SPOTLIGHT

ESLARP, in collaboration with the Community Informatics Initiative and Department of Landscape Architeture, will be supporting a Design Workshop and Seminar on Sao Tome starting this December.  This is the outcome of a collaboration has been growing for several years now between faculty and students from the University of Illinois and governmental and non-governmental organizations in São Tomé, an island nation off the coast of West Africa.

Professors Laura Lawson, Rebecca Ginsberg, and Lynne Dearborn will be the team leaders on a unique interdisiplinary design opportunity.  Participants will travel to São Tomé during winter break and work will continue throughout the spring semester.  Find out how to apply for the Design Workshop and Seminar.

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Parks and Open Space

Studios and courses in the Departments of Landscape Architecture and Recreation, Sport, Tourism have worked with partners to improve the social, recreational, cultural and environmental capacities of parks, open space, and vacant land in East St. Louis. In 2005, a landscape architecture studio worked with community partners who wanted to reclaim vacant land for neighborhood parks.  Another group of landscape architecture faculty and students developed landscape plans for community services, such as the Eagle’s Nest transitional shelter for homeless veterans.

Examples of Projects Related to Parks and Open Spaces:

•    KaBoom! Build, Virginia Park, June 2009
•    Sunken Garden, May 2009
•    Virginia Park, May 2009
•    Lalumier Community Garden, May 2009
•    Lincoln Park Playground and Pavilion Alternatives 2006
•    Jones Park Master Plan 2006
•    Pullman Porter Community Park design and implementation, 2005-present
•    Master plan and reunion programming for Jones Park, 2005
•    Lincoln Park Analysis, 2005
•    Eagle's Nest Transitional Housing Facility Site Design, 2003
•    Illinois Avenue Playground
•    Virginia Park Enhancement, 2001
•    Gardening Manual, 1994