Program Edition - October 10, 2023
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.
ENVD announces 2023 alumni award recipients
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.
Faculty News
ENVD Now Hiring
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.
ENVD theory explores critical thinking between conflict, harmonies
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.
ENVD First Year Experience Program
The Environmental Design First Year Experience (FYE) program is in full swing this year with record attendance for events hosted so far!
Own Your Success
Failure
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.