The HLA department kicked off the new semester with their annual Welcome Back Taco Thursday celebration August 22. Students, faculty, and staff came together to enjoy tacos, trivia, cornhole, and a fun photobooth. A big thank you to Gloribel Rosales-Burdin and Brandy Pinkard for organizing this fantastic event. We also appreciate Pam Fisher, the HLA[Read More…]
This summer, two of Yiwei Huang‘s co-authored/contributed articles were published. In 2022-2023, Yiwei Huang collaborated with Dr. Weijie Hu, whom she met at the 2020 AAG conference, to write an article exploring whether place attachment can be formed in Public Rental Housing in China. The article has now been published in Urban Geography: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02723638.2024.2362507 In[Read More…]
After the children’s illustrated book on Indiana Native Plants (Monsters Love Native Blooms) was officially included in ASLA’s initiative, “STEM Literacy by Design,” ASLA invited the authors to a national webinar to discuss their reflections and inspirations regarding the journey. They will be featured in the 2nd Meet the Authors: STEM Literacy by Design series,[Read More…]
ASLA Chapters for Michigan, Illinois, Upstate NY, Ohio, Minnesota, and Indiana and the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects are hosting the 2024 Great Lakes Region Climate Action Seminar. This is the third in a series of events that explore landscape architecture’s role in addressing climate impacts in urban and natural systems across the Great Lakes[Read More…]
Assistant Professor Yiwei Huang, two undergraduate landscape Architecture students, Gabby Nivar and Jennifer Kerr, together with Ball State landscape architecture professor Taylor Metz, delivered an ASLA “STEM Literacy by Design” outreach with the children studying in Acton Academy at Fall Creek at Pendleton, Indiana. The goal of national ASLA’s STEM Literacy by Design program is to host a Story Time,[Read More…]
The 2024 Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) Conference was successfully held at St. Louis, MO. Four landscape architecture faculty attended the conference, including Erin Percevault, Sean Rotar, David Barbarash, and Yiwei Huang. The featured presentations are: “Combining Cohorts: A case study of student integration and experiences” presented by Sean Rotar and Dave Barbarash “Simulating Sites: predictive human behavior in proposed designs” presented[Read More…]
The case study report of the performance evaluation of Carmel Monon Boulevard and Midtown Plaza (by Yiwei Huang’s lab) has been published to the Landscape Architecture Foundation’s award-winning Landscape Performance Series! The study is funded through Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) Case Study Investigation (CSI) program, which offers a unique research collaboration and training program for faculty,[Read More…]
Wanting Zhang (MS student in Huang’s Lab) and Yiwei Huang published an interview piece (with site design horticulture director Mark Jirik) about “Planting Design for Children’s Spaces.” The piece is published on the official American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Professional Practice Networks (PPN) online story website, The Field. ASLA Field was created to give members[Read More…]