Engaged Opportunity Grants
Indigenous Community Planning and Landscape Design
Engaging indigenous communities about development on their native land
In this community-engaged landscape architecture studio, students learn about place-based cultural and environmental perspectives on development issues that indigenous people face on their ancestral lands. To facilitate the interaction between Cornell and these communities, the team is working with the Sustainable Native Communities Collaborative, a community-based design firm specializing in housing development. This grant supports site visits to the Akwesasne Mohawk community on the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation in northern New York and the Zuni Reservation in Zuni, New Mexico, where students participate in information sessions with community leaders and present their work for dialogues with community partners.
Grant category: Student Leadership
Topics: Arts, Communication, Media and Design; Culture, Language and History; Energy, Environment and Sustainability
The Team
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Kathryn Gleason, Department of Landscape Architecture
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
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Andrew Berger
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
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Theresa Ruswick
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
- Community partner: Sustainable Native Communities Collaborative
Engaged Opportunity Grants
Supporting a wide range of community-engaged learning projects, from student leadership programs and partnership building to events and conference travel. Open to all faculty and staff.