2012 Grants Policy and Application Information

Grant Focus 2012 Design: Speculate: Postulate: Question: Research: Theorize: Explore

In their submissions, members of the profession are encouraged to push beyond the boundaries of everyday practice.  The Grants Committee jury is open to submissions exploring new design theories, speculations about new landscape interventions, questioning the current norms of practice, and arguing for new areas of research and professional development, as well as submissions seeking to expand the traditional areas of landscape research.

Proposed research may be in the form of designs, articles, papers, and essays.  In all instances the successful proponents are encouraged to promote the wide dissemination of their design-research results in the larger public realm as well as within the profession.

The jury recognizes that the sums awarded by the Foundation are, at best, “seed monies” to instigate further design-research investigation.  Preference will be given to those submissions that look beyond the immediate requirements and results of this award. Members of the profession are encouraged to take this opportunity to push the boundaries of inquiry, take some risks, and to enjoy the beginnings of a longer- term journey!

2012  Funding

For 2012, grants up to $10,000 are available to AAPC/CSLA professionals, educators or others seeking to explore or question an issue or particular interest they believe to be crucial to the profession or to the landscape.

In addition, two grants of $2,000 each are offered to graduate students pursuing their thesis or final project for work whose study focus is in keeping with the mandate of the Foundation.

Applicants may apply for additional funding in subsequent years.

Timeline

Fall 2011 Announcement of 2012 Grants Program.

November 18, 2011 Grant applications due

January  2012 Announce recipients and release of 50% of funds.

Winter/Spring 2012 Announcement of award winners in CSLA Bulletin.

December 18, 2012 Finished product submitted, final funds released.

Eligibility

LACF grant applications will be accepted from landscape architects, students, educators and others.  Members of the LACF Board of Directors, the LACF Grants Committee, its jury and their relatives are not eligible for grants. 

Promotion and Communication of Projects

As a condition of award, all recipients are strongly encouraged to publish, present or appropriately communicate the results of their work to CSLA members, the public or other audiences.  It is understood that grant recipients must allow LACF to use the end-product for purposes of promotion and visibility of LACF and to distribute results of funded projects upon requests from others. As well, successful applicants must agree to suitably acknowledge LACF as project sponsors. 

Submission  Guidelines  for  2012

Applicants are required to provide the following information in their submissions. Applications submitted without satisfying all these requirements will not be considered.

1.    Concise statement of the proposed project, not to exceed 250 words.

1. A description of the project, not to exceed 5 pages, to include statements of:  intent or purpose, methodology, significance of the project, potential usefulness or application of the results, means by which results will be communicated to others, qualifications of proponents to undertake the work and indications of support for the project from communities, users or clients. Include sufficient information to clearly demonstrate how the proposed project meets the evaluation criteria stated below. 
2. A timetable for undertaking and completing the project.
3. A detailed budget indicating how requested funds will be spent.
4. Information on other sources of funding already supporting the project or sources from which additional funding will be sought. Particular attention will be given to this point.
5. A clear statement of the end-product to be produced and how or where publication, presentation or communication of results will be achieved. 
6. A resume of the prime applicant (no more than 5 pages) and project associates and a profile of the team organization, if relevant. 
7. At least one letter of support for the proposed project, preferably from a community group, client or user.
8. Submissions must be sent in one pdf file and receipt confirmed by the Chair of the Grants programme.

10.  Submissions must be received no later than Friday, November 18, 2011.

Send submissions to: fayepaul@mnsi.net

Evaluation by the Grants Jury

The Board of Directors of LACF has established the following evaluation criteria.  Members of the LACF Grants Jury will evaluate the submissions based on these criteria.  The decisions of the jury are final.  The Jury reserves the right not to make any awards. 

1. Projects shall fit within the established philosophical framework, objectives and activities of LACF.
2. Projects shall be capable of being delivered in a form usable by LACF for promotion, visibility and fund-raising purposes. 
3. Projects shall be achievable within the timeline established by the LACF Board.
4. Proponents' qualifications shall indicate capability to undertake the project.
5. Letter(s) from communities, clients, users or other relevant parties shall indicate support for the project.
6. The overall quality of the proposal shall merit funding support.

Property Rights 

All documents submitted are the property of the LACF and will not be returned. The LACF assumes no responsibility towards participants for the loss, disappearance or destruction of documents in their application(s), nor for documents submitted late. 

 

Design: Speculate: Postulate: Question: Research: Theorize: Explore

 

“Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.“

 

  Herbert Simon, 1969 in “The Science of Design: Creating the Artificial”

“Professionalism depends on a body of knowledge about what ought to be. This is not just to do with the market; this is not knowledge in the academic sense.  This is about the application of moral obligation in the context of action. Future-seeking knowledge is what the professional bodies of medicine, law and architecture (landscape architecture) are really all about.”

