Student Research

ENVD students exhibit work at CU Climate Expo

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 20:35:12 +0000

ENVD students exhibit work at CU Climate Expo Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 04/25/2023 - 14:35

Last week, CU Boulder hosted the 2023 Climate Action Expo, where students from various schools and colleges showcased climate solution projects. Environmental Design senior Julia Rodrguez and the ENVD Diversee Scholars Executive Board exhibited their work "The Unseen Effects of Climate Change," a research-based installation to spread awareness on environmental injustice. The panel installation was handcrafted at the ENVD Creative Labs Center (CLC). Rodriguez led the month's worth of research covering climate change, it's effects on marginalized communities and how urbanization leaves rural America with the deepest impacts.

Work from ENVD first year student Quinn Jacobson was also exhibited. Jacobson's "Gateway Park," redesigned a site located on the CU campus. The vision for the design is to create a space that makes it feel like you're in a more natural, Rocky Mountain forest environment just a few steps off of Broadway.

Last week, CU Boulder hosted the 2023 Climate Action Expo, where students from various schools and colleges showcased climate solution projects.

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ENVD Scholarship Committee Announces 2023-2024 Research Award Recipients

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 20:15:06 +0000

ENVD Scholarship Committee Announces 2023-2024 Research Award Recipients Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 02/13/2023 - 13:15

The Environmental Design Scholarship Committee is proud to announce the 2023-2024 winners of the ENVD Research Award. The ENVD Research Award financially assists with senior-level ENVD honors and capstone projects. Congratulations to ENVD students Ellie Muncy and Ainsley McElwee!

Muncy, a sustainable planning and urban design major, is working to better understand, document and problem-solve equality in downtown Boulder, through the lens of women’s safety. McElwee, also a sustainable planning and urban design major, is revisiting Boulder and its historic districts to consider and present new opportunities in telling a comprehensive narrative that weaves both the historical past and the present day. Both Muncy’s and McElwee’s work, while focused and originating in Boulder, could have influence and impact beyond the city limits.

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ENVD 4361 Dissent by Design mini-exhibit "Situating Dissent"

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 16:24:17 +0000

ENVD 4361 Dissent by Design mini-exhibit "Situating Dissent" Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 09/12/2019 - 10:24

The ENVD 4361 Dissent by Design mini-exhibit "Situating Dissent" will be housed in the environmental design gallery, located in the front entrance of the building, from September 12 to September 19.

In this mini-exhibit, students explore definitions for hegemony, injustice, dissent and equity. Students look to the words of activists, scholars, artists and designers, and seek manifestations in the built environment.

This exploration is a response to a question all designers are wondering a bit about: “why should environmental designers understand dissent?”

The set of definitions and images considers dissent as a precursor to equity and situates dissent in response to injustices that arise from hegemonic ideologies.

The ENVD 4361 Dissent by Design mini-exhibit "Situating Dissent" will be housed in the environmental design gallery, located in the front entrance of the building, from September 12 to September 19.

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Environmental Design Honors Symposium 2019

Anonymous — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 00:36:23 +0000

Environmental Design Honors Symposium 2019 Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 03/01/2019 - 17:36

Next Friday, March 8, 2019, Environmental Design will host its annual Honors Symposium. This event gives ENVD honors students the opportunity to present their honors projects to an audience, and open the floor for questions and discussions.

This year, ten students will be presenting honors projects. See them present on March 8, from 12 - 1:30 p.m. in ENVD 134. Learn more about their topics below.

Adam Bunce
A Retrofit Design that Hybridizes Conventional and Low Impact Stormwater Infrastructure

Stella Coble
Fascist Icon to Fashion Headquarters: An Examination of the Palazzo della Civiltá Italiana

Abe Proffitt
Patterns of Disparity in Cycling Infrastructure: A Comparison of Neighborhood Access in Denver

Winter Roybal
Engaging Youth in Interpretive Education at Historic Sites in Boulder

Kate Sector
Inspired by Nature: Mutually Beneficial Design Metrics for Boulder, Colorado

Emily Sherman
Increasing Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change Through Design

Erick Sherwood
Achieving a Successful Olympic Games and an Enduring Host City Legacy through Architecture and Planning

Sara Taketatsu
Initiating Affordable Housing Design through a Community Based Process

Cale Wagner
Denver’s Waiting Spaces: Designing Data-Responsive and Modular Public Spaces

Brooke Williams
Innovation Districts: Evaluating Equity within the Knowledge Economy Paradigm

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ENVD senior selected for 2019 AIAS CRIT Scholars Program

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 18:37:11 +0000

ENVD senior selected for 2019 AIAS CRIT Scholars Program Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 01/09/2019 - 11:37

Kate Sector, a senior in architecture and co-president of AIAS at CU Boulder, was selected to participate in this year’s CRIT Scholar research program. CRIT Scholar is a research-based program that is supported by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in partnership with several prominent architecture firms.

As a recipient, Sector will receive a $1,000 grant for her research project and will be matched with a mentor involved in conducting research at an architectural firm. Learn more

Kate Sector, a senior in architecture and co-president of AIAS at CU Boulder, was selected to participate in this year’s CRIT Scholar research program.

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Social Justice and Activism in Design

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Mar 2017 21:43:28 +0000

Social Justice and Activism in Design Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 03/24/2017 - 15:43

In January, Assistant Professor Shawhin Roudbari traveled to Santiago, Chile with ENVD undergraduate research assistants Alicia Gonzales and Kristina Lu. The trio conducted fieldwork on social justice and activism in design through visual experience and interviews with various architects, planners and professors.

A month before the trip, the team identified a list of people to interview. This allowed them the opportunity to meet with ArchDaily Founder and Editor in Chief, David Basulto.

“They have a huge influence and responsibility to help shape the architecture world, but I had no idea that the global impact was so great,” Lu said about ArchDaily.

Roudbari, Gonzales and Lu made their way to Valparaíso, the second largest metropolitan area in Chile, known as a global hotbed of community activism.

“I think the context is the first part of understanding social justice and activism,” Gonzales said. “The city itself is already telling you with graffiti and murals that there is something here people want to say, and they’re saying it through drawings and pictures, etc…”

For Roudbari, the context of Santiago is much different from what’s available in Boulder. The experience allowed for a better understanding of global perspectives, culture and societies.

“Trips like this, I think are valuable, because not only do we see it and feel it… but, we also take a little bit of that culture back to our program and share with each other.” Roudbari said.

The larger, overall project will last 3-5 years for Roudbari. His ultimate goal is in the works and will showcase the global perspectives on political engagement in design. But for now, he believes the trip was most successful in other ways.

“Part of the thing I’m excited about and that I value is that it lives on in their [Gonzales and Lu] lives, and they take those lessons with them,” Roudbari said.

After the trip, Gonzales and Lu enrolled in an independent study with Roudbari to code, analyze and find notable themes in their data. The findings will be used in, what Roudbari categorized in three different areas, “teaching, research and student’s lives.”

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