News & Events

  • Join Us! We have an open faculty position
    We have an open, full-time, career-track Assistant Professor position. We are looking for someone to join us who has an interest in design justice, climate, and open-ended pedagogy. We have wonderful students, faculty, and staff, with teaching greenhouse, farm, and forest nearby. More details are found here.  Please reach out with questions: jill.desimini@uconn.edu
  • Senior Liz Helmin wins CTASLA Honor Award
    Senior Liz Helmin won a CTASLA Honor Award for her project for LAND 3430: Design III. Project Description: The goal in redesigning downtown Storrs was to provide a seasonally inclusive space that emphasized the importance of placemaking opportunities for visitors, Mansfield residents, EO Smith students, and UConn students. The design included wind and solar/heat mitigation […]
  • LA Graduate Student Openings
    We are an energetic community of researchers working at the intersection of design, climate, justice, governance, and socio-ecological systems. We are committed to imagining a better planet for human and non-human constituents and we are seeking graduate students to help us with these endeavors across our four labs. LA_Grad_Student_Openings