Francis Duffey, 1996 in Mitchell, “New Thinking in Design”

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LACF Grants 1990 - present

No.	Year	Recipient	Project	Amount	Description
	2011	Natalie Walliser	Youth Engagement Strategy & Toolkit for Landscape Architects	$1,500
	2011	Anna Thurmayr, CSLA and Dr. Kris Dick	Alternative Surface Consolidation in Northern Climates	$2,500
	2011	NUALA (Nunavut Association of Landscape Architects)	CSLA Congress: Digital communications and Archiving	$5,000
	2011	Nicole Valois	Expo 67: Le patrimoine recent de l’architecture de paysage au Canada	$5,000	Awarded the Gunter Schoch Bursary
	2011	Don Hill	Harmony in the Square	$6,000
79	2010	Prof. Anna Thurmayr, Prof. Kris J. Dick,	Alternative Surface Consolidation in Northern Climates	$2,500	Prototype Research and Publication
78	2010	Guy Tremblay	Ce jardin est-il un écosystème, un parc ou un musée? Cinchona Gardens, Jamaica	$2,500	Research on Botanical Gardens
77	2010	UBC Design Centre for Sustainability	Getting to Minus 80: Low Carbon Community Solutions	$5,000	Research and Publication
76*	2010	Alissa North	I N N A T E T E R R A I N Contemporary Canadian Landscape Architecture	$8,000	Publication of Symposium
75	2010	Nandor Goriva	Resilient Form: Urban Design in a Dynamic Context	$2,000	Master's, U of Calgary
74	2009	Elaine Fournelle	4th A. Schwabenbauer Scholarship	$1,000
73	2009	Cyntha Girling	elementsDB	$9,000	Contemporary Open Spaces
72	2009	Hope Gunn	Climate Change Adaptation Strategies	$1,500	Master’s Candidate, U. of Manitoba
71	2009	Pierre Belanger	Landscapes Infrastructures	$7,000
70	2009	Alissa North	“Transforming Landscapes:  Four generations of $2,500 Established and Emerging Landscape Architecture Practices” Transforming Landscapes	$2,500	Display at CSLA Congress
69	2009	CSLA	Landscapes/Paysages 75th Anniversary	$2,000
68	2008	CSLA	Landscapes/Paysages 75th Anniversary	$8,000
67	2008	Andrea Martin	3rd A. Schwabenbauer Scholarship	$1,000
66	2008	U. of Guelph Library	Frances V. Blue Collection (#3)	$1,000	Additions to collections
65	2008	Alexander Reford	Garden Festival – Student Design Competion	$3,000	In progress
64	2008	Pierre Belanger	Landscapes Infrastructures Symposium	$4,000	Symposium held Oct 25/08
63	2008	Alex Man-Bourdon	Revealing Bio-remediation	$1,000	Master’s Thesis, UBC
62*	2008	Ronald F. Williams	English translation of book (Legacy Project)	$10,000	Translation
61	2008	U. of Guelph Library	Frances V. Blue Collection (#3)	$1,000	Cataloguing
60	2007	U. of Guelph Library	Frances V. Blue Collection (#2)	$1,000	Cataloguing
59	2007	CSLA	Landscapes/Paysages	$4,000	Translation - 4 issue
58	2007	Jonathan Cha	"Urban Public Space in Montreal"	$2,000	PhD thesis - in progress
57*	2007	Kathy Stinson	"C. Oberlander-Art of Possibility"	$3,000	Love Every Leaf
56	2007	Patrick Condon, UBC Centre for Sustainability	"Sustainability by Design"	$5,000	ISBN 978-0-9780966-2-5
55	2007	Ronald F. Williams	"Landscape Architecture in Canada"	$10,000	Publication preparation
54	2006	U. of Guelph Library	Frances V. Blue Collection (#1)	$5,000	Cataloguing and Web site development
53	2006	Andrea Kennedy	1st A. Schwabenbauer Scholarship	$1,000
52*	2006	James R. Taylor	Professional Practice of LA in Canada	$10,000	ISBN 0-88955-557-5
51	2006	Tracy Penner	Evaluation of School Ground Naturalization	$6,000	Survey of Evergreen Projects (pdf)
50	2006	Edith Normandeau	Plants as Soundscape Elements	$2,000	MLA Thesis, Montreal
49	2006	Yvonne Cardosa	Raising Awareness of T. Thompson Park	$2,000	MLA Thesis, Univ. of Guelph (pdf)
48	2006	CSLA-related projects	Urban Agenda & Landscapes/Paysage	$10,000
47	2005	Mustel Research Group	CSLA Marketing Research	$10,000	Research and publication
