Opportunities Round Up

In case you missed any of these opportunities newly added to ASLA's RFQs, Opportunities, and Events page amidst all the hubbub of April's many ASLA chapter conferences and World Landscape Architecture Month festivities, here's a round up of fresh additions to the list.

While you make note of all these dates, be sure to also check out ASLA's upcoming webinars, help yourself to some free professional development hours (LA CES PDH), and send a friendly nudge to any landscape architecture students you know: this Friday, April 25, at 11:59 p.m. (Pacific) is the deadline to register for the ASLA Student Awards, with submissions due May 9.

If you have an opportunity or event to share, all are welcome to submit them via the ASLA website.

Deadline: May 6, 2025

Do you know a designer whose innovation and impact is improving our world? Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has announced the 26th annual National Design Awards open call for nominations. Categories include Landscape Architecture, Climate Action, Design Visionary, Digital Design, and Emerging Designer.

Deadline: May 12, 2025

Riverlife seeks a transportation planner to explore the broader impacts of possible expansion scenarios of Allegheny Riverfront Park in Pittsburgh. AECOM completed a preliminary Transportation Impact Study (TIS) in September 2023, but the scope was fairly limited, and it was recommended that a broader view be taken to more thoroughly assess existing traffic conditions and outline transportation impacts and opportunities throughout the Golden Triangle and Strip District resulting from any proposed expansions of the park.

Deadline: May 16, 2025

The New River Gorge Regional Development Authority (NRGRDA) in partnership with the Fayette County Commission is leading a planning and development effort focused on the 900+ acre parcel known as Wolf Creek Park located between Oak Hill and Fayetteville in Fayette County, West Virginia. NRGRDA is seeking multidisciplinary design firms and planning and development consultants to undertake planning and predevelopment activities for Wolf Creek Park, including the development of a master site plan. The site plan shall incorporate a phased development plan for residential and mixed-use development, alongside identification of desirable parcels for recreation access, trail development, and conservation.

Deadline: June 1, 2025

The Urban Land Institute San Francisco (ULI SF) and the Civic Joy Fund are co-sponsoring  this international call for ideas that identify new urban possibilities for downtown San Francisco’s Market Street, responding to the disruptions caused by the pandemic, remote work, and other cultural changes. This is a time to think differently, to escape the traps embedded in techniques and assumptions of the past, and venture into the speculative possibilities of an urbanism not yet discovered. Using San Francisco’s Market Street as a subject, competitors are asked: “How might a new set of ideas be developed to address the challenges in post-pandemic city cores enabling them to flourish in ways that are economically viable and experientially uplifting?”

Deadline: June 6, 2025

Pacific Conservation District invites consultants to submit proposals to provide graphics, project scoping, grant writing assistance, and related services for the Lower Willapa River Resilience Project. In collaboration with Washington Sea Grant and the cities of South Bend and Raymond, PCD is hosting community workshops and providing technical assistance to address flooding, habitat, and climate change concerns across the Lower Willapa River area. The selected consultant will support this work through the creation of accessible graphics for adaptation workshops in 2025, and assistance with project scoping and grant writing for three priority projects through late 2026. Projects are not yet identified but possible outcomes include: green stormwater infrastructure, drainage infrastructure, roadway adaptations, and more.

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.