Volume 2, Issue 3 | August 2020 |
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A botanical garden for OC Great Park |
The Department of Landscape Architecture is helping the Great Park Garden Coalition build public support for a botanical garden in OC Great Park, a 40-acre public park in the City of Irvine.
In May students submitted 28 different master plans, concluding a semester-long collaboration with the Coalition. Six of the best project designs were showcased in a Zoom presentation attended by Coalition leadership, city representatives and the South Coast Research and Extension Center. Read more
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Most classes and services are remote/virtual in the fall term.
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Update your contact information on BroncoDirect to receive important campus updates.
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Fall 2020 instruction will be predominantly virtual, with 500 student residents approved by University Housing, said CPP officials.
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Broncos Care awarded more than $450,000 in emergency grants to more than 1,000 students since mid-March.
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Get real-time updates in your timeline. Follow CPP on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram (@calpolypomona).
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Find more updates in the College of Environmental Design's news section.
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Buildings 1, 2, 3, 7, 13, 89 and 209 are closed and locked until further notice. Studios and classrooms should not be accessed at this time.
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Students have free access to Adobe Creative Cloud through August 2021. Use your Bronco ID to download.
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ENV Emergency Assistance Program will continue this fall semester to provide one-time $500 grants to students in need. Learn how to help here.
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Stay looped in. ENV is on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Vimeo (@cppenv). Stay on top of important deadlines with ENV Student Success Advising Center (@cpp_envadvising).
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interdepartmental | stay in the know
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ARCHITECTURE
A group of 5th-year architecture students led by Henry Chu ('21) and Airene Dizon ('21) have established the Cal Poly Pomona student chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects (CPP-NOMA).
"In light of recent events, the inaugural members strongly value the promotion of inclusivity and diversity in practice and academia," Chu shared. "CPP-NOMA is driven by our three core beliefs — to inspire youth, to elevate opportunities, and to share a common voice. Our mission is to establish a solid foundation for raising social awareness and giving back to the community with our fellow architecture students." To join, contact cpp.noma@gmail.com.
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Longtime supporter and partner HMC Architects has joined the Dean's Advisory Council, appointing Christina Singiser ('99, architecture) as its representative. Singiser is the Managing Principal of the firm's Los Angeles studio, where she is responsible for its strategic direction and overall performance.
Walt Disney Imagineering will continue to sponsor the Bobby Brooks Interdisciplinary Studio this academic year. The studio is co-taught by Professor Irma Ramirez and Professor Andrew Wilcox, chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture.
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ART
Sixteen University Art Galleries student assistants from 2018-20 designed the Galleries' first print-on-demand exhibition catalog, Jim Morphesis: Passion and Presence, Memento and Myth. Galleries Curator Michele Cairella Fillmore co-authored the book with Morpheses, who exhibited at the Kellogg University Art Gallery in Fall 2017.
Lead designers: visual communication design students Bridget Macario ('21) and Nicole Murkar ('23); graphic design alumni Maria de Lourdes Muñoz ('18), Mariela Nuñez ('18) and Indra Karki ('19).
Image/exhibition/promotional support in design, exhibition and production: architecture alumnus Socrates Medina ('18) and Antoinette Shapiro ('21); art history alumni Kimberly Andrade ('18) and Atineh Movsesian ('19); graphic design alumni Eduardo Chavez ('18) and Danielle Davis ('18); and visual communication design students Annette Ramirez ('21), Jed Irish Dar Juan ('21), Esteban Villanueva ('22), Grace Miller ('23) and Jasmine Navarro ('23).
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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Lecturer Nina Briggs — L.A. Forum for Architecture and Urban Design vice president and assistant curator of its summer exhibition — invites the public to Every.Thing.Changes, an exhibition that includes 20 newly commissioned works by participants asked to "uncover what will be the nature of collaboration, design practice, civic obstinacy, public space, climate adaptation, remembering and loss, and the future of L.A. in the 2020s."
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The department announced the creation of the National Association of Minority Landscape Architects (NAMLA), led by lecturer Steven Chavez and BSLA alumni Sara Abed ('14) and Alejandro Armas ('18). The organization was formed to address the lack of people of color in leadership roles in practice and academia, and to confront structural racism that marginalizes them from decision-making roles on how our landscapes are programmed, designed and taught. Among its plans are to provide educational and career development assistance. Connect on Instagram (@NationalAMLA) or email NationalAMLA@gmail.com. |
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URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING
Professor Alvaro Huerta discussed “In Defense of Immigrants: A Call to Action" on Wednesday, Aug. 12, the last installment of the CPP Summer of Social Justice Speaker Series hosted by the Department of Ethnic and Women’s Studies and its Social Justice Advisory Board. Huerta is the author of “Reframing the Latino Immigration Debate: Towards a Humanistic Paradigm” and “Defending Latina/o Immigrant Communities: The Xenophobic Era of Trump and Beyond.”
