CSLA News
ASLA Highlights "Lessons from Canada"
The American Society of Landscape Architects' blog, THE DIRT, recently featured an online discussion organized by the ASLA Climate & Biodiversity Action Committee and the CSLA. In the session, titled "Local Leadership on Climate and Biodiversity: Lessons from Nunavut, Vancouver, and Toronto," three Canadian landscape architects working in government outlined how they are moving beyond national plans and preparing communities and ecosystems for a changing world.
Upcoming Webinar: AI in Landscape Architecture: Join the Conversation
The CSLA invites you to take part in two important initiatives exploring the intersection of AI and design:
Webinar: Generative Futures: Opportunities and Disruptions for Landscape Architecture with Jeff Cutler
Thursday, September 18 | 2:00 p.m. (ET)
Note: This event will be held in English with French translation services provided.
Note: This event will be held in English with French translation services provided.
Participate in a Research Survey
The CSLA, ASLA, and IFLA are launching an improved survey to reflect current AI capabilities and encompass diverse cultural and regional contexts. We will repeat this survey every few years to track long-term adoption and use. Your input is vital for understanding the impact of AI on landscape architecture worldwide.
Please take a moment to share your thoughts and help shape the future of our profession.
Upcoming Webinar: Dealing with Microaggressions in the Workplace
Wednesday, September 24 at 1:00 ET
This presentation will cover:
- What are microaggressions vs macroaggressions
- What is workplace conflict
- How these feed conflict in the workplace
- Intention vs Impact
- Why/how/when to address microaggressions as the target, offender, or bystander
This event will be held in English with French translation services provided.
Call for Volunteers: CSLA’s 100th Anniversary Task Force
Are you interested in volunteering with the CSLA and joining colleagues to plan the celebrations of the CSLA’s 100th Anniversary in 2034?
The 100th Anniversary Task Force will be responsible for creating and implementing an action plan supported by the Board, the Executive Director and members at large.
Visit CSLA's new Volunteer Opportunities page for more information, and to keep up to date with other opportunities to get involved:
landADAPT: Year One Survey
The first year of the landADAPT program is complete — and what a year it has been. Now, we need your feedback!
Please complete the year one program evaluation survey. Your feedback will help us:
- Identify gaps in research and resources
- Assess the effectiveness of the landADAPT program to date
- Shape future CSLA professional development offerings on climate change and biodiversity
Whether you have attended a landADAPT session yet or not, your input is essential for the CSLA to fulfill the monitoring and evaluation component of our funding agreement with Natural Resources Canada (NRCan).
Did you miss a webinar? Don’t worry! The recordings are available on our website, and you can watch (or rewatch) them anytime. Closed captions are available in both English and French. Visit the webinar archive here.
Call for “Playful” articles for Winter 2025 Landscapes | Paysages
Few of us will be surprised to learn that several reports out across the globe indicate that stress levels are on the rise. For this reason, we decided to take a little break in L/P’s upcoming Winter 2025 issue to look at the concept of play, for all ages, and how some of you may be incorporating this into your work. We have received some great queries and ideas already, but we can still fit in a few more and invite CSLA members, and other interested professionals, to send in their ideas.
We’d like to receive these queries/ideas by the end of the first week of September. Please check out our Call for Submissions or send an email directly to managing editor Laurie Blake at lp@csla-aapc.ca.
College of Fellows: Don't Forget to Register for the KEEP Program
Share your wealth of knowledge and experience by registering for the CSLA KEEP Program.
The CSLA College of Fellows KEEP Program aims to foster professional growth, knowledge exchange, and skill development among students, associates (interns), emerging practitioners, mid-career professionals and senior practitioners through an informal networking relationship.
CLS Survey: Share Your Feedback
The CLS Steering Committee is asking all members and users of the CLS to respond to a short survey.
Your feedback will be used to help improve the content of the CLS and its dissemination.
Deadline: Tuesday, September 9, 2025
2025 ASLA Conference on Landscape Architecture
Are you a CSLA member attending the ASLA conference in New Orleans in October?
If you would like to connect with other CSLA members attending the conference, please email Michelle Legault at executive-director@csla-aapc.ca and she will include your contact in a group email with others who will be in New Orleans. Learn more about the ASLA conference here.
