Engaged Opportunity Grants
Social-Ecological Resilience in Design Studios
Funding travel for a conference presentation on social-ecological resilience in climate-threatened communities
The Cornell Climate-Adaptive Design (CAD) studio connects students with climate-threatened communities in the Hudson Valley. Each semester, teams of design students partner with municipalities and a variety of stakeholders to develop design strategies that inspire community awareness and capacity for more climate-resilient waterfronts and their communities. When it launched, CAD studio development focused on ecological and physical aspects of resilience, but it has grown to also include social aspects of resilience. At the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Conference researcher Graham Smith MLA ’17 and associate professor Joshua Cerra will discuss their work with program partner Libby Zemaitis, climate outreach specialist at the New York State Department of Conservation, incorporating theoretical concepts of social resilience into CAD studio engagement, design research and pedagogy.
Topics: Arts, Communication, Design and Media; Energy, Environment and Sustainability
Faculty/Researchers
- Joshua F. Cerra, Department of Landscape Architecture
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences - Graham H. Smith, MLA ’17, Department of Landscape Architecture
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Conference
- Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Conference, Blacksburg, VA, March 2018
In the News
SEPTEMBER 13, 2019
Cornell University’s Selects Ossining for Climate-Adaptive Design Studio
– River Journal
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.