New Opportunities Round Up

While it is often remarked that January can feel like an awfully long month (where are we at now? Day 45?), you can use these never-ending days of mostly inclement weather to prepare for February and its super-abundance of ASLA webinars and deadlines, from the ASLA Honors Call for Nominations closing on February 12, to the ASLA Conference Call for Presentations deadline on February 22 and the ASLA Professional Awards registration and payment deadline on February 23. There's a lot to prep for, as we try to stay cozy indoors!

To explore other opportunities, beyond all that ASLA has going on, check out ASLA’s RFQs, Opportunities, and Events page for information on everything from RFPs to calls for papers and design competitions. Below are just a few of the recent submissions. Anyone who would like to share an opportunity may submit information online.

Deadline: February 20, 2024 The Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery (H&LS) Memorial Project Committee invites artists, designers, architects, multi-disciplinary teams, and other creators to express their interest in conceiving a site or sites on Harvard’s Cambridge campus for commemoration and reflection, as well as for listening to and living with the University’s legacy of slavery. The Committee seeks expressions of interest from those with investments of thought and practice in memorialization, ritual, community-building, history, and questions about the future, and welcomes submissions from individuals, collaboratives, and teams rooted in traditional or non-traditional memorial practices at any stage of their career.

Deadline: February 19, 2024 The Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation (AHLP) invites submissions centered on the 2024 conference theme of Dynamism, Conservation and Many Voices in an Historic Urban Landscape. At the AHLP Conference, we will explore issues of cultural landscape conservation in this highly dynamic context, balancing the protection of our tangible and intangible heritage with critical competing priorities including (but not limited to) housing provision, climate-change response, reconciliation with Indigenous peoples to redress generations of colonial impact and chart new futures, and supporting the diversity that makes our city a progressive, vibrant, culturally rich place in which to live.

Deadline: February 28, 2024 The SCUP Excellence Award honors achievement in strategic, integrated planning that results in exemplary buildings and grounds, institutional success, and careers that inspire. This award is a juried competition open to professional service providers and institutions that have prepared designs or plans for two-year and four-year colleges, universities, academic medical and research centers, and public or private institutions. [For more on SCUP, see James Moore, ASLA's observations from the 2023 Awards.]

Deadline: March 13, 2024 With this global design competition, the design platform What Design Can Do is seeking creative solutions to address the climate crisis and kickstart the transition to a fair and circular future. Changemakers everywhere are invited to submit ideas to radically redesign the world we live in — our products, materials, stories, systems, services and spaces — through a circular and regenerative lens.

Deadline: April 19, 2024 The Architect’s Newspaper Best of Practice Awards celebrate the breadth and merit of offices from across North America's AEC industry, from architects to developers, landscape architects, interior designers, facade consultants, lighting designers, engineers, and more. In order to recognize new talent in the industry, this year AN is introducing a new discount for emerging practices. This 50 percent price reduction is applicable to businesses that were founded within the last five years when they enter any of our 20 categories.

See ASLA’s RFQs, Opportunities, and Events page for other calls for submissions, competitions, and events.

For a comprehensive list of national events of interest to landscape architects, see ASLA’s Conferences for Landscape Architects page.

For more about fellowship opportunities for landscape architects, see ASLA’s Scholarships and Fellowships page.