The 4th year Bachelor of Landscape Architecture Studio will undertake this year’s Winter Stations Project in the Beach Area of Toronto. This projects deals with community design interventions, and creating installation spaces that attract and enhance the community.
The Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA) recently announced that the University of Guelph's Master Plan and Implementation has won the CSLA Legacy Project Award for 2017.
A brief question and answer interview with Professor Martin Holland who was recently interviewed for the University of Guelph campus news. The article entitled: "Historical Statues Offer Key Lessons: U of G Prof" can be found at the following link here.
“Academia is key to strengthening the field of communication for development (C4D) around the world, as universities play an important role in building skills in the field and in developing the human resources that will plan and implement C4D programmes, as well as influence policies”, states the global knowledge base known as The Communication Initiative Network.
On July 27, 2017, Dr. Ryan Gibson was re-elected President of the Canadian Community Economic Development Network (CCEDNet). CCEDNet is a member-driven, not for-profit, charitable organization made up of community-based organizations, co-operatives, social enterprises, practitioners, active citizens, researchers, and other organizations involved in community economic development.
Despite a new water treatment plant at Six Nations, over 90% of the community continue to lack household access to safe drinking water. Professor Longboat from the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development joins other Six Nations community members and talks with CBC radio about the chronic drinking water issues at Six Nations of the Grand River territory. See CBC news article here.
Over the years, Canada has accumulated many lessons learned when it comes to developing and implementing policies in rural areas. These lessons were shared with parliamentarians on June 6, 2017 when Dr. Ryan Gibson presented to the Scottish Parliamentary Cross Party Committee on Rural Policy. The presentation reflect on Canada’s rural policies and programs, what has worked, what has not worked, and what lessons emerged from the various experiences.
Congratulations to Sarah Robinson who recently won the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) and Landscape Forms 2017 Landscape Forms Design for People Scholarship.
Professor Caldwell recently participated in a 'book launch event' at the Bookshelf on Wednesday, May 16th, 2017. Burkhard Mausberg, CEO of the Greenbelt Foundation (on the left) has released his book entitled "The Greenbelt - Protecting and Cultivating a Great Ontario Treasure". Dr.
New book edited by Prof Karen Landman & Ashlee Cunsolo entitled "Mourning Nature: Hope at the Heart of Ecological Loss and Grief". Book launch will take place Tuesday, May 30th, 2017 at 7:00 pm at the Bookshelf, 41 Quebec Street, Guelph.
Ashlee Cunsolo is director of the Labrador Institute and an adjunct professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Karen Landman is professor of landscape architecture at the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development at the University of Guelph.