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Celebrate Landscape Architecture Month!
April is World Landscape Architecture Month (WLAM). Established by ASLA, WLAM is a month-long international celebration of landscape architecture and designed public and private spaces. People and communities around the world have deep, long-standing personal connections to the spaces landscape architects create – they’re just not aware of it. During WLAM, ASLA and landscape architects around the world aim to demonstrate that connection by highlighting landscape architect-designed spaces.
This year’s theme is “Growing Together” and we want YOU to share the many ways landscape architects design places for people to grow together.
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Participate
Here are a few ways you can participate:
Partnering with the Earth Day Network’s Great Global Cleanup Initiative
This year, ASLA is is partnering with the Earth Day Network on their Great Global Cleanup Initiative.
As part of this year’s World Landscape Architecture Month celebration in April, the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) is teaming up with EARTHDAY.ORG to sponsor The Great Global Cleanup 2021.
Throughout the month of April, ASLA members will join together to organize and execute local cleanup projects as part of The Great Global Cleanup’s third official year.
Check out our List of local stewardship events – find one in your neighborhood and sign up. There are events in every borough, in Westchester and all along the Hudson River waterways!
Take photos and post on social media using #aslanyc #GreatGlobalCleanup and tag @asla_ny
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Share Landscape Architecture on Social Media
Share examples of landscape architecture in your own lives and communities on social media to spread awareness of the positive ways landscape architects shape their communities.
Snap a photo, add one of our special-made WLAM 2021 frames, and post on your channels with the hashtags #GrowingTogether and #WLAM2021.
We hope to see lots of posts this month!
Instagram Takeover Days ▽
All month, ASLA Professional and Student Chapters are teaming up to takeover the @NationalASLA Instagram Account and show off landscape architecture in their area. (1 instagram post, unlimited stories) Follow along on April 19: New York Chapter with CCNY Student Chapter
Growing the Future Together Student Member Contest
As landscape architecture students, you aren’t only the future of the profession – you will play a significant role in designing the future of the planet. As part of WLAM2021, ASLA is asking landscape architecture students to show all the new, innovative, creative ways in which they are working to design spaces and projects, especially those in underserved communities, that promote growing together.
Post your projects, with short community impact statements, on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook with the hashtags #GrowingtheFuture & #WLAM2021. Each post will count as one entry.
At the end of the month, two lucky winners will win a trip to the ASLA Conference on Landscape Architecture in Nashville, Tennessee this November.
“Frame” Yourself on Facebook
Let all your friends on Facebook know you’re celebrating World Landscape Architecture Month!
ASLA has developed a special “frame” to celebrate World Landscape Architecture Month. To add the frame to your photo, head over to your Facebook page. Click “Update Profile Picture,” then “Add a Frame.” You will find the frame by searching for “World Landscape Architecture Month.” Select the frame and click “Use As Profile Picture.”
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Mapping Projects That Help Communities Grow Together
ASLA is compiling a list of landscape architecture projects in communities around the world and you can help. From parks to public plazas, complete streets to community gardens, landscape architects play a critical role in shaping the world around us all. If you have a local example of community-based landscape architecture at work, submit it to our map using this link: https://airtable.com/shr7PUDuKipNX2cUI
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WLAM Specials
Take advantage of the ASLA WLAM2021 “Growing Together” Learning Bundle, featuring three sessions worth 4.0 PDH for a discounted member price, now through April 30, 2021. Sessions include:
- Out There: New Practices of Community Engaged Design
- Equity by Design: Connecting with Underserved Communities in Your Design Process
- Better Cities: Reclaiming Land for Cars into Space for People!
Check out the April WLAM edition of Landscape Architecture Magazine free of charge. You can also download the magazine as a PDF! Be sure to share this link widely to spread awareness of our amazing profession!
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