Michael Ewings’ $1 million gift to establish a perpetual scholarship for landscape architectural studies honours a career that reshaped Australia’s urban landscapes—and now invests in the next generation of designers.

Community volunteers, council officers, and LFA have come together to restore Uralla’s Racecourse Lagoon Reserve, part of a nationally significant wetland system.

How can drones help track the performance of green infrastructure at scale? In the first of LFA’s Fellows Interview Series, LFA Ambassador Crosbie Lorimer speaks with landscape architect Michael White about his Fellowship project, Aerial Analytics.

How can digital tools help nature thrive in our cities?

LFA’s 2025 Fellowship has been awarded to landscape architect Steve Mintern to advance the Melbourne Biodiversity Network. His project will develop a public-facing ‘digital twin’ - a tool to map and track the impact of green interventions in real-time. Grounded in equity, ecology, and evidence, this work reflects LFA’s mission to build healthier, more resilient urban landscapes.

Research is underway at UCanberra, led by Dr Gweneth Leigh, RLA, to identify how schoolyard spaces impact adolescents’ specific needs and how their design can foster student wellbeing. The Landscape Foundation of Australia supports as pro bono expert advisors on the project’s Working Group.

The LFA has made recommendations to Infrastructure Victoria’s Draft 30-Year Infrastructure Strategy, calling for green infrastructure to be recognised as essential and proposing minimum on-site green infrastructure requirements for private developments.

We are delighted to introduce Crosbie Lorimer as LFA’s first Ambassador. As an enthusiastic advocate for the Foundation, Crosbie will work closely with the LFA Board to help raise its profile and impact.

The Foundation invites applications from early- to mid-career professionals seeking to advance their expertise, explore/extend leading best practice, test innovative ideas, engage with experts, and position themselves for ongoing leadership.

Their donation targets the Foundation’s ‘Investing in Knowledge’ strategic priority supporting our grants and in-kind support for projects and research that will inform practice and policy development.

LFA is delighted to announce that applications are now open for its research program focused on assessing the landscape performance of Australian projects. 

The purpose and goals of Habitat Solutions align closely with those of the Foundation.

The LFA Fellowship Program has expanded with the selection of two Fellows, one in Perth and one in Sydney.

Environmental scientist and social scientist, Kieran Power joins the LFA board as a Non-Executive Director.

Announcing the 2024 round of applications for LFA’s Fellowship program.

The Landscape Foundation of Australia has selected two teams and projects for its inaugural round of the Landscape Performance Case Studies Program (LPCS).

Addressing the consequences of societies’ attitude to nature and the need for economic systems to be changed so they fully account for all of nature’s diverse values.

Addressing the consequences of societies’ attitude to nature and the need for economic systems to be changed so they fully account for all of nature’s diverse values.

An important question…and one that LFA is helping to answer through its Landscape Performance Case Studies Program.

Landscape Foundation of Australia (LFA) have successfully completed their first community-based project, ‘Keeping Uralla Cool’.

LFA supports the not-for-profit organisation PlantingSeeds to help expand their innovative ‘B&B Highway Program’. Through this program students learn about the critical importance of pollinators and the actions needed to protect them.