Member News
Three CSLA Members to sit on 200-Block Banff Avenue Redevelopment Architectural Design Competition Jury
The Royal Architectural Institute Of Canada (RAIC) | L'Institut royal d'architecture du Canada (IRAC has announced the jury panel for the 200-Block Banff Avenue Redevelopment Architectural Design Competition, sponsored by Parks Canada. The jury is comprised of nine professionally qualified individuals including CSLA members Catherine Berris, Naomi Ratte and Janet Rosenberg.
Toronto's Love Park Wins People's Choice at 2025 AZ Awards
The public selected Love Park (CCxA with Gh3* and Arup) as the best in the Landscape Architecture category of the 2025 AZ Awards, which have honoured the best in architecture and design across the globe for 15 years. A total of eight Canadian projects were recognized as winners in this year's competition.
Call for Volunteers: External Review Committee for the BCSLA Fee Guide (ERC)
The BCSLA Professional Fee Guide Subcommittee is calling for volunteers who would like to serve on the External Review Committee (ERC). The Committee will review and provide feedback on the draft BCSLA Fee Guide to ensure it reflects current practice and meets the needs of the profession. We are seeking volunteers to represent the following categories:
- 1 Architect (AIBC)
- 1 Engineer (EGBC)
- 1 Public Sector Landscape Architect (working outside the Lower Mainland)
- 1 Developer
- 1 Municipal Procurement Representative
- Up to 3 Private Sector BCSLA Practitioners
2025 AAPQ Conference and 60th Anniversary Gala
Prospectives et paysages : imaginer et agir!
Thursday, September 11, 2025 – 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Each year, the AAPQ's annual conference brings together the largest number of landscape architects in Quebec, as well as urban planners, developers, architects, municipal officials, local government representatives, and other professionals involved in the sustainable development of our territories.
This year's theme will explore visions of the future and concrete actions that are transforming our living environments. The conference will feature lectures, Pecha Kucha-style presentations, an exhibitors' fair, and numerous networking opportunities.
LACF News
Submit your project for a 2026 LACF Research Grant
Design, Speculate, Postulate, Question, Research, Theorize, Explore
The LACF Research Grants are open to submissions exploring new design theories, speculations about new landscape interventions, questioning the current norms of practice, and arguing for new areas of research and professional development, as well as submissions seeking to expand the traditional areas of landscape research.
NEW! LACF has increased the funding amounts available for 2026. Up to $12,500 for the professionals and up to $5,000 for students.
Deadline: October 15, 2025
LACF Regional Scholarships and Deadlines
We are proud to collaborate with CSLA component associations, organizations, universities, firms, sponsors and individuals to host a growing number of partnered scholarships for landscape architecture students across the country.
Click through to see what scholarships are available in your region and learn how to apply.
Partner News
Partnership Opportunity with the Urban ReVision: BIPOC Mentorship Studio
CityHive is seeking a core project partner who needs new energy and ideas on city/neighbourhood plans and projects and is committed to centering BIPOC youth perspectives in city shaping and decision-making processes.
If your municipality, planning firm, or civic organization needs fresh BIPOC youth perspectives and innovative solutions to an urban challenge, we invite you to partner with us! For example, you might need insights on:
- Best practices for engaging communities on sustainable transportation modes.
- Ideas for planning sustainable and culturally vibrant neighborhoods.
- Strategies for developing more accessible and youth-friendly third spaces.
Happy Cities Age- and Dementia-Inclusive Neighbourhood Design Guidelines
Happy Cities recently published a new planning resource on age- and dementia-inclusive neighbourhoods, in partnership with the DemSCAPE project led by Dr. Habib Chaudhury at Simon Fraser University (with funding from the Alzheimer Society of BC and Public Health Agency of Canada).
These new planning and design guidelines offer a free resource that landscape architects and planners can use to learn about and implement age- and dementia-inclusive actions in their communities. The guidelines are available in both a print (PDF) format and a series of interactive, online learning modules.
Park(ing) Day Toronto 2025 calls for participants
September 19, 2025
Park(ing) Day is a global, public, participatory project where people across the world temporarily repurpose curbside parking spaces and convert them into public parks and social spaces to advocate for safer, greener, and more equitable streets for people.