Applications Now Open for the 2025 Landscape Performance Case Studies Program!
LFA is delighted to announce that applications are now open for its research program focused on assessing the landscape performance of Australian projects.
The Landscape Performance Case Studies (LPCS) Program is one of LFA’s key activities under our ‘Investing in Knowledge’ priority. Through this Program, we are contributing to the evidence base needed to make the case for sustainable landscape planning, design and on-going management. The Program also aims to bridge the gap between academic research and design practice in Australia for the benefit of all involved.
LFA funds academic researchers and student research assistants for up to $10,000 to collaborate with design practices.
Each academic team works with a practice to assess a significant Australian landscape project that has been completed and operating for at least two years. Together, the teams review project goals and identify key design features intended to deliver environmental, economic, cultural and social sustainability outcomes. The academic research team then measures and assesses how the project has performed across those four dimensions. Finally, they document their work and findings in a methods report and case study brief.
We invite and encourage applications from the full range of disciplines and professions that influence and shape urban landscapes and natural environments—including, but not limited to, landscape architects, urban ecologists, environmental planners, engineers. We also want to produce case studies for a variety of project types from all over Australia.
South Eveleigh Community Rooftop Garden (CSI 2020). The design and layout of the rooftop garden uses traditional symbolic Indigenous forms and patterns with three large circles forming the pathway structure and framework for the central social space and garden beds. Credit: Shane Eberle Photography. Source: Landscape Performance Series
The LPCS Program is modelled on the US-based Landscape Architecture Foundation’s Case Study Investigation program initiated in 2010. We are grateful for the generous advice and assistance received from Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) that has supported us in creating this new program.
Applying to the Program
The Academic Research Team and the Design Practice prepare separate application forms. These are combined into one application and submitted as a single PDF. Only applications submitted on the LFA application forms provided will be accepted.
Successful project teams will be announced by the end of January 2025 and the Program will get underway on 11 February, 2025.
If you have further questions about the LPCS Program and/or the application process, please email us: attn: Linda Corkery LFA@landscapefoundation.org.au
All applications and supporting materials must be submitted to LFA by
Friday, 17 January 2025, 6.00pm AEDT.