2012
The students’ presentations were the culmination of an academic exercise coordinated by Martin Gold, director of the School of Architecture, Mary Padua, associate professor of landscape architecture, Pierce Jones, Extension Program leader at the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, and Kathleen Ruppert, extension scientist at the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering.
Under the direction of these instructors, students spent a semester designing how Plum Creek might conserve and develop its lands near Gainesville, using strategies to integrate local food into a master planned community development.
2012
The students’ presentations were the culmination of an academic exercise coordinated by Martin Gold, director of the School of Architecture, Mary Padua, associate professor of landscape architecture, Pierce Jones, Extension Program leader at the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, and Kathleen Ruppert, extension scientist at the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering.
Under the direction of these instructors, students spent a semester designing how Plum Creek might conserve and develop its lands near Gainesville, using strategies to integrate local food into a master planned community development.
2012
DCP graduate student James Cody Baldwin held a captive audience.
A group that included conservationists, educators, business owners and local citizens listened intently as the architecture major explained how the cinema complex he envisioned and designed would be powered by piezoelectric technology.
Baldwin, who is completing his final year of study at the college, explained that simply walking into a theatre to see a movie would create electricity for the venue.
Baldwin’s concept is one of many innovative design ideas he and his classmates developed using sustainable design and agricultural urbanism for a real-life place – Plum Creek’s 17,000 acres of land in east Alachua County, Fla.
The students’ presentations were the culmination of an academic exercise coordinated by Martin Gold, director of the School of Architecture, Mary Padua, associate professor of landscape architecture, Pierce Jones, Extension Program leader at the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, and Kathleen Ruppert, extension scientist at the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering in partnership with Plum Creek, the largest and most geographically diverse private landowner in the nation with approximately 6.7 million acres of timberlands in the United States. Under the direction of these instructors, the students spent a semester designing a vision of how Plum Creek might conserve and develop its lands near Gainesville. “The students were asked to research and design strategies to integrate local food into a master planned community development, but they did a lot more than that – they came up with land conservation strategies, unique potential commerce and community features, water and solar alternatives,” said Todd Powell, senior director of real estate for Plum Creek’s Florida properties. “They pushed the boundaries and came up with some very innovative ideas that I think everyone in Alachua County will want to see.”
2012
DCP graduate student James Cody Baldwin held a captive audience.
A group that included conservationists, educators, business owners and local citizens listened intently as the architecture major explained how the cinema complex he envisioned and designed would be powered by piezoelectric technology.
Baldwin, who is completing his final year of study at the college, explained that simply walking into a theatre to see a movie would create electricity for the venue.
Baldwin’s concept is one of many innovative design ideas he and his classmates developed using sustainable design and agricultural urbanism for a real-life place – Plum Creek’s 17,000 acres of land in east Alachua County, Fla.
The students’ presentations were the culmination of an academic exercise coordinated by Martin Gold, director of the School of Architecture, Mary Padua, associate professor of landscape architecture, Pierce Jones, Extension Program leader at the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, and Kathleen Ruppert, extension scientist at the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering in partnership with Plum Creek, the largest and most geographically diverse private landowner in the nation with approximately 6.7 million acres of timberlands in the United States. Under the direction of these instructors, the students spent a semester designing a vision of how Plum Creek might conserve and develop its lands near Gainesville. “The students were asked to research and design strategies to integrate local food into a master planned community development, but they did a lot more than that – they came up with land conservation strategies, unique potential commerce and community features, water and solar alternatives,” said Todd Powell, senior director of real estate for Plum Creek’s Florida properties. “They pushed the boundaries and came up with some very innovative ideas that I think everyone in Alachua County will want to see.”
2012
Landscape architecture students are bringing the community of White Springs together with their designs.
Students enrolled in the landscape architecture department’s Site Planning and Design studio recently unveiled their proposed revitalization of the town’s historic Carver neighborhood.
The semester-long design project titled a “New Florida Community” was presented to the mayor, council officers and community members of White Springs in December.
A “New Florida Community” challenges traditional planned community models common throughout the state of Florida, Thompson said.
“The concept seeks to create an inclusive new community that challenges the boundaries of age, economic status and race,” he said. “It’s one-part Chautauqua and one-part Elderhostel, tempered by the projects and practices we saw during the semester’s week-long field trip to Seattle and Vancouver, informed by the case study investigations the students did of the Green City of Hagaby, Sweden, and influenced by White Spring’s unique natural setting along the banks of the Suwannee River in north Florida.”
