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Heading into the closing stretch of 2024, now's the time to get things together so you can catch any late-breaking deadlines in the weeks ahead and be prepared for what's coming up within the first few months of the new year. First, a quick recap of ASLA deadlines on the horizon:
Registration deadline: January 31, 2025 Submission deadline: March 7, 2025
Deadline: February 1, 2025
Deadline: February 14, 2025
ASLA 2025 Conference on Landscape Architecture Call for Presentations
Call opens: January 7, 2025 Deadline: February 18, 2025
Registration deadline: April 25, 2025 Submission deadline: May 9, 2025
For even more opportunities, from ASLA and beyond, see our RFQs, Opportunities, and Events page. Highlighted below are a few submissions with deadlines approaching. If you have an opportunity or event to share, all are welcome to submit them via the ASLA website. RFQ: Planning Services for Georgetown Revitalization, Redding, CTDeadline: December 9, 2024
The Town of Redding, Connecticut, seeks submissions from qualified planning consultants to support the revitalization and redevelopment of the Gilbert & Bennett Wire Mill brownfield site and the surrounding Georgetown village area of Redding. The Town’s overriding goal is to promote Georgetown’s livability and business potential by making necessary zoning changes, sensitively restoring and re-using the major elements of the former wire mill, taking down the fences to integrate the mill site into the overall village environment, and encourage investment in a walkable town center that provides amenities not currently available in town.
LABash Call for Speakers
Deadline: December 15, 2024
LABash Seed Fund applications deadline: January 19, 2025The 2025 student-led conference LABash will return to the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, March 12 - 15, 2025. Our theme is “Reimagine,” focusing on the future of landscape architecture through innovative responses to contemporary issues during a time of change. LABash is currently calling for speakers and building support for our Seed Fund, which was started by the students of Cornell University in 2021, aiming to address the inequities and financial barriers for students to attend LABash.
RFP: Park and Open Space Plan Update City of Oak Creek, WIDeadline: December 16, 2024
The City of Oak Creek is seeking a qualified firm to assist in updating its Park and Open Space Plan, originally adopted in 2013. This updated plan will not only build upon the foundation established by the 2013 document, but will also incorporate the City’s Strategic Action Plan to guide the acquisition and development of public outdoor parks and recreation facilities to meet the needs of our community. Additionally, it will serve to protect and enhance our natural resource base and enable the City to apply for federal and state funding for park and recreational projects.
Deadline: January 10, 2025
The Bayou Vermilion District in Lafayette, Louisiana, is searching for a firm to help us engage our community and develop a new master plan to take the Bayou Vermilion District forward. The District seeks an interdisciplinary team to prepare a comprehensive replacement for its Master Plan (1985) that will highlight success and accomplishments since the 1985 plan, address current challenges and needs, and chart a course for the next decades for the District to continue to achieve progress consistent with its mission.
Open Call for Participation for PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity at the 19th International Biennale ArchitetturaDeadline: January 17, 2025
For the United States Pavilion at the 19th International Biennale Architettura of La Biennale di Venezia, the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, University of Arkansas, in partnership with DesignConnects and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, have been commissioned by the United States Department of State to organize and curate an exhibition focused on the representation of the United States of America, at its best, in architectural means and in national character, through the contemporary manifestation of "the porch"—of that quintessentially constructed American place that is at once social, environmental, tectonic, performative, hospitable, generous, democratic.
Ongoing
ASLA's Women in Landscape Architecture Professional Practice Network (WILA PPN) call for submissions from women in the profession remains open. All are welcome to share this call—the PPN hopes to highlight diverse voices of landscape architects, including those who are active in their chapters or in their local communities, with perspectives from all career path stages, wherever that path may be taking you. Profiles are being shared on social media and here on The Field to celebrate women in landscape architecture who are shaping our environment.
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 federal funding opportunities and grants, see ASLA's members-only Notice of Funding Opportunities page.
For more about fellowship opportunities for landscape architects, see ASLA’s Scholarships and Fellowships page.
