Many landscapes are just perceived as “filling empty areas between buildings, housing developments, highways and urban centres, or being vague sectors capable of managing themselves”. In other words, they are often described as vacant areas with little value, just waiting to be developed, to be rendered useful with some identifiable (mostly economic or functional) functions…
IFLA, 2012

PORTFOLIO NEWS

CANADIAN LANDSCAPE PORTFOLIO INITIATIVE

Submit your photos to the 2015 Canadian Landscape Portfolio Project

"THE DEADLINE IS APRIL 30TH, 2016"

Share your favourite significant landscapes with CSLA members by participating in illustrating what "landscape" means to Canadian landscape architects...

About the Project

The CLP is a web based digital photographic gallery intended to illustrate Canada's diversity of landscapes by provinces and territories. Compiled from CSLA members' submissions from around the country, the CLP aspires to showcase the various "landscapes" mentioned in the Canadian Landscape Charter, including the ones too often forgotten because of their apparent unimportance. The CLP is not about finding the most picturesque, rare or exhilarating place but more about capturing those significant moments when a close relationship is achieved between the author and a specific landscape.
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A LITTLE MORE THAN ONE WEEK TO PARTICIPATE IN THE 2015 PORTFOLIO EDITION...

Spring may seem far but we know it is almost there

The end of March is almost there but it gives you far enough time to select some significant images from your personal collections or to snap new ones - with the Portfolio's objectives in mind.

Remember, this initiative ultimate goal is a build a number of collections which could identify some landscapes seen as personally significant by CSLA's members from across our vast and diversified country. It is presented as an initiative because we know this goal can't be achieved in just one exercise - the 2015 Portfolio will continue in a different form with the 2016 Portfolio.

So we are looking at as many submissions as possible from all provinces and territories to be able to "draw" some kind of "portrait" for each component association. If the ten selected images and texts from every province or territory could express what types of landscapes and how they touch us, our main goal will have been achieved. We will then be able to build from this first edition of the Portfolio - Who knows how far we could go next?

It is the definitely the perfect time to plan spring outings and to participate in the 2015 Edition of the Canadian Landscapes Portfolio ...

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ONE LAST CHALLENGE - LET’S ALL SUBMIT ONE PICTURE PER WEEK...

GETTING READY FOR THE 2016 WINNIPEG CONGRESS PORTFOLIO UNVEILING...

We are looking for a good illustration from all provinces and territories, so we are giving you more time to peruse your endless collections of photos...

Just imagine the infinite diversity of views we will achieve if you are to submit at least one described image per week until the end of March.


Canada is such an immense country. How are Canadian Landscape architects experiencing its never ending diversity and constantly changing landscapes?
This is an opportunity not to be missed.

Another day on the St. Lawrence. Iroquois, On



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