Past Events

SEDRD Seminar presentation by Mikaêl Akimowicz, SEDRD Ph.D. Post-Doctoral fellow. "The Marsupia Project (A Multifunctional Agriculture for Sustainable Peri-Urban Areas)" Thursday, September 25, 2014 10:00 - 12:00 Location:  LA143 Mikaêl is currently working in SEDRD alongside Prof. Karen Landman and Prof. Harry Cummings on this project. Hi Everyone,

The Landscape Architecture Student Society presents: Aggie Pub Luau Wednesday, September 24, 2014 10:00 pm - 2:00 am Peter Clark Hall (basement of the UC) Tickets are $5 each at the door (or you can buy them in the LA Pit on Wednesday, Sept. 24 from 11:30-2:00 pm). As a student organization within OAC, LASS gets to host an Aggie Pub each year.  So if you are only planning to make it out to one Aggie Pub this year, make our LASS Aggie pub the one!

An important meeting for third year BLA students considering applying for Professional Internship in 2015. Wednesday, September 24, 2014 12:30 - 1:30 pm LA Pit Nate Perkins, Internship Coordinator and Melinda Vanryn, BLA Counsellor will present information regarding professional internship (LARC*4620 Internship in Landscape Architecture) for interested BLA students (MLAs are welcome to attend).

The Bachelor of Landscape Architecture Class of '89 will be holding its 25th Anniversary Reunion on Friday, September 19th, 2014 starting at 2:30 pm in the LA Pit. Students are welcome to come and chat with Alumni at the reception.  This is a good opportunity for students to network with alumni.  There will be a broad representation of Alumni from all Ontario!   For more information please contact Professor Sean Kelly at skelly03@uoguelph.ca or Professor Karen Landman at klandman@uoguelph.ca (members of the Class of '89).  

Attention all OAC students, staff, faculty and alumni: mark your calendars! OAC staff, students and faculty - you're invited to the Ontario Agricultural College's 140th anniversary celebration. Join us for a glass of Aggie Spirit beer, snacks and live music on Johnston Green.  

Rural Planning and Development Program Guest Lecture "Presidential Reflections:  The Scene and the Unseen.  Reflecting on 38 Years of Planning Practice Including Some Thoughts on British Columbia's Agricultural Land Reserve". By Michael Gordon, President of CIP Senior Planner, City of Vancouver Monday, September 29th 10:00 - 11:00 am The Pit, Landscape Architecture Building

Capacity Development & Extension Program, M.Sc. Thesis Defense by Erika Zarate Title:  The Slow Revealing of Change: Decision Making Processes in Grassroots Collectives as Stories and Fractals of Adult Learning and Personal, Social and Ecological Change will be held on: Friday, September 12, 2014 12:30 P.M. Landscape Architecture Building, Room 127 Al Lauzon, Advisor Lesley Woods, Advisory Committee Member Helen Hambly Odame, Chair of Exam All welcome to attend.

Presentation by: Elsa Vasseur, Ph.D. from College d'Alfred, University of Guelph. She will speak about her research/teaching interests and perspectives. Friday, September 12, 2014 Location:  LA, Room 143 Time:  11:00 am - 12:30 pm (followed by a pizza lunch) Open to faculty and students.

Orientation for all new undergraduate and graduate students within the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development will take place on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014 in the Landscape Architecture building.  More details to follow shortly.

Capacity Development & Extension MSc Thesis Defense by Joel Aitken Wednesday, August 27, 2014 10:00 A.M. Landscape Architecture Room 143 TITLE:  Ethno-Cultural Vegetable Value Chain Structure and Supply Characteristics in Ontario Examination Committee: Glen Filson, Advisor Isabelle Lesschaeve, Committee Member Karen Landman, Chair All are welcome to attend.