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As we savor every moment of this last week of August, a friendly nudge that today—Tuesday, August 26—is the advanced rate registration deadline for the ASLA Conference on Landscape Architecture.
September and its flurry of activity, from the continuation of the Making the Economic Case for Landscape Architecture webinar series to Park(ing) Day, will be here before you know it, so take some time in the pre-holiday weekend lull to plan ahead for fall. ASLA's RFQs and Opportunities and Conferences for Landscape Architects lists have plenty to explore as we close out summer and look ahead.
Below are a few of the new additions from ASLA's RFQs, Opportunities, and Events page. If you have an opportunity or event to share, all are welcome to submit them via the ASLA website.
Biodiversity + Maintenance Surveys
Brenna Castro Carlson, ASLA, PLA, and Haven Kiers are conducting research funded by the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF)'s Deb Mitchell Research Grant entitled Keeping Up: Maintenance and Management of Ecologically Vibrant Landscapes. The project investigates the maintenance-related challenges to creating habitat and increasing biodiversity in large-scale public and institutional landscapes.
Please share your knowledge about the relationship between biodiversity and landscape maintenance by completing a short 5-7 minute survey:
- Survey for landscape architects, designers, and planners
- Survey for landscape managers and maintenance workers
Please take a moment to participate or share these links among your networks.
Call for Abstracts: Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) Annual ConferenceDeadline: September 15, 2025
Join us in Cincinnati for the 2026 Annual CELA Conference and let’s collectively explore how connection across methods, disciplines, and communities can become a catalyst for producing more impactful outcomes for integration and innovation in landscape architecture. Through shared inquiry and diverse perspectives, we aim to strengthen the networks, practices, and ideas that will shape our field into the future.
Call for Presentations: Ecological Landscape Alliance (ELA) Annual Conference & Eco-MarketplaceDeadline: September 19, 2025
ELA is excited to announce a Call for Presentations for the 2026 Annual Conference & Eco-Marketplace to be held on February 4-5, 2026, in Providence, Rhode Island. We invite researchers, practitioners, and experts in ecological horticulture, resilient land management, and sustainable land planning to submit proposals for presentations, workshops, and panel discussions that align with the theme Navigating Uncertainty.
The Resilient Campus International Design CompetitionDeadline: September 26, 2025
The Resilient Campus challenges architects, landscape architects, planners, and other allied design professionals to boldly envision the University at Buffalo’s South Campus—a public campus on its way to becoming carbon neutral—as a socio-ecologically integrated landscape that engages the pressing and intertwined challenges of climate change. As a forward-looking academic environment, its design should foster a resilient, adaptable, and inclusive setting that recognizes and integrates the interdependencies among its many constituencies and species, human and non-human.
The Resilient Campus is a two-stage competition. Three Architecture / Landscape Architecture teams with proven expertise in resilience have been pre-selected to the Stage Two Competition. In this call (Stage One), up to four (4) teams will be selected through an open call for RFQs.
Voices of Women in Landscape Architecture: Call for WILA Profile SubmissionsOngoing
The ASLA Women in Landscape Architecture Professional Practice Network (WILA PPN)'s 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.
In case you need a few more reasons to get excited for ASLA 2025 in October (though going to NOLA is reason enough), check out the rapidly expanding program offerings available to peruse in the ASLA Conference on Landscape Architecture, from Game Changer presentations and Learning Labs to Professional Practice Network (PPN) events.