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Tell us about your current involvement in the landscape, garden, horticulture, design, or related industries

Suggested length: 100-200 words

This question helps reviewers understand the applicant's experience, current role, and engagement with the industry.

What are your key professional interests and career aspirations?

Please describe where you hope your career will take you and the areas of the profession that most inspire you. (200 words max)

What study, training, or professional development have you undertaken in the past five years, or are you currently undertaking?v

Suggested length: 100-150 words

Please include course names, institutions, apprenticeships, traineeships, certifications, or other relevant learning experiences.

Why would attending the Australian Landscape Conference be valuable to you at this stage of your career?

Suggested length: 150-200 words

Please refer to specific aspects of the conference program, speakers, topics, or opportunities that particularly interest you.

What barriers currently prevent you from attending the Australian Landscape Conference as a paying delegate?

Suggested length: 50-150 words

This may include financial, geographic, professional, study-related, or personal circumstances.

What makes you an outstanding candidate for an Early Career Bursary?

Suggested length: 150-250 words

Help Text: In this section, please tell us about your achievements, commitment to the industry, potential for future contribution, and why this opportunity would make a meaningful difference to your development.

How will you share, apply, or disseminate what you learn from the conference?

Suggested length: 100-200 words

Examples may include sharing knowledge with colleagues, classmates, professional networks, community groups, or through social media and industry activities.

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If you were awarded a bursary, do you have the capacity to fund your own travel and accommodation.

Garden Tours - Thursday 11 March, 2027

Tickets to a garden tour aren't included in the Bursary and can be purchased. Both tours are offer fabulous opportunities to visit designed gardens with an expert guide. A boxed lunch and transport to and from the gardens is included. Please note, participants are not able to use their own car to visit the gardens. All participants arrive and depart on the tour buses.

Tour	Time	Cost	Notes
Coastal - Morning Peninsula	7.30am–6.00pm	$290 inc GST	Full day. Tour departs from and returns to the Melbourne Convention Centre
Melbourne City	8.15am–4.45pm	$290 inc GST	Full day. Tours depart from and returns to the Melbourne Convention Centre

Should you not be successful in obtaining a Sponsored Early Career Bursary and you have booked and paid to attend the tour, you are still welcome participate in the tours.

City Tour

This tour focuses on city living and gardens of refuge and delight of all scales and for varying age groups. The tour features homes with incredible architecture, softened and grounded by the surrounding garden, shared living spaces and small gardens where design makes full use of the site.

Thu, Mar 11, 2027 8:00 AM - 4:45 PM

Ticket

AMOUNT

300.00

TOTAL

Coastal Garden Tour

From renovated gardens that surround reimagined beach houses to gardens with breathtaking views of Port Philip Bay, the coastal tour presents five gardens in the Mornington Peninsula region of Victoria. The gardens reflect the lifestyles of the owners and capture the essence of Australian living blending the natural environment with the designed.

Thu, Mar 11, 2027 7:30 AM - 6:00 PM

Ticket

AMOUNT

300.00

TOTAL

Ticket

Workshops - Monday 15 March, 2027

Four workshops are offered on Monday 15 March. Attendance at the Workshops is an optional extra and not included in the Bursary. The workshops will be held at the Uni of Melbourne, Burnley Campus unless otherwise specified.

Workshop Title	Presenter	Time	Cost
Seeing Landscapes through Trees	Dr Alison Pouliot	9.30–3.30pm	$390 inc GST
Planted places of Restoration	Sandra Schwarz	9.30–3.30pm	$290 inc GST
Landscape as Material	David Wong	9.30–3.30pm	$390 inc GST
How to be a garden detective	Tim Richardson	9.30–11.30am	$290 inc GST

W1: Seeing Landscapes through Trees

This workshop is designed for photographers, arborists, landscape architects, landscape designers, planners, environmental professionals and anyone interested in trees and landscapes. Participants will develop both technical and creative skills to create images that are visually compelling and professionally useful.

Tree photography presents unique challenges, from capturing scale and structure to working with complex backgrounds, difficult lighting, and diverse landscape settings. Through a combination of discussion, image critique, and field-based practice, we’ll explore practical techniques for overcoming these challenges and strengthening visual storytelling

Mon, Mar 15, 2027 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM

Ticket

AMOUNT

390.00

TOTAL

Ticket

W2: Planted Places of Restoration

Gardens make us feel better, but why is it so?

In this workshop with Landscape Architect and author, Sandra Schwarz, explores the evidence of how green spaces bring us respite and restoration. Learn how this applies to your own personal planted places and individual preferences. We will connect with and be inspired by the Burnley gardens setting, mindfully experience the surroundings and draw on these experiences to examine your own sense of Prospect & Refuge.

A guided exploration into what makes a green spaces restorative for 'you' will increase your understanding of, and ability to apply these universal design considerations at home and beyond.

We will close with a nature-connected experience of goodies and you will take home prompts, inspiration and tools to continue the journey further if you so choose.

Mon, Mar 15, 2027 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM

Ticket

AMOUNT

290.00

TOTAL

Ticket

W3: Landscape as Material

The way we see and the way we think influence the way we create. Perception leads to design. The expansive works of Christo and Jean Claude suggest that memory and experience play an important role in perception. To consider materials and landscape in new ways, memories become challenged and new ones created.

This masterclass offers fresh opportunities of experiencing landscape and materials. It will delve behind the creative minds of some of the world’s artists and architects. Andrew Goldsworthy, Mies van der Rohe, Rosalie Gascoigne, Jackson Pollock, Edna Walling and Pablo Picasso have approached materiality in ways we have not seen before, begging the simple question of how we can do the same.

These hands-on workshops offer a rare opportunity for you to explore and discover your own understanding of materials and relationship to landscape.

David Wong is a designer/artist/educator who graduated from the new Bauhaus school in Chicago. He is a recipient of the Thomas J Watson Fellowship with which he investigated the role of design in education. This masterclass is a culmination of his years of working with students and with communities on public artworks. As a designer and artist, he has collaborated with Andrew Laidlaw at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne on several award-winning projects.

Mon, Mar 15, 2027 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM

Ticket

AMOUNT

390.00

TOTAL

Ticket

W4: Reading and Writing a Garden

This workshop offers a unique experience to learn from the acclaimed author Tim Richardson: a leading critic of gardens, art, architecture and food (sweets) and one of the world’s most experienced garden writers. Tim has published 28 books about gardens, garden designers, garden history and other topics. He is a regular contributor to Gardens Illustrated, Country Life, The Idler, House and Garden, Wallpaper and was the co-founder of the Chelsea Fringe Festival.

The workshop ‘How to be a Garden Detective will include case studies of specific gardens including printouts of maps and plans. Tim will work through concepts and examples on how to analyse and interpret the design.

This workshop is for both the professional designer and amateur garden lover who wants to delve into the ideas behind the design.

Mon, Mar 15, 2027 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Ticket

AMOUNT

290.00

TOTAL

Ticket

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