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community outreachThe Landscape Architecture Community Outreach Centre offers design assistance directly to communities, organizations and individuals with the goal of stimulating creative and innovative approaches to solving design problems. Our objectives are to contribute to the role of the University of Guelph in providing service to society, to create educational opportunities for students in our Landscape Architecture programs, and to provide enhanced resources in support of student learning. Scope of ProjectsWe're interested in working with individuals and community groups who need preliminary ideas to get started. Typical projects we undertake through the Community Outreach Centre include design and management plans for parks and open spaces, trail systems, schoolyard naturalization, tourism facilities, greening projects, seniors' residences, therapeutic facilities, streetscapes and downtown revitalization. Outreach ServicesThe Outreach Centre receives many requests for assistance. Projects are chosen according to their scope and complexity, their educational value and fit with our learning objectives, and the interests of individual students. Design assistance is generally provided at low cost, depending on the client's ability to pay. Projects that are larger or more complex are frequently undertaken as faculty-organized studio projects as part of either graduate or undergraduate courses. Anywhere from 6 to 36 students work individually or in small groups producing a range of plans. In some cases, students may assume the project as an independent course or thesis project under the direct supervision of a faculty member. In other cases, working independently without faculty supervision, students provide advice or design plans directly to clients. Typically, these latter projects tend to be ones that are small in scale or complexity. Students usually document their design ideas in the form of sketches, conceptual plans and reports. They do not prepare working drawings for construction purposes. Based on the issues associated with each project, we encourage cooperative work with faculty and students in other programs on campus, drawing on expertise in related fields such as ecology, engineering, rural planning and development, and environmental assessment. Contact UsIf you would like to have your project considered for design assistance through the Landscape Architecture Community Outreach Centre, please download and fill out the Project Profile Form (PDF) and mail it to the address noted on the form, or contact us at the following address, provide your mailing address, and we'll send you a copy of the form:
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