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Environmental Design (EVDS) assistant professor, Joshua Taron, was awarded both the Alberta regional and the People’s Choice award in Migrating Landscapes; a national architecture competition.

The competition invites young Canadian architects and designers to reflect on their migration experiences and cultural memories and to design dwellings onto a new landscape. Migrating Landscapes examines how Canadians express their diverse cultural memories and the settling, and unsettling, dynamic of migration in contemporary settlements and/or dwellings.

After more than 100 years of trying to preserve the bison in North America, conservationists are relocating 70 of the species from Canada to their ancestral home in Montana – the second such move in three years.

The plains bison – 35 female and 35 male – come from Elk Island National Park in Alberta, where herds of the animals have been raised in conservation since the species faced near global extinction in the early 20th century.

Naheed Nenshi, Mayor of Calgary

"Over the last few months, we've learned so much about Calgary neighbourhoods—what works and what could work better—as a result of the Project Calgary series.

The Faculty of Environmental Design (EVDS) is offering two unique research opportunities to both graduate and post-doctoral students interested in resilience and regional sustainability.

The students would work on a project to develop and implement an innovative approach to sustainability that incorporates social ecological systems thinking into strategic policy formation for regional land use planning.

Michael Weinstock—architect and director of the Emergent Technologies and Design programme in the Graduate School of the Architectural Association School of Architecturein London, England—is giving a lecture on Thursday in which he will explore how cities are no longer simply regarded as spatially extended material artifacts but as complex systems that are analogous to living organisms.

Over the past few decades governments, corporations, organizations and citizens have been struggling to understand the implications of rapid industrialization, population growth