About the Lecture:
The Coastal Sustainability Studio is a trans-disciplinary working environment where designers, scientists and engineers come together to address coastal issues through systems based approaches. At the CSS, we intensively study and respond to issues of settlement, coastal restoration, flood protection, and the economy. We bring together disciplines that normally work separately so that we can respond to critical coastal issues in a comprehensive way. CSS was conceived as a laboratory to develop new strategies that reduce risk to social, economic, and natural resources. The results of this design experimentation provide a sound basis for major policy decisions for adaptation through more sustainable land-use planning, protection, and education. The work of the studio over the last five years provides a model for how designers can play a critical role in societies responses to increasingly dynamic environments.
About the speaker:
Jori Erdman is the Director of the School of Architecture at Louisiana State University and member of the Executive Advisory Committee for the LSU Coastal Sustainability Studio. As Director of the School of Architecture, she has worked to focus the School on addressing the challenges facing the built environment through more interdisciplinary approaches with the landscape architecture program and research efforts related to the Coastal Sustainability Studio. She was the Design Editor of the Journal of Architectural Education from 2007-12. Her teaching and research activities focus on design, community outreach, design-build in architectural education and the cultural production of architecture. She has published numerous articles in these areas and has received grants and awards including two ACSA Collaborative Practice Awards and a Graham Foundation Grant. She received an M. Arch. degree from Columbia University in 1995 and a B.S. in Architecture from the University of Virginia in 1989.
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