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REGENERATIVE STUDIES
The Lyle Center for the first time invited the public to attend two virtual theses defense. Anna Cook and Clement Tsang presented on Monday, Aug. 3.
Cal Poly Pomona is one of four winners of Pando Days, a competition challenging 10 Southern California schools to design, develop and prototype initiatives that implement a goal from the Los Angeles County Sustainability Plan. The CPP team, jointly represented by the Lyle Center and the Huntley College of Agriculture, addressed Goal 10 with their entry Food Within Reach.The CPP team is Assistant Professor Aaron Fox (Plant Science); Associate Professor Steve Archambault (Agribusiness and Food Industry Management); MSRS student Kathleen Blakistone and urban agriculture minors from two classes (Urban Farm Business Models and Agribusiness Senior Feasibility Study); Stephen Espinosa (Culinary Garden lead); Tim Price and Aaron Thormodesen (Aquaponics Project leads); Joaquin Perfecto; Ar C. de Castro; and Jinnio Vincencio.
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bookmark | hear from an expert
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“Advocacy and community development planners have been working on this issue and other forms of injustice for decades," Willson writes. "But how can planners working in technical fields such as land use regulation, transportation planning or environmental analysis address these issues?”
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CONNECT WITH APSA
Join Urban and Regional Planning majors by following our Instagram and Facebook group. This year we have our newly created Discord server as a platform for planning students and ENV friends to casually hang out!
— Aaron Hernandez, President, CPP APSA
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MENTAL WELLNESS IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Join Raquel Capacete from CAPS and the ENV Student Council for a presentation and Q&A on digital learning and advice on managing stress. Must have a Zoom account and Zoom ID for registration. See you there!
— Calora Boyd,
Vice President, ENV Council
When
Friday, 8/21 @ 12pm PT; Encore: Saturday, 8/22
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Registration: Sign up here.
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ENV COUNCIL FUNDRAISING DIRECTOR
Do you have a background in student leadership or seeking an opportunity to expand your involvement during our first fully-remote semester? The ENV Council is looking for a student within the College of Environmental Design who is interested in taking on the responsibility of Fundraising Director. No prior experience required!
— Sarah Zughayer,
Director of Public Relations, ENV Council
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img | stories in pictures
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perspectives | virtual thesis defense
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KINCENTRIC ECOLOGY | Anna Cook ('20, master's in regenerative studies; '18, gender, ethnic and multicultural studies) defended her thesis,"Regenerating Kin: A Critical Dialogue on Environmental Policy and Indigenous Principles" on Aug. 3 in a public virtual event attended by more than 30 faculty and classmates.
"My undergrad capstone was on how Native American women express activism and heal communities through gardens," Cook said. "So I already had in mind Indigenous rights and the impacts of settler colonialism. When I started the RS program I very quickly focused on the effects of the relationship dynamics between people and their environments, rather than whether we as individuals choose to recycle, or the benefits of electric cars."
Cook's thesis will be published (and publicly available) in the Bronco Scholar Library. Below is an abridged version of her abstract:
"This research highlights Indigenous scholars and Indigenous voices in the next phase of environmentalism, as humans face ever-increasing degradation to the planet, and highlights the importance of a multispecies emotional connection to landscape as inclusive of more-than-human elements of nature. Incorporating concepts of aliveness, relationality, landscape stewardship, and a dialogue between traditional ecological knowledge and Western science illustrates some of the dynamics at play in kincentric ecology."
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opportunities | your professional development
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alumni | designing the future
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Barbara Bouza ('85, architecture) has been named President, Business Operations, Design & Delivery at Walt Disney Imagineering, joining its senior leadership team under president — and fellow alumnus — Bob Weis ('80, architecture).
In her new role, Bouza will oversee an interdisciplinary team of creative and technical experts, working across WDI to design, develop and execute projects for Disney theme parks, attractions, resort hotels, cruise ships, retail, dining and entertainment centers.
Bouza most recently served as Co-Managing Director, Principal at Gensler's Los Angeles office, where she worked with clients such as Netflix, Amgen, JPL/NASA and the City of Hope. She was president of the Los Angeles chapter of the American Institute of Architects (2019), and a board member of the Southern California chapter of the International Interior Design Association.
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ON THE GRID is produced by the College of Environmental Design (ENV) at Cal Poly Pomona. Send your news, announcements and upcoming (virtual) events to env@cpp.edu.
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