Becoming a COG Designer

Academy Homes I, Roxbury Landscape designer Dale T. Wilson confers with grounds crew.

COG Review Design review sessions provide feedback and problem solving support.

Carroll Center for the Blind, Newton Designers Janis Porter and Alice Evans display graphics at ribbon cutting.

COGdesign needs qualified volunteer landscape designers and landscape historians.

If you are a student in landscape design/architecture or history program, or a practicing landscape designer, architect, or historian, we welcome you!

Practicing designers volunteering for COGdesign projects have an opportunity to become involved in interesting and significant community projects. Student designers are typically eager to become involved in design projects outside the classroom that offer an actual client, a timeline, and budget restrictions. All COG designers are looking for projects that will pay them back with field experience, portfolio material, and job satisfaction.

Some larger projects are undertaken as classroom projects or are offered to students as independent thesis projects. We welcome inquiries from landscape design instructors.

Benefits of becoming a COG designer include:

• collaborative process

• project management experience

• individualized support from experienced professionals

• portfolio material

• job satisfaction

All COG designers are supported through COG Review, a monthly design review session for working designers. See our Events page for the next upcoming meeting.  COG Review is facilitated by experienced landscape architects and designers, and attended by other designers seeking to share challenges, ideas, and support.

Prospective designers are always welcome at COG Review.

Step 1:
Request a designer application by calling 781-642-6662 or emailing info@cogdesign.org.

Step 2:
Contact the COGdesign office for information about projects currently in need of a designer or design team.  Watch the web site and newsletter for new project information as well.

Designers: FAQs

Design students: introducing ‘Field Assistant’
If you’d like a taste of what working with clients and managing projects is all about, become a COGdesign project Field Assistant. You will be an assistant to a project designer, providing an extra set of hands to measure the site, make phone calls, attend client meetings . . . whatever the designer needs your help with.  Contact COGdesign.