Environmental Design

More cities are studying ways to mitigate heat from intensely sunny days. One expert is more focused on the dangers posed by UV exposure.

American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) co-presidents Ella Seevers and Maddie Veasey speak on the role of their environmental club at CU.

To reimagine play spaces for young students, two Boulder schools enlisted CMDI’s expertise in redesigning their schoolyards.

More than 800 CMDI students were named to the dean's list for the fall semester.

In a year where the college’s biggest story was its name change—following its integration with the environmental design department—CMDI’s community also found itself at the center of the biggest conversations shaping our time—from sustainability and A.I., to media literacy and the future of journalism. 

At an annual holiday market, CMDI students again sold handmade, sustainably sourced gifts—along with the stories of how the materials were rescued from waste streams.

A regular feature catching up with people in our community who are doing interesting and impactful work. In this edition, can design make you a better doctor? Kathy Grewe says she used lessons from her environmental design degree every day as an interventional cardiologist.

Here are 10 centers and labs that have created public impact in the college’s first decade.

When Eldora hit the market last summer, a team of environmental design students got the chance to re-envision its signature buildings as a way to potentially interest a buyer.

When it comes to sustainability, individual actions aren’t enough. The same is true for how we look for solutions, so we asked a group of CMDI experts how collaboration might save the day.