Margot Kopache, Frederick Gage Todd National Scholarship
Margot outlined her passion for landscape architecture through a very well-developed approach. Jury members felt that her approach was ‘hands on’ and ‘down to earth’ while communicating a clear and ambitious ‘vision’. Margot's personal statement revealed her diverse areas of interest in nature, art, science and discussed how landscape architecture can play a role in engaging and repairing the damaged relationship between people and the environment.
Margot proposes community-based actions and the use (and reuse) of available resources, including what are considered “waste materials”. Her ideas and focus on community responsibility are inspiring and offer an optimistic view into the future and our profession’s role in bettering the world. Margot's application was supported by a very enthusiastic letter of reference which affirms the applicants commitment to her chosen profession.
Jordan Cantafio, Peter Jacobs Indigenous Scholarship and the BC2 Indigenous Scholarship
Jordan Cantafio is a Red River Métis student at the University of Manitoba, currently completing an internship towards his Master's degree in Landscape Architecture. Jordan expresses his sincere gratitude for being recognized and rewarded with these scholarships. Supporting indigenous students in this field is very important for the present and future of landscape architecture, and enables Indigenous voices to be at the forefront of this profession, displaying an abundance of knowledge and experience with the land.
LACF Congratulates the Recipients of the 2023 Regional Scholarships
Traci Berg: Canadian Landscape Charter | University of Calgary Scholarship
Traci Berg is a Master of Landscape Architecture ('24) candidate at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape. She has earned a commendable cumulative Grade Point Average (GPA) of 3.93, which demonstrates her excellent all-around capability, passion and commitment to acquiring landscape architecture knowledge and skills, and her potential for a future meaningful professional contribution to the preservation, transformation and creation of Canadian landscapes. She is currently serving as the Program’s AALA student representative. Her active engagement in the interdisciplinary pan-Canada project SSHRC Partnership: Quality in Canada's Built Environment, as a Research Assistant, is worth mentioning.
Erin Schwab: University of Calgary MLA Scholarship
Erin was nominated on account of the scholarship criterion of design creativity and academic excellence. Her work across the design studio sequence has demonstrated avant-garde qualities, such as risk-taking, experimentation, and innovation through spatial design, graphic representation, and conceptual thinking.
McKenna Schentag: SALA Academic Award
McKenna Schentag is a master’s candidate in her second year of studies at the University of Calgary, with an undergraduate degree in Regional and Urban Planning from the University of Saskatchewan. Her academic record and recommendation letters speak to her commitment to her studies and academic excellence, while her employment history shows a deep interest in public landscapes and environmental design. She is a Saskatchewan student who was required to leave the province to study landscape architecture, an academic high-achiever, and as a burgeoning designer with a commitment to the profession.
Lucas Schramiak: Bourse d’étude du 50e anniversaire de l’AAPQ
Lucas Schramiak is a curious student, an avid draftsman. This future landscape architect likes to try things out, to take risks, to approach his project in many different ways. He loves being pushed beyond his limits by his teachers and colleagues. Very receptive to feedback, he welcomes it enthusiastically, then uses it to improve his project. His design skills are evident throughout the project process, even in his analyses, which are presented in a highly inventive manner. Finally, his teachers are quick to point out that his pleasant demeanor is always a plus!
Megan Haralovich: Alain Lamontagne (Guelph BLA)
Schol
arship and Maglin-LACF Scholarship
Megan Haralovich epitomizes the positive impact landscape architecture can have in social space development. Her work on the 2022 Winter Stations project, centered on Indigenous community-inspired social spaces, was remarkable. Megan's research into the meaning of these spaces demonstrated success. Her penchant for independent research, occasionally challenging convention, shows resilience and a refreshing approach. She meticulously prepares for classes and presentations, revealing a deep understanding of course material. Megan's courage in posing questions when uncertain exemplifies her commitment to progress, making her a standout recipient for this scholarship.
Dallas Canavan: University of Guelph BLA Scholarship
Dallas Canavan is a top 5% ranking due to her impressive 90% GPA, she consistently produces original work, excelling in the often-overlooked transition from schematic design to design development. Her commitment to this process is evident through exceptional diligence in design research. Moreover, Dallas's strong collaborative skills, proactive leadership, and adept balancing of team dynamics, academic requirements, and personal objectives make her an exceptional choice for this scholarship. Her remarkable ability to drive project success stands out.
Craig Klomp: University of Guelph MLA Scholarship and
Maglin-LACF Scholarship
Since the inception of his program, Craig has consistently upheld a top-tier GPA, showcasing excellence in all design studios. Securing a competitive internship with Design Workshop further attests to his ability. Notably, Craig contributed to a winning team in the 2023 Winter Stations international design competition. His unwavering commitment to outstanding design work distinguishes him as an exemplary candidate.
Izzy Mink: University of Toronto MLA
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larship, Lemay-LACF Scholarship
and Maglin-LACF Scholarship
Izzy Mink is a creative individual and thinker. Her design process
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d proposals strive to find new avenues for landscape architecture that promote social inclusion in creative ways that foster environmental stewardship. In her studio and seminars, she has consistently demonstrated outstanding drawing and design talent, research and writing capabilities, and extensive plant knowledge. She was a graduate mentor for the summer Indigenous youth program and was instrumental to curriculum development and delivery and the mentorship of Indigenous high school students. She plays an executive role in the Daniels graduate student organization, further demonstrating leadership and dedication to her community.
Kailee Meakin: Andre Schwabenbauer / University of Manitoba MLA Scholarship
Kailee Meakin is interested in supporting others, she served as vice president and now president of the Landscape Architecture Student Association at the University of Manitoba, carrying a lot of work without complaint. With a steady pace and ever-present smile, Kailee was instrumental in planting 16,500 bulbs for the 50th Anniversary of the Department of Landscape Architecture. Showing up daily, Kailee is dedicated to getting work done and is attentive as a volunteer leader in true collaboration. Her strong research skills and deep interest in Manitoba’s North drive her academic success and advocacy.
