DESIGNlife News

Last week, Blue Cross / Blue Shield of North Carolina announced a major initiative to attack the obesity problem in the state - and the NC State University College of Design is a part of the fight.
Shape NC brings together the College’s Natural Learning Initiative (NLI) with two other high profile health promotion partners - [...]

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Ron Kuhr of Raleigh, a retired NC State professor of entomology, has a 41 year-old son with autism, a diagnosis that has grown in prevalence from one in a thousand to nearly one in a hundred children over the past few decades.Everyone is anxious to know: How will autistic children learn to cope with daily [...]

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The Natural Learning Initiative will soon be helping to design a training program and early childhood nature play curriculum for use by education professionals at museums, zoos, aquariums, and nature centers, thanks to a grant by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
Leading the grant is the Chicago Zoological Society, which will work in [...]

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College of Design Professor of Architecture Georgia Bizios FAIA was named the 2010 Green Designer of the Year by the US Green Building Council, North Carolina Triangle Chapter. The award was made to Bizios for serving as an exemplary role model in pioneering, sharing and practicing sustainable principles that are saving the planet for the [...]

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Architecture student Christopher Pietsch recently presented his work in the Ninth Annual NC State University Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium at the McKimmon Center. Pietsch won a $1500 undergraduate research grant to study craft in prefabricated architecture. As part of his research, he traveled to San Francisco to visit the offices of Anderson Anderson Architects where [...]

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Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture Kofi Boone, ASLA, will be presenting two papers at the
Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) 2010 conference in Maastricht, Netherlands. The conference is a joint effort with ISOMUL, and International Landscape Architecture Organization. The two papers are “Triggers for Ecological Thinking: Alternative Pathways to Environmental Awareness in Community Design”, [...]

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Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture Kofi Boone and seven students in LAR 500 Landscape Narratives studio spent three days working with community stakeholders in Idlewild, Michigan. Stakeholders invited Professor Boone’s class to propose revitalization strategies for their historic downtown area and Williams Island; home to an historic performance venue. Idlewild, on the national register of [...]

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Nilda Cosco and Robin Moore of the Natural Learning Initiative and M.Z. Islam were recently published in the “Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise Journal” with an article entitled, “Behavior Mapping: A Method for Linking Preschool Physical Activity and Outdoor Design.”
ABSTRACT
COSCO, N. G., R. C. MOORE, and M. Z. ISLAM. Behavior Mapping: A Method [...]

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The College of Design 2010 Intercom Research Exchange will take place on March 1, 2010 at 5:30 -8:00 p.m. in 311 & 312 Leazar Hall. Everyone is welcome. Learn what colleagues, doctoral & graduate candidates are thinking about and making happen. There will be refreshments from Neomonde.

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[Transcript]
Fall 2009 Commencement Address
December 19, 2009
ABOUT CAKES AND RAISINS
Dr. Paul Tesar
Professor of Architecture
Good afternoon – and a very good afternoon it is for all of us here!!! Such things as the weather cannot, must not, get in the way of events such as this. On the contrary: I think that a little adversity makes them [...]

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Assistant Professor of Industrial Design and Director of the Research in Ergonomics and Design Laboratory Dr. Sharon Joines was recently published in the NeuroRehabilitation Journal Volume 25, Number 3 for an article on “Enhancing quality of life through Universal Design”. To read the article visit: http://iospress.metapress.com/content/a817vv426rt1209t/?p=7fcf97a708bc43bebf67713be177dbf4&pi=2

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Professor of Architecture Georgia Bizios, interns Katie Wakeford and Jonathan Hindman, and landscape architecture graduate student Karen Creech presented design recommendations for the future development of Kure Beach to the Town Council and community members on Friday, October 30. Follow this link to see television coverage of the event:
http://wwaytv3.com/video/nc_state_students_make_plans_revitalize_kure_beach/11
The goals of this project are to [...]

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Director of the Downtown Design Studio Dr. Celen Pasalar contributed as a guest correspondent for an article in The News & Observer in regards to Raleigh’s City Plaza. To read the story visit: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local_state/story/156009.html

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An annual selection of recent homes built by registered architects practicing in North Carolina. This is a collaborative effort between the NC State University College of Design through its Home Environments Design Initiative and The News & Observer. Each month, beginning in February 2009, one of the selected homes will be the subject of a [...]

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Professor of Architecture Thomas Barrie’s book The Sacred In-between: The Mediating Roles of Sacred Places will be published by Routledge in February 2010. The book establishes broadened contexts, approaches and understandings of architecture through the lens of the mediating roles often performed by sacred architecture. Its principle argument is that, similar to the intermediary roles [...]

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