Shawhin and Jota outside of CEDaR

CEDaR, Redesigned

Oct. 9, 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.

Crown Institute, CEDaR host nature-based social prescribing programing

Crown Institute, CEDaR host nature-based social prescribing programing

April 26, 2023

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.

Marshall Mesa Trailhead site visit

Third-Year Landscape Architecture Students Design for Eco-Healing Near Marshall Mesa Site

Oct. 4, 2022

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.

CU student intern engaging local students in planning of the city's North Boulder Library Branch

Growing Up Boulder

Sept. 18, 2020

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.

Designers Without Boundaries announce winner of design competition

Designers Without Boundaries announce winner of design competition

Sept. 4, 2020

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

Sisters Community Park

Sisters Community Park

Sept. 4, 2020

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.

Evan Faucher poster design

ENVD course designs posters in response to COVID-19

April 17, 2020

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

ENVD instructor donates homemade masks

ENVD instructor donates homemade masks

April 13, 2020

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

New student organization to design site for Habitat for Humanity

New student organization to design site for Habitat for Humanity

March 1, 2019

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.

ENVD Bees Buzz

ENVD Bees Buzz

Oct. 15, 2018

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.

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