Capacity Building

• Inland from the Coast: A multi-scalar approach to regional climate change responses

  Gathering and disseminating local ecological knowledge about landscape functionality Providing high quality, accessible information on current and future environmental conditions to influence community decision-making Evaluating past events to support adaptation...
  Research, Capacity Building, Visual Communication, Community Planning
• Morgan City 50/50/2050

  Students were required to propose a bold future for Morgan City, designing building and site systems to facilitate exchange within a proposed degree of fortification or fluctuation.
  Capacity Building
• Fabricating the Delta

  Fabricating the Delta introduced digital fabrication as an act of making, analyzing, and positioning design in relation to coastal restoration. The final product was a full-scale kiosk that presents the...
  Capacity Building
• Wax Lake Delta NERR Research Facility Design Studio

  In the NERR Research Facility Studio, the students addressed the challenges of building within a deltaic condition. The emerging ecosystem, lying between blurred lines of land and water, provides a...
  Capacity Building
• Advanced Research in Coastal Ecological Design

  Complementing the overarching theme, the course was composed of two major components addressing specific research agendas within the CSS: 1) the development of content for the Expanded Small Scale Physical...
  Capacity Building
• UNSEEN: Interpreting Constructed Ecologies

  The intent of the studio was to research regional planning, coastal ecology, ecological restoration, large-scale water management and infrastructure, and the complex relationships formed between settlement and ecology over time....
  Capacity Building
• Disturbed Systems

  The design projects chosen by student teams defined and then critically evaluated the variety of ecological and man-made systems at work in varying scales on the site. The students addressed...
  Capacity Building
• Methods for Leeville

  The goal was to understand an architectural documentation and design process for investigating at-risk towns in the Gulf South, using Leeville as a case study.
  Capacity Building
• LSU/Chevron: the Reimagined Shorebase

  The goal of this design investigation is to discover ways for Chevron, its employees, and the environment to successfully and sustainably co-exist in the productive and ever-changing Louisiana environment. The...
  Capacity Building
• Grand Isle Studio

  Attempting to confront the very particular challenges of design in a transforming Louisiana landscape, the Grand Isle Studio – an architecture course at LSU – addresses the challenge of architectural...
  Capacity Building
• EDRA45 New Orleans: Building with Change
  Capacity Building