Applications Now Open: LFA’s 2026 Landscape Performance Case Studies Program
LFA invites academic researchers and design practices to participate in assessing the landscape performance of a completed project.
The Landscape Performance Case Studies (LPCS) Program is a key activity under our ‘Investing in Knowledge’ priority. Through this Program, we are contributing to the growing evidence base needed for future sustainable landscape planning, design and management. The Program also aims to bridge the gap between academic research and design practice in Australia for the benefit of all involved.
LFA funds academic researchers and student research assistants for up to $10,000 to collaborate with design practices.
Each academic team works with a practice to assess a significant Australian landscape project that has been completed and operating for at least two years. Together, the teams review project goals and identify key design features intended to deliver environmental, social, cultural and economic sustainability outcomes.
We invite and encourage applications from the range of disciplines and professions that influence and shape urban landscapes and natural environments—including, but not limited to, landscape architects, urban ecologists, environmental planners, engineers. We also want to produce case studies for a variety of project types from all over Australia.
The Bondi Junction Complete Streets project, one of the 2025 LPCS case study projects, is located in a dense, inner-Sydney neighbourhood where re-configuring a busy shopping street has created comfortable and safe shared spaces for pedestrians and cyclists, buses with increased shade and enhanced biodiversity. (Credit: Mike Harris)
Applying to the LPCS Program
The Academic Research Team and the Design Practice prepare separate application forms. These are combined into one application and submitted as a single PDF. Only applications submitted on the LFA application forms provided will be accepted.
Successful project teams will be announced by the end of January 2026 and the Program will commence in early February 2026.
If you have any questions about the LPCS Program and/or the application process, please email us, attn: Linda Corkery LFA@landscapefoundation.org.au
Applications and supporting materials must be submitted to LFA by
Friday, 16 January 2026, 6.00pm AEDT.
LFA is grateful for the generous advice and assistance received to establish the LPCS from the US-based Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) through a Memorandum of Understanding between our two foundations.