46	2005	CSLA	Landscapes/Paysages	$4,000	Translation - 4 issues
45	2005	Jennifer Foster	Land Use Planning – Milton Quarry	$2,500	Research and conference presentations
44	2003	William A. Dale	Life & Work of John Blair	$500	Research
43	2003	Robin Michel	Earthwork Design Kit	$2,000
42	2003	Mathieu Casavant & Jose Labelle	Proyectopaisage	$2,000
41	2003	Goya Ngan	Green Roof Policy	$2,500	MLA thesis, Univ. of Guelph (pdf)
40	2002	Lorraine Falconer	Designing Spiritual Landscapes	$500	MLA thesis, Univ. of Guelph
39	2002	MALA	History of L. A. in Manitoba (Phase 2)	$2,500	CD on history of LA in Manitoba
38	2002	VLAN paysages	Action-Reaction	$2,500
37	2002	Ron Williams	Evolution of L.A. in Canada	$2,500	Research towards book project
36	2001	CSLA	Landscapes/Paysages	$15,000	Translation - 5 issues
35	2001	University of Guelph	CELA 2000 Abstracts - Publication	$1,750	CELA conference abstracts publication
34	2001	D. James Mccarty	Value of Urban Forests	$1,750	MLA thesis, University of Guelph
33	2001	University of Guelph	Evaluation: Theraputic Gardens	$2,250	3 articles published based on research
32	2000	CSLA	Landscapes/Paysages CSLA Awards Issue	$7,500	Extra copies for CSLA/ASLA meeting
31	2000	College of Fellows	New Fellow Medal ($7,105 received in donations)	$10,000	Medal design and production
30	2000	Neil R. Cummingham	Living Roofs	$500	Student project
29	2000	Chantal Prud’Homme	Charte du paysage	$1,500	Policy development
28	2000	Judith Walker, BCSLA	Biography of Mary Grieg	$2,000	Research
27	2000	Nancy Pollock-Ellwand	Olmsted in Canada	$2,000	Research
26	2000	Royal Bot. Gardens	Dunington-Grubb Collectio, Phase 3	$2,000	Publication of catalogue
25	1999	CSLA	Landscapes/Paysages	$18,000	Translation - 6 issues
24	1999	CSLA	Graphic design	$2,500	Landscapes/Paysages
23	1999	Heritage Resources	Histories of Land. Arch. in Canada	$1,250	Environments, Vol. 26, No. 3, 1999
22	1999	Heritage Foundation	Canadian Heritage Garden	$2,000	Governor General Rose Garden
21	1998	Karen Landman	Social Constructions of Nature	$800	PhD. thesis at www.collectionscanada.ca
20	1998	Alissa Puhm	University of Toronto Retrospective	$1,000	ISBN 0-7727-8802-2
19	1998	Royal Bot. Gardens	Dunington-Grubb Collection, Phase 2	$2,000	Cataloguing of writings and designs
18	1998	NLALA	Art of the Land TV Documentary	$2,200	Pilot proposal
17	1997	W. Simonson	Prairie Townscape	$500	MLA thesis, Univ. of Manitoba
16	1997	Royal Bot. Gardens	Dunington-Grubb Collection, Phase 1	$1,750	Cataloguing of photographs in collection
15	1997	Linda M. LeGeyt	Oral History, Volume II	$4,750	ISBN 0-9694242-2-1 and 0-9694242-1-3
14	1996	MALA	History of L.A. in Manitoba	$2,250	Publication
13	1996	J.Latremouille	Monuments of Nature	$1,250
12	1996	Alex Law	Scenic Roads Assessment	$500	MLA thesis, Univ.of Guelph
11	1995	Beverly Sandalack	Methology for Small Town Analysis	$500	Doctoral thesis, Oxford Brookes
10	1995	J.Latremouille	Televised History of Cultural Landscape	$1,500	Pilot proposal
9	1995	C.Mercer Clarke	Water Edge Habitat Design	$3,750	Guidelines
8	1994	C.Parson	Healing and Therapeutic Garden Design Research	$1,000	Research and publication
7	1994	P.Jacobs	Frederick G. Todd Monograph	$1,000	Publication research and draft
6	1994	Linda M. LeGeyt	Oral History Project	$2,000	Interviews of 25 prominent members
5	1993	Linda M. LeGeyt	Oral History Project	$1,200	Interviews of 25 prominent members
4	1993	C.H.Thomsen	Guidebook to Historic Landscapes of Manitoba	$1,000	Publication research
3	1992	OALA	Children’s Landscape Art Calenda Reallocated to "Tithing for Eden" exhibit	$1,500	Photographic exhibition
2	1990	POLLEN	Historic Landscape Newsletter	$1,000	Canadian landscape history
1	1990	AAPQ	Beluga Whale Fund	$1,000

*Recipients of Gunter Schoch Bursary