Environmental Design

  • Energy defines our experience as living creatures down to a quantum level and yet we often engage with it passively or even reactively. As a result, we expend considerable amounts of energy in ways we don’t realize or even mean to. This leads to a
  • “Expectation is the mother of all frustration.”– Antonio BanderasWe experience misalignment when our expectations do not match real-time conditions. The biproducts of misalignment—frustration, disappointment, self-doubt, dissatisfaction—cause
  • Faculty at Denver Botanic Gardens
    On November 7, ENVD faculty visited the Denver Botanic Gardens with the goal to reinvigorate the CU-DBG connection and to introduce new faculty and leadership.
  • The University of Colorado Boulder Program in Environmental Design has announced the recipients of the 2023 Environmental Design Alumni Awards. This year’s honoree for the Distinguished Alumni Award is Nancy Blackwood and the Young Designer Award recipient is Thomas Hoffmann.
  • Jordan Lockner
    The University of Colorado Boulder Program in Environmental Design has announced the recipient of the 2022 Environmental Design Alumni Awards. This year’s honoree for the Young Designer Award is Jordan Lockner.
  • EPOP collage
    On Saturday, Nov. 11, at the corner of Pearl Street and 13th Street, the laser cut sign read: Student Designed. Sustainably Built.
  • This spring, the Introduction to Landscape Architecture Studio hosted a design competition. The competition was reviewed by Shihomi Kuriyagawa and Emily Urquhart at the City of Boulder Parks and Recreation Department. 鶹Ժ who made the list were encouraged to acknowledge the recognition in their portfolio, resume and LinkedIn profiles.
  • Assistant Teaching Professor Jared Arp and Creative Labs Center Coordinator Kiera Cudmore
    For generations of design students at CU Boulder, the third floor of the Environmental Design building was more than just a workspace – it was a canvas for creativity and community. This summer marks another iteration of third floor updates and while there may not be a wall of carpet addition, the third floor will be, in many ways, student-oriented once again.
  • Jota Samper ENVD assistant professor and Roudbari co-director of CEDaR
    CEDaR is one of 75 research hubs housed within the CU Boulder campus community and is the only one that has a direct relationship with the Program in Environmental Design (ENVD). The COVID-19 pandemic, however, diminished the capacity of the Center to engage with both the community at large and the students within the program. Over the past year, the two directors have been working to rebuild momentum lost during the pandemic and reorient the Center in a new direction.
  • participants at the Nature-Based Social Prescribing and Programming: Route to Wellness
    On Wednesday, April 12, a buzzing group of health care professionals, city planners, parks department representatives, educators, and community members came together to discuss the growing evidence that time spent in nature can support both mental and physical health.
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