With its bright yellow walls and large black lettering, the Community Engagement, Design and Research Center (CEDaR) in the Environmental Design building is hard to miss. But with a single door and no indoor windows to reveal the room’s inner workings, the mystery surrounding what goes on behind those walls is palpable.
Students in the Intro to ENVD Theory course created a flash installation, exploring conflicts and harmonies at environmental edges and fostering critical thinking about diverse environments through compositions projected onto paper cubes.
Students engaged in a wheelchair tour of North «Ƶ, highlighting the importance of inclusive perspectives in urban planning and emphasizing the need for accessible environments.
Denver’s very own revolutionary drag queen and creative prodigy, Yvie Oddly, calls failure a “gift.” This claim finds its antithesis in the years of conditioning we experience as endemic to the culture of competition that defines education, personal growth, and professional life in this country. Yvie and I are asking you to stop and reframe.
The «Ƶ Program in Environmental Design has announced the recipient of the 2023 Environmental Design Alumni Awards. This year’s honoree for the Distinguished Alumni Award is Nancy Blackwood and the Young Designer Award recipient is Thomas Hoffmann.
In this semester's landscape architecture studio Green Schoolyards: Designing for Mental Health, students will again take on the opportunities and challenges of designing schoolyards for the «Ƶ community, this time with a priority on considering designing outdoor spaces as mental health supporting places.
Momentum is motivation's most accessible companion--we're talking small, but generative moves. If motivation doesn’t come easily, consider what gives you momentum and the outcomes that momentum delivers. Small sparks can fuel productivity and growth! What assumptions or behaviors support your momentum?
Curiosity is the lifeblood of creativity and critical problem-solving. It activates, pursues, grows, empowers, challenges, changes, inspires, strengthens, and builds. Most importantly, curiosity helps us survive.
Time is the abstract currency by which we measure progress and achievement. Unfortunately, its inherent limitations and linear nature frequently clash with our self-knowledge and expectations inhibiting our ability to channel it in service of our goals. As you begin this new academic year, reflect on your relationship with time.