Jenna Frizzell: Peter Klynstra Memorial Scholarship
Jenna Frizzell is a second year BLA student at the University of Guelph, from Prince Edward Island. She’s a motivated, intelligent, inquisitive, responsible and dependable student, and passionate about the built environment, mitigating human impacts on the environment, and concerned with the quality of life for all. She plans to return to her home province to increase the representation of landscape architecture on the Island. This scholarship is awarded in recognition of her accomplishments and potential to advance the profession of landscape architecture in Atlantic Canada.
Hannah Bennett: Atlantic Landscape | Dalhousie Scholarship
Hannah Bennett is a fourth-year student in Dalhousie University’s Bachelor of Technology Landscape Architecture program. She’s been a consistently high achieving student and made a great contribution to student life as a volunteer, and this year president of LANDS, the LA student society. To round out her accomplishments she’s also on the faculty golf team. She’s taken up landscape work for the several summers to build her understanding and abilities. Hannah came to Dalhousie from Shaunavon, SK, but hopes to find professional work in the Maritimes after graduation in spring 2024. This scholarship is awarded in recognition of her accomplishments and her potential to advance the profession of landscape architecture in Atlantic Canada.
Elliot Bellis: University of British Columbia Scholarship
Elliot has shown a deep commitment to the overlaps of ecological design, community building, and social justice during his time at UBC. He is a humble leader who creates space for community and advocacy, is open to learning, and is generous in sharing his knowledge of plants and ecology.
Kylie Ip: BCSLA Robillard Scholarship in Landscape Architecture
Kylie has shown consistently outstanding design excellence in her studios so far. The Robillard prize is given to her for her academic rigour and design ideas for small to medium site design. She showed design leadership in her studio team as well as in her role as student president for the MLA program. Kylie goes the extra mile to listen to advice and turn it in to her own design proposals.
Julie Lorrain: Bourse d’études de voyage Danièle Routaboule
After a stint as an urban beekeeper in Montreal, Julie began a Master's degree in Landscape Architecture at the Université de Montréal to combine her passions for ecology and planning. This experience with bees revealed the importance of ecological connections in urban environments. Recipient of the Danièle Routaboule scholarship, Julie seized the opportunity to visit Scandinavia, a part of the world that has always appealed to her. The subject of this trip is inspired by her reflections on the forms cemeteries of the future will take, particularly in urban environments. She's interested in the ecological potential of cemeteries, but also in our rituals and how they shape landscapes. This travel-research project will take her to a variety of cemeteries to understand new trends in design. For example, the concept of a commemorative park where light recreational users intermingle with areas for contemplation.
Adrianna Anastacio: Maglin-LACF Scholarship, University of Manitoba MLA
Adrianna demonstrates excellence in her studies while kindly helping colleagues. She has passion and enthusiasm for the discipline of landscape architecture. Increasingly, students have to work to support themselves, which inevitably impacts their studies. Adrianna is one of these students; it affects the time she can spend at the university in the studio. However, she is an organized, intelligent graduate student who critically questions material while exhibiting a calm, thoughtful, engaged, and dedicated commitment to the discipline.
Chelsea Dawn Robins: Maglin-LACF Scholarship, Dalhousie Bachelor of Technology – Landscape Architecture
Chelsea Dawn Robins is a high performing fourth-year student in the Bachelor of Technology – Landscape Architecture program at Dalhousie University. Her past studies, work experience and volunteer activity demonstrate her interest in sustainable design. She’s been involved in Dalhousie’s landscape student society, professional work in small communities in Nova Scotia, and development of her own homestead and forest garden. She brings energy, enthusiasm and experience to her studies and the student community. After graduation she will pursue her interest regenerative design through community-based design work, helping people improve their relationship with the natural world.
Claire Heidenreich: Maglin-LACF Scholarship, University of Calgary MLA
Claire is an engaged, creative, and ambitious student, with a deep appreciation for the natural world. She has spearheaded a student-lead project called the “Avant-garden”, charged with naturalizing the university campus with native plants, and strives for the preservation and enhancement of native plant communities through her design projects.
Kevin Wong: Maglin-LACF Scholarship, UBC
Kevin Wong is an outstanding landscape architecture student who has consistently demonstrated excellence in the Landscape Architecture program at UBC. His design work consistently exceeded expectation, which combined with his diligent work ethic and understated communication style made him an invaluable collaborator among his classmates. The entire studio benefitted from his contributions.
Josiane Roy: Maglin-LACF Scholarship, l'Université de Montréal
Josiane Roy graduated first in art history, then in environmental design, and is currently completing her master's degree in landscape architecture. The combination of the more theoretical field of art history and the more creative field of design has enabled her to develop a particular sensitivity to the transformative power of design and its potential to reveal the history of a given place, elements that she now transposes into her role as landscape architecture designer at Lemay.
Particularly sensitive to the challenges posed by climate change for cities, Josiane wishes to contribute to the design of tomorrow's urban spaces to make them more resilient and inclusive. Her aim is to make people aware of the richness of the landscapes that surround them, and to promote, preserve and enhance them through projects that transcend scale.
Winner of the 2023 edition of the Rinox prize for emerging landscape architects, Josiane places particular importance on integrating her projects into the existing environment, proposing innovative design solutions that emerge from the inherent qualities of the site of intervention. The award of the Maglin - LACF bursary attests to Josiane's potential to pursue a career as a landscape architect, a profession she sees as vital to the future of cities.