We are a newly established non-profit organization whose goal is to combat systemic racism in landscape architectural professional practice. We seek to engage in a professional, positive, and transparent relationship with our professional bodies as an arms-length advocacy group.

The Coalition was created after a letter demanding action on racial injustice in landscape architecture was sent to the CSLA and OALA, in the immediate aftermath of the murder of George Floyd in early June. The letter was distributed as an editable document that received feedback from landscape architects across Canada, and gained 120+ signatures.

CSC also serves as a small, independent research and design incubator to seek out grants and fundraising to facilitate opportunities for placemaking, awareness, and practice surrounding anti-racism in the built environment. We aim to forge cross disciplinary relationships between designers and community organizations to create a more just, equitable, and inclusive public space.

Our overarching goal is to conduct research that contributes to the future of landscape architecture practice and education, that is anti-racism and decolonized in order to dismantle the systemic barriers of oppression within our field.