The final outcome of the project resulted in sixteen unique design concepts which include a connected transportation network, mixed-housing types, intergenerational community spaces and a generous system of connected greenways, parks and open spaces enveloping a charter school and community center at its core.
2012
Landscape architecture students are bringing the community of White Springs together with their designs.
Students enrolled in the landscape architecture department’s Site Planning and Design studio recently unveiled their proposed revitalization of the town’s historic Carver neighborhood.
The semester-long design project titled a “New Florida Community” was presented to the mayor, council officers and community members of White Springs in December.
A “New Florida Community” challenges traditional planned community models common throughout the state of Florida, Thompson said.
“The concept seeks to create an inclusive new community that challenges the boundaries of age, economic status and race,” he said. “It’s one-part Chautauqua and one-part Elderhostel, tempered by the projects and practices we saw during the semester’s week-long field trip to Seattle and Vancouver, informed by the case study investigations the students did of the Green City of Hagaby, Sweden, and influenced by White Spring’s unique natural setting along the banks of the Suwannee River in north Florida.”
The final outcome of the project resulted in sixteen unique design concepts which include a connected transportation network, mixed-housing types, intergenerational community spaces and a generous system of connected greenways, parks and open spaces enveloping a charter school and community center at its core.
2011
This is the 3rd Annual Civil Rights History Panel hosted by Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi. Panelists are Rose Turner, Union Organizer, Charles Westmoreland, History Professor at Delta State University, and Lawrence Guyot, Veteran Civil Rights Activist. Moderators Paul Ortiz, History Professor, University of Florida, and Arlene Sanders, Professor at Delta State University. Featuring Poetry by Margaret Block. Sponsors Agora Club, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc, Kappa Pi Chapter, Diversity Advisory Committee, and the Sam Block Civil Rights Foundation.
2011
This is the 3rd Annual Civil Rights History Panel hosted by Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi. Panelists are Rose Turner, Union Organizer, Charles Westmoreland, History Professor at Delta State University, and Lawrence Guyot, Veteran Civil Rights Activist. Moderators Paul Ortiz, History Professor, University of Florida, and Arlene Sanders, Professor at Delta State University. Featuring Poetry by Margaret Block. Sponsors Agora Club, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc, Kappa Pi Chapter, Diversity Advisory Committee, and the Sam Block Civil Rights Foundation.
2011
An Organizing Workshop, facilitated by Lawrence Guyot. September 21, 2011, in Cleveland, Mississippi. The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program of the University of Florida leads an annual research team to the Mississippi Delta to both study civil rights history as well as collect oral histories related to the movement. This workshop was one of the highlights of the 2011 trip, and was instructed by none other than Mr. Lawrence Guyot, activist, organizer, and SNCC veteran.
2011
An Organizing Workshop, facilitated by Lawrence Guyot. September 21, 2011, in Cleveland, Mississippi. The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program of the University of Florida leads an annual research team to the Mississippi Delta to both study civil rights history as well as collect oral histories related to the movement. This workshop was one of the highlights of the 2011 trip, and was instructed by none other than Mr. Lawrence Guyot, activist, organizer, and SNCC veteran.
2011
Center for Arts in Healthcare worked in Rwanda with an interdisciplinary team that traveled to western Rwanda in May/June, 2011. The team partnered with Rwanda Red Cross and Barefoot Artists to create a pottery workshop and exhibit hall, and develop a professional dance troupe for a community of Twa people. Health assessments and projects that use arts for health education and access to healthcare continued throughout, and Home-based Life Saving Skills trainings were extended to Goma in Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Center also hosted, with Society for the Arts in Healthcare, East-Central Africa Arts & Health Forum in Kigali. The forum attended by arts and health professionals and government officials from six East-central Africa countries resulted in establishment of an international network for Arts & Health in the region.
2011
Center for Arts in Healthcare worked in Rwanda with an interdisciplinary team that traveled to western Rwanda in May/June, 2011. The team partnered with Rwanda Red Cross and Barefoot Artists to create a pottery workshop and exhibit hall, and develop a professional dance troupe for a community of Twa people. Health assessments and projects that use arts for health education and access to healthcare continued throughout, and Home-based Life Saving Skills trainings were extended to Goma in Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Center also hosted, with Society for the Arts in Healthcare, East-Central Africa Arts & Health Forum in Kigali. The forum attended by arts and health professionals and government officials from six East-central Africa countries resulted in establishment of an international network for Arts & Health in the region.