Common Space Coalition are landscape architects across Canada whose goal is to combat racism and promote diversity in our professional practice through research and advocacy.
Common Space Directory will be an online resource for landscape architects to connect with grassroots activists and community leaders where our professions intersect. Our goal is to leverage our expanding network of landscape architects and allied professionals to research, catalogue, and curate a freely accessible web platform highlighting ongoing community, non-profit, and volunteer initiatives operating adjacent to the professional scope of landscape architects.
The Directory will help landscape architects capitalize on the grassroots work that is already being done in the communities they serve, and incorporate it into the design process for highly resilient, multi-generational, sensitive, and enduring Canadian landscape architecture that responds directly to its social, cultural, and historical context. The Common Space Directory will push landscape architecture towards a hybridized discipline that considers social justice, sustainability, and human dignity above all.