Biodiversity is shrinking as we face a warmer, wetter world; global and local impacts of climate change permeate our news, our work, our days. The grand project of landscape architecture is – and always has been – embracing  environmental change while creating spaces for health, activity, and joy.

This is our project. This is landscape architecture.

In the context of landscape architecture, what does CLIMATE mean to you — in this moment, in our region?

How are you feeling? 

How are you working?

How are you changing the paradigm?

Fieldbook CLIMATE aims to entangle in provocative discussions and consider climate impact on a gradient:   Gradients of known and unknown. Of science and feeling. Of despair and hope. Of beauty and control. Of work that has been done, is being done, and that might be done. 

This is an open call for editorial contributions by landscape architects, designers, students, and others in our larger design and construction community.

Editorial contributions may take many forms: an essay (500 words-ish); or photographs or other graphics or images that somehow speak to the theme of CLIMATE. If you prefer to participate in a recorded roundtable discussion, that's welcome too. Or a willingness to share your story as part of a brief “Work and Play” interview (see recent Fieldbooks). We are open to creative suggestions.

We seek to shape a magazine that is lively, thought-provoking, beautiful and real. The emphasis is on ideas, and celebrating the process and people of our industry. While we’ll use projects to tell stories, this will not be promotional marketing for any particular project. We like the glossy mags too, but there are already plenty of those out there. This is different. This is us.

Deadline to pitch a story idea (written or graphic), or to express your interest in participating in an interview or roundtable discussion or something (even if you don’t know exactly what): Friday, January 5, 2024. 

All pitches will be considered and will be handled on a rolling basis. At the latest, we’ll be back in touch very early in the New Year.

You do not need to be a member to participate. Contributions from students, from builders, from clients, from other organizations and from our larger design and construction and advocacy and stewardship (etc., etc.) community are welcome.

If accepted, the full draft of written/graphic materials will be due by February 5, 2024. Roundtable discussions will be recorded in January.

As always, Fieldbook will also feature recent BSLA Design Award winners, along with a few Chapter highlights, too.

We look forward to another big, beautiful, and dynamic Fieldbook!