Engaged Curriculum Grants
Climate-Adaptive Design in the Community
Closely engaging stakeholders with a cross-course collaboration that inspires awareness of climate adaptation and design innovation
Landscape architects and engineers often collaborate in practice and engage stakeholders during project development, but the overlap rarely occurs during academic training. This cross-course collaboration brings together students from a landscape architecture studio course and a watershed engineering course to work with municipalities along the Hudson River and explore design alternatives for developing more climate-resilient waterfronts. Students grasp big-picture climate concerns while working with diverse stakeholders to develop detailed, site-specific design responses to flooding and other hazards. Meanwhile, small, resource-constrained municipalities receive design and technical support that will generate alternative strategies for future development and catalyze support for climate adaptation.
Grant type: Development
Topics: Arts, Communication, Media and Design; Energy, Environment and Sustainability; Law, Government and Policy
The Team
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Josh Cerra, Department of Landscape Architecture
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
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M. Todd Walter, Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
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Shorna Allred, Department of Natural Resources
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
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Kimberly Williams, Center for Teaching Innovation
Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
- Community partner: New York Department of Environmental Conservation
- Community partner: City of Kingston
- Community partner: Village of Piermont
In the News
SEPTEMBER 13, 2019
Cornell University’s Selects Ossining for Climate-Adaptive Design Studio
– River Journal
DECEMBER 15, 2017
Students envision future of Hudson River town confronting flooding
– Cornell Chronicle
Engaged Curriculum Grants
Funding teams that are integrating community-engaged learning into new and existing curricula.