LAF Fellowship for Innovation and Leadership

About this program

The Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) offers the LAF Fellowship for Innovation and Leadership, a $25,000 award that enables landscape architecture professionals to dedicate roughly three months’ worth of time over a year to research, test, and advance innovative projects with potential for substantial environmental and societal impact. Fellows participate in three 2.5-day residencies, monthly conference calls, and intergenerational mentorship with Olmsted Scholars and LAF’s network to develop ideas into action. Applicants must be landscape architecture professionals (including recent LAF Olmsted Scholars) and submit a competitive project proposal demonstrating the potential to drive transformative change and build leadership capacity. Each year LAF selects a six-member cohort through a competitive review.