BY ZACH MORTICE
Image courtesy of LAF.
The Landscape Architecture Foundation has announced its first group of Fellowship for Innovation and Leadership recipients, whose research projects all involve the civic design and public policy implications of landscape architecture.
The four practicing landscape architects and academics announced in March will receive $25,000 to research their proposals for one year, with three months of that year dedicated to intensive full-time study. When the fellowships conclude in the spring of 2018, these four landscape designers will present their work at a symposium in Washington, D.C.
Claire Latané, ASLA. Image courtesy of LAF.
The LAF unveiled the fellowship program in June of 2016, its 50th anniversary. Executive Director Barbara Deutsch, FASLA, cites the ?need for leadership in the profession to assert the landscape perspective, the value of design, practice, and advocacy? as motivation for this new research opportunity. She hopes the fellowship can be ?an incubator of ideas, to do something transformational for the practice.? These kinds of ambitions have led to research that goes beyond purely design-oriented project-scale prescriptions into the wider world of public policy and how laws and regulations dictate what landscape architects create. Public policy is a way to answer the question, ?What is the benefit and the impact on the broader profession"? says Jennifer Low, ASLA, an LAF program manager.
Claire Latané, ASLA, a seni...