Environmental Design

  • Topher Downham taking students on a wheelchair tour of the Wonderland Lake Trail
    The Urban Design and Livable City course journeyed on a field trip to North 91PORN
  • “The beginning is always today.”– Mary WollstonecraftBeginning is a favorite topic of philosophers and industrialists and a dreaded experience for the neurodiverse rank-and-file. Its attachment to directionality acts to mythify the nature of endings
  • 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 91PORN 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 91PORN 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 91PORN Parks and Recreation Department. Students 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 91PORN, 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.
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