FUTURE | L’AVENIR
Queries/Drafts due date: August 16, 2024
Final copy due date: September 23, 2024
Guest Editors: Jennifer Wan + Kulsum Fatima
Students in the BLA and MLA programs at University of Guelph | Photos by Ryan De Jong
Despite celebrating the 90th anniversary of the CSLA in 2024, landscape architecture remains a relatively young and constantly evolving field. Whether technological, environmental or societal, there is an abundance of change to which landscape architects must adapt. As professionals pivot and seek solutions to emerging challenges, how is landscape architecture education adapting to equip the next generation of practitioners with necessary skills and knowledge?
The Winter 2024 issue of Landscapes | Paysages is unique in that our guest editors are students. As a result, we want to delve into landscape architecture education and hear directly from students, educators and researchers about how they are addressing changes in the field, where they see the greatest needs, and how they are moving forward. What does the future of landscape architecture education look like? What is working well and what needs to change? How are students, professors and researchers innovating and rising to meet the future of landscape architecture in a proactive manner? Let’s explore the fields of sustainability, pedagogy, research, technology, advocacy… Anything that concerns the future of landscape architecture education is within the scope of this issue!
The three overarching themes for this issue are education, innovation and advocacy. Here are some questions to consider as you prepare your submission:
- What issues are most important to you as a student, educator, researcher or practitioner?
- How is your workplace or place of study addressing these issues? How could these efforts be improved?
- How are you and your colleagues integrating advocacy into your study, research, pedagogy, or practice?
- How are you and your colleagues bringing innovation into pedagogy or practice?
- What recent changes do you perceive in pedagogy and practice?
- What further changes would be beneficial?
- As you embark on your professional career, what values will guide you? What do you hope to achieve?
Please send ideas, abstracts, or draft articles to:
Jennifer Wan, Guest Editor, qwan02@uoguelph.ca
Kulsum Fatima, Guest Editor, kulsum.fatima@ucalgary.ca
Laurie Blake, Managing Editor, lp@csla-aapc.ca
General Guidelines for Contributors
Deadlines
- Deadline for article ideas, abstracts or rough Drafts is August 16, 2024 (or earlier).
- Final Draft submission deadline is September 23, 2024 (or earlier).
Article Guidelines
- Article length:
- Feature articles to be 1400-1600 words
- Short articles to be 300-500 words
- Illustrations: Please supply about 12 illustrations for a feature article and 1-2 for short articles. All images must be high resolution (300 dpi) and include captions and photo credit. Further Photo guidelines will be supplied separately, upon request.
Biography
Please provide a brief bio (around 50 words), a photograph, your preferred email address and a mailing address (for complimentary copies). Our authors are the voice of LP, and our readers appreciate knowing where you are coming from. In your brief bio, please DO include a mention of your work or home base – but please keep the data brief. Instead, we invite you to use the space to tell us something about yourself, and your link to the story you are telling in the magazine, or to the issue’s theme.
A sample bio is provided below:
Ryan Wakshinski is a CSLA-Award-winning landscape architect from Winnipeg, where he has worked for the Manitoba government since 2009. He is part of a multi-disciplinary team responsible for a $10-million dollar annual capital project program, including all facets of design, development and construction. He has a five year-old daughter named Hazel, plays golf for relaxation and practices Vipassana Meditation to come to terms with how he plays golf.