Formal Education

• The Baker Canal Corridor Project

  The Baker Canal Corridor Project will create a culturally sensitive collaborative that brings environmental projects, entrepreneurship, research and education to communities in a manner that encourages a comprehensive understanding and...
  Research
• 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
• Environmental Communication for Coastal Louisiana

  The project aims to develop interdisciplinary knowledge of best practices in coastal environmental communication, using research and expertise in environmental psychology, coastal sustainability, community resilience, mass communication, and public relations....
  Research