$115,000 Pledged at CSLA-MALA Congress
Supporters came together to pledge $115,000 in just two and a half days at the 2024 CSLA-MALA Congress in Winnipeg in May. This will help advance LACF programs and initiatives aimed at creating a more sustainable, equitable, and resilient future for all.
If you have yet to fulfill your pledge, you can make your gift on our website. Thank you for helping us empower future leaders and innovative researchers in the profession of landscape architecture.
Regional Scholarship Applications Open (Deadline September 30)
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.
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Research Grant Applications Open (Deadline November 15)
The LACF Grants Jury is 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. Grant applicants should push beyond the boundaries of everyday practice.
We invite applications from CSLA professionals, educators, PhD candidates and others seeking to explore or question an issue or particular interest they believe to be crucial to the profession or to the landscape.
LACF-Funded Research Reports
1640 Riverside Road: Case Study Research on the Decolonization of Contemporary Architecture and Design Practice
This study investigates changing relationships and ways of knowing during the architecture and landscape architecture design process in the context of designing supportive housing that is reflective of the local cultural landscape. Findings show that cultural advisory services were delivered through a continuous cultural engagement which created a sense of heightened creativity, a continuum of knowledge coordination, and a compounding of values. Findings also show that building relations in the design team established trust and heightened creativity. The design team added what we have called “placeholders” for programming the site with imagined designs. These placeholders are maintaining space in the site design, and a budget line-item, for future design of ethnobotanical gardens, creative artistic motifs, and places for and cultural practice
Native Plant Procurement in the Landscape Industry: Understanding Barriers, Challenges, and Issues with Initial Recommendations for New Best Practices
The report 'Native Plant Procurement in the Landscape Industry' summarizes findings from three focus group discussions held in December of 2023, as well as two landscape project case studies that demonstrate creative alternatives to procurement. Through this compilation of multi-sector perspectives on improving native plant supply issues, the findings highlight both significant challenges and opportunities in several areas pertinent to landscape architects including contracts, policy and funding, certification, and education.