Each year CEDaR supports several classes in which faculty and students explore alternative community engagement approaches. These are typically taught in collaboration with community partners, and emphasize problems of stakeholder involvement, political context, and community participation in planning decisions. Past classes have included the following:

Program in Environmental Design Curriculum

 

ENVD 3300. Green Infrastructure Praxis.

David Kahn and Sara Tabatabaie. Collaboration with City of Denver and the Westwood Neighborhood.

This class continues development and application of a neighborhood green infrastructure planning sequence to the Westwood Neighborhood in Denver. It builds on the Park Hill Studio from spring 2015. Collaborators include Westwood Unidos, Livable Westwood, Trust for Public Lands and City of Denver.

ENVS 4800. Sustainability and Community.

Jonathan Koehn, Brian Muller, Susie Strife. Collaboration with City of Boulder, Boulder County and Growing Up Boulder.

This class is an ENVS capstone with 30 students. It explores issues, opportunities and methods for engaging residents in community-scale sustainability planning and project development. This class is organized as a formal collaboration with the City and County of Boulder and CEDaR. This class, co-taught with the coordinators of the city and county sustainability programs, evaluates the relationship between sustainability/resilience and community action and participation.

ENVD 4022 Planning Capstone.

Tori Derr. Collaboration with the City of Boulder.

The capstone represents the culmination of your educational experience; the opportunity to apply and synthesize skills and knowledge gained from previous semesters to a project of personal and professional interest. This project will support development and integration of resilience planning into multiple planning processes in the city of Boulder.