Caryn will be in Mexico City next week presenting at EDRA 54 in a panel on the importance of design and spaces during the pandemic. Titled “Spatial Differentiation and Student Wellbeing: Accounts of Pandemic-Related Campus Restrictions and the Construction of Place-Meaning,” the presentation shares findings from a qualitative interview study conducted during the pandemic and in the year following.
Caryn’s Community Engagement Studio partnered with Abundance Farm, a food justice farm and outdoor environmental classroom in Northampton. Students first worked in teams to generate a master plan for a Placeholder Project that envisions future farm program expansion. Then they designed and built a custom potting table that articulates the community partner’s educational mission.
Caryn and her co-host, Chris Flint Chatto from ZGF in Portland, are hosting the fall ACSA/AIA Research Conference focused on Material Economies at UMass Amherst.
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Caryn was in St. Louis presenting at the ACSA Annual Meeting. She was part of a research panel put together by the ACSA Research and Scholarship Committee focused on REDEFINING CLIMATE RESEARCH IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT. She also shared her work on Abundance Farm in a session on FOOD NETWORKS, TRADITIONS & SYSTEMS.
Caryn has been selected as a 2022 Women in Design Award of Excellence honoree. The award is presented in recognition of a person who has built one’s own life around design, whose work exemplifies the best of process and product, and who uses a position of achievement to give back to the world of design and to the community at large. She was honored in Boston at a reception following the Boston Society of Architects Women in Design Intersections Symposium on October 28.
These decommissioned electrical towers were scheduled to be demolished. As one element of the Corazón / The Heart of Holyoke project, they have been repurposed as dynamic gateways to the future Puerto Rican cultural district and an invitation to Holyoke’s arts and entertainment area.
Caryn recently published an article in the Journal of Green Building entitled “Cultivating Stewardship in the Next Generation of Designers: Employing an Experiential Case Based Method Using Living Building Projects.”
This research grew out of teaching with the three local Living Buildings and being able to interact with the project teams as part of Voices from the Field, Caryn’s hybrid seminar and field-based course.
Caryn was in Greenville, South Carolina this week presenting in a panel on Designing For Health and Well-Being with a focus on academic settings. Titled “Spatial Composition and Student Well-Being: Student Accounts of Pandemic-Related Campus Modifications,” the presentation shares findings from a qualitative interview study documenting student accounts of their experience of Covid-related campus modifications.
Caryn will be in Miami this week presenting a paper coauthored with colleague Carey Clouse. Titled “Spatial Appropriation During the Pandemic,” the paper discusses an observational research project conducted in the summer of 2021 to identify the ways in which spatial appropriation, particularly during a global pandemic, may have long-term opportunities and consequences for urban Third Places.
New members of The American Institute of Architects (AIA) College of Fellows were honored this week in an investiture ceremony at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. Exciting to share the event with other members of the College of Fellows Classes of 2020 & 2021!