CED alumni spotlight: Grace Wooten (BLA '16)
As a student in the landscape architecture program, Grace Wooten discovered a passion for helping communities design meaningful spaces.
Kristie Person: CED Alum Finding Her Place in History
As the daughter of an Air Force family, packing up boxes and moving to new states and cities was routine for CED alum Kristie Person. Big moves sometimes came with challenges for Person, but she quickly discovered that moving could also be a time to discover hidden treasures in the new towns she called home...
Douglas, GA Design Charrette
The CCDP took a team of 17 students down to Douglas, GA, for our spring design charrette. The Downtown Development Authority of Douglas requested our help in creating a cohesive vision that addressed revitalization potential, corridor enhancements, and infill housing along a 3-mile business district. In just 3 days, students representing all of CED's disciplines toured the town for the first time, facilitated a community listening session, and developed short-term and long-range concepts around streetscape improvements, placemaking, greenway enhancement, celebrating Black culture, and infill housing in historic districts. The work they were able to produce in just three days is truly remarkable and the Douglas DDA was blown away by our innovative ideas -- we hope to see some of them implemented in the future!
CED Hosts Experience UGA Tenth Grade Field Trips
The Experience UGA program is a partnership between the Clarke County School District (CCSD) and the UGA Office of Service Learning which aims to bring every PreK-12 student to UGAʼs campus every year for a curricular-based field trip. This year, we welcomed students from Clarke Central High school on November 14th and from Cedar Shoals High School on November 16th. The Experience UGA trips achieved the goal of exposing high schoolers to college and the field of landscape architecture through a thoughtfully tailored experience.
Small Town Preservation: Hoschton, GA Design Charrette
CED students from various programs worked together with community members and stakeholders in Hoschton, Georgia to develop concept plans addressing population growth and preserving Hoschton's historic character.
UGA Interdisciplinary Research Team explores coastal housing challenges
UGA students are working with the University of Georgia Marine Institute on Sapelo Island to create new designs that could help coastal residents weather the next hurricane. The UGA interdisciplinary team includes colleagues from the College of Engineering, College of Environment and Design, the department of geography, the department of marine sciences, the Carl Vinson Institute of Government, Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant, the Office of Research, and the Office of the University Architect.
McDuffie County Trails Charrette
McDuffie County, Ga. - The McDuffie County Archway Partnership enlisted design assistance from the College of Environment and Design (CED) in order to increase recreational opportunities around Clarks Hill Lake, one of the largest man-made lakes east of the Mississippi River. Led by the CED Center for Community Design and Preservation, graduate students from the college's landscape architecture and urban planning programs have provided a master plan that includes concepts tailored to kayaking enthusiasts, hikers, campers, recreational cyclists, and equestrians.
FindIt creates StoryMaps as Outreach Tool
The Covid-19 Pandemic forced many institutions, organizations, and individuals to rethink "business as usual." For the FindIt Program, the long-running historic resource survey program within the Center for Community Design & Preservation (CCDP), local shelter-in-place rules provided an opportunity for students to share the results of their architectural fieldwork more broadly.
Virtual design charrette for downtown Hawkinsville
CCDP began a virtual design charrette this week to envision a brewpub and enhanced river walk for downtown Hawkinsville. Read more: instagram.com/p/CGBjY9WBqOY/