collège des Fellows'
In keeping with our objective of elevating the profession through election to the College, a review of the French term was undertaken, and the College of Fellows Executive Committee, CSLA Board, translators and staff agree that the official translation of 'College of Fellows' should be 'Collège des Fellows'.
September 2022 Board Meeting Decisions
1. An agreement to host the 2026 Congress in Halifax with APALA was approved.
2. The budget for the 2023 CSLA-SALA Congress was approved.
3. Updates to the CSLA's Archiving Policy were approved
4. A $5,000 donation to the Todd Reade Memorial Fund, on behalf of all component associations, CSLA Members and members of the wider landscape architecture community, was approved. (Todd Reade was the Executive Director of the Alberta Association of Landscape Architects, and passed away unexpectedly in September.)
On behalf of all Members, Partners, and Colleagues of Landscape Architecture, CSLA Makes a $5,000 Donation to the Todd Reade Memorial Fund
He was an important member of our collective administration team nationally. He was the pen and negotiator of the revised Reciprocity Agreement signed by all components and was also the author and administrator of our first ever JEDI survey undertaken in 2020. He also helped negotiate a national agreement on MCE Credits, organized LARE webinars
nationally, was a CLARB Board member representing Alberta, offered LARE exams to interns who wanted to take the exam in non CLARB member jurisdictions, and more. His leadership over the years was felt across the country, and for that, we will be eternally grateful.
As such, the CSLA, on behalf of all members, partners, and colleagues of landscape architecture, has made a $5,000 donation to the Todd Reade Memorial Fund in support of the LGBTQ2S+ community in fitness and aquatics, one of Todd's many passion projects.
Learn more about the Todd Reade Memorial Fund
Member News
Claude Cormier + Associés becomes CCxA
Following last spring’s announcement of an expanded leadership team at Claude Cormier + Associés, the firm continues its evolution and now becomes CCxA. The evolution from “+” to “x” marks a new milestone in the trajectory of the firm and reflects not only the multiplied efforts of an experienced team, but also reinforces a practice of hybrids between design and art, nature and artifice, real and surreal.
LACF News
LACF and BC2 Partner to Fund a Second Indigenous Scholarship
September, 2022 – The LACF and the urban planning and land development consulting firm BC2 have partnered to create a second Indigenous scholarship. The BC2 LACF Indigenous Scholarship (BC2) of $4,400 will be awarded yearly for the next five years to an Indigenous student studying landscape architecture who demonstrates leadership, creativity and the empowerment of Indigenous people and their landscapes through research, design, or community engagement. The first scholarship will be available in 2022.
Nicole Dulong is the 2022 Recipient of the Frederick Gage Todd National Scholarship
Congratulations to Nicole Dulong, the recipient of the 2022 Frederick Gage Todd National Scholarship! Click the following button to read more about Nicole, the jury's decision, and what the scholarship means to her.
Other News
Ontario Place Redevelopment Project Hosts Virtual Public Consultation
Zoom: Thursday, October 27, 2022, 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
A public consultation is your opportunity to weigh in on decisions the government is making on your behalf. Your expertise and input can be influential to the development process prior to finalization. The Ontario Place's proposed public realm design options and the Environmental Assessment process invites you to continue to share your vision, thoughts, and experiences.
At this event, you will be able to share your feedback on the future public spaces and parkland (public realm) at Ontario Place, as part of the Environmental Assessment process. The feedback received from this event, as well as previous public engagement events, will be used to create a recommended design for Ontario Place’s public spaces.
It is an opportunity to be heard!
RENZETTI: What we lose when we lose Ontario Place
On a gusty warm Sunday in September, I enjoyed a bit of paradise at the edge of Toronto. I know: Toronto and paradise, not exactly synonymous, right? Perhaps that’s because not enough people know about how gorgeous — and threatened — Ontario Place is.
A royal legacy in landscape
Following the death of Her Majesty the Queen on 8 September 2022, the next edition of the Landscape Institute journal will celebrate her lifelong service to landscape and nature.