Past Events

The Rural Planning and Development program is hosting a virtual town hall meeting with all current RPD students on October 6, 2021 from 12.00-1.00 pm EST. The meeting is an opportunity to check-in, receive program updates, discuss upcoming opportunities, celebrate achievements, and ask your questions. Instructions for joining the discussion will be circulated via email in advance of the meeting. Please contact Lorena Barker (rpd@uoguelph.ca) if you did not receive the instructions to join. 

Master of Landscape Architecture program - Digital Design and Visualization Lecture Samantha Solano - "Landscapes UNRepresented"

The Rural Planning and Development program is accepting applications for the Master of Planning program to start in January 2022. The Master of Planning is a one-year degree program intended for students with a completed undergraduate degree and 4-5 years of planning and development experience. The program consists of both required and elective courses and concludes with a major research paper.

University of Guelph - Landscape Architecture Guest Lecture Series presents:

The Creating Inclusive Economies Conference will  focus on building bridges between public (government), private (businesses), and civil society (community organizations) sectors and finding ways to engage and collaborate on innovative policy development with the goal of enhancing the economic and social wellbeing of rural citizens. The conference is co-hosted by the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation and the Community Economic Development and Employability Corporation.

Your Graduate Student Society would like to welcome you to the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development (or SEDRD for short)! And for those who are returning, welcome back! What is the SEDRD GSS?

Elisa Cooper, a master's student in Capacity Development and Extension in the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, will defend her thesis on “ Transforming Ourselves and Transforming Our Community: A Case Study of Learning Theory and Practice within Society of the Universal Learner in Bihar, India"

Master of Landscape Architecture program - Digital Design and Visualization Lecture Theodore Horr, Terrain Work

Welcome new Landscape Architecture students! We hope that you are just as excited to start the new school year as we are!  Join the Landscape Architecture Student Society (LASS) on Thursday, September 9th at 7pm (on Microsoft Teams) to meet your classmates and hang out with upper year LA co-hort students.

It is hard to believe that the Fall semester is two weeks away.  Please join us on Wednesday September 8th from 3:00 to 4:00 pm virtually for a brief orientation on the PhD program prior to the start of the school year.  You will have the opportunity to meet faculty and staff and also the opportunity to meet your fellow classmates.  Link to the meeting is shared to your UofG email address. Looking forward to virtually meeting you September 8th.