LAF Fellowship for Innovation and Leadership
Forecasted
LAF Fellowship for Innovation and Leadership supports landscape architecture professionals developing innovative projects to expand the discipline’s impact and benefit the environment and humanity.
Funder: Landscape Architecture Foundation
Due Dates (Anticipated): September 2027 (All application materials)
Funding Amounts: $25,000 per Fellow over one year, plus travel and lodging stipends
Summary: Supports landscape architecture professionals developing innovative projects that expand the discipline’s impact and benefit the environment and humanity.
Key Information: Fellows must devote approximately 12 weeks to the project and attend three residencies in Washington, DC.
Description
The Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) supports landscape architecture professionals in developing and testing ideas that drive positive change beyond traditional practice. The yearlong fellowship provides time to reflect, research, explore, create, and turn emerging ideas into action. Projects should contribute to knowledge and innovation in landscape architecture while addressing interconnected environmental, social, or economic challenges.
The program combines project development, transformational leadership, and intergenerational mentorship. Fellows and recent LAF Olmsted Scholars participate as a six-member cohort, receiving critical review, constructive feedback, and guidance from facilitators and invited experts. Projects may involve theoretical or historical investigations, products, programs, business plans, new practice models, built work, or technology. Fellows share their work publicly and present their findings at a culminating symposium.
