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ENVD announces 2023 alumni award recipients

Oct. 6, 2023

The University of Colorado Boulder Program in Environmental Design has announced the recipient of the 2023 Environmental Design Alumni Awards. This year’s honoree for the Distinguished Alumni Award is Nancy Blackwood and the Young Designer Award recipient is Thomas Hoffmann.

Schools that Heal

LAND studio to design schoolyards with mental health in mind

Sept. 25, 2023

In this semester's landscape architecture studio Green Schoolyards: Designing for Mental Health, students will again take on the opportunities and challenges of designing schoolyards for the Boulder community, this time with a priority on considering designing outdoor spaces as mental health supporting places.

Momentum

Momentum

Sept. 21, 2023

Momentum is motivation's most accessible companion--we're talking small, but generative moves. If motivation doesn’t come easily, consider what gives you momentum and the outcomes that momentum delivers. Small sparks can fuel productivity and growth! What assumptions or behaviors support your momentum?

Curiosity

Curiosity

Sept. 11, 2023

Curiosity is the lifeblood of creativity and critical problem-solving. It activates, pursues, grows, empowers, challenges, changes, inspires, strengthens, and builds. Most importantly, curiosity helps us survive.

Time Management

Time Management

Aug. 29, 2023

Time is the abstract currency by which we measure progress and achievement. Unfortunately, its inherent limitations and linear nature frequently clash with our self-knowledge and expectations inhibiting our ability to channel it in service of our goals. As you begin this new academic year, reflect on your relationship with time.

ENVD Materials Library space

Summer independent study redesigns central ENVD space

Aug. 28, 2023

As part of an independent study course, the students working on the project have spent the summer retrofitting ENVD 134A: installing new carpet tiles to mitigate sound reflection, adding updated lighting systems and constructing floor-to-ceiling shelving units built to accommodate and showcase the variety of design materials.

ENVD welcomes six new faculty members

ENVD welcomes six new faculty members

Aug. 28, 2023

The Program in Environmental Design welcomes six new faculty to the design community in fall 2023.

Tables in the basement and third-floor studio spaces we designed and fabricated in-house using resources in the Creative Labs Center.

Studio redesigns take place in basement, third floor studios

Aug. 28, 2023

Over the summer, a hard-working group of faculty, staff and students spent months updating studio spaces in both the basement and eastern wing of the third floor.

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ENVD forms new leadership team in staff reorganization

Aug. 28, 2023

Established in July 2022, the Staff Leadership Team has been charged to work as a cohesive unit to lead, assess and support the program’s culture of development and engagement amongst staff, and will play an integral role in realizing the program’s core mission while working with ENVD Director Stacey Schulte, the Executive Committee and Executive Leadership team to support the goals and needs of the program.

Functional Fractal by Aspen Rudolph

ENVD students recognized in Milan Affordable Housing Challenge

Aug. 22, 2023

In spring 2023, four students submitted work to the Milan Affordable Housing Challenge, a design competition part of the Buildner’s architecture competition series. The series is aimed at addressing the global housing crisis and redefining urban living.

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