Community

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.

A day-long event was organized through a collaboration between the Renée Crown Wellness Institute and the Community Engagement, Design and Research Center (CEDaR). The occasion featured four innovative professionals who have engaged in research and programs centered around connecting communities to nature to address key health issues.

Third-year landscape architecture students take on designing interpretive education opportunities along the Marshall Mesa (and adjacent) trailhead that will be presented to OSMP and folded into the future designs for those trailheads.

Did you know that children and youth can contribute meaningfully to Environmental Design? Since 2009, GUB has worked with 6,000 children and youth on over 100 city projects. Learn more.

From June through the end of July, environmental design students were sent out to design with a community rather than for a community.

The landscape architecture studio will be collaborating with the City of Longmont’s senior planners and landscape architects to develop masterplan schemes for a future community park in southwest Longmont.

For one environmental design course, adjusting to remote learning due to the novel coronavirus pandemic has encouraged a positive educational opportunity.

While teaching remotely, Environmental Design Instructor Betsy Johnson and her family are volunteering their time to help others during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Rural Project, a new organization in Environmental Design, seeks to engage and empower communities in rural Colorado through design-based activism. Recently, the student-run organization took a trip to Berthoud, Colorado for a project site visit.

In September, lecturer Danielle Bilot installed a pollinator habitat at the Rayback Collective in Boulder in collaboration with the City of Boulder, Justin's Nut Butter, Butterfly Pavilion and the CU Bee Club.