The CSLA is making preparations for the annual celebration of World Landscape Architecture Month (WLAM) in April 2014. The purpose of the WLAM program is to bring national recognition and awareness to the profession, landscape architects, and works of landscape architecture. CSLA component associations and their membership have grown WLAM into a national advocacy program for landscape architecture.
One of the key communication tools of the WLAM program is the annual WLAM poster. The poster is distributed across the country to our component associations, schools, professional offices, and to public governments and organizations.
This year, the CSLA poster competition is open to full members, associates and student affiliates. The prize for the winning submission is $1,000.
Tips and Tools to Help Promote Landscape Architecture in your Community
Whether you are a sole practitioner, firm, academic or student, you can help introduce the landscape architecture profession to students and to the public. Here are some resources and tips to get you started:
- Distribute copies of Landscapes|Paysages magazine in your local coffee shops - contact Michelle Legault, CLSA Executive Director, at [email protected] to obtain copies of the magazine
Check out I want to be a landscape architect, a video on the landscape architecture profession
- Mail the CSLA's WLAM Poster to members of parliament and other friends of the profession (click here to see a template letter from the CSLA) (click here to see a template letter from the OALA)
- Send a letter to local educational institutions (click here to see a template letter from APALA)
- Ask the mayor of your city or town to proclaim "landscape architecture day"(click here to see a template letter from BCSLA)
- Add the WLAM Logo to your e-mail signature during April
Further information on WLAM and the poster competition, visit the CSLA website:http://www.csla-aapc.ca/other/world-landscape- architecture-month-wlam. In addition, a series of WLAM promotional tools are available on the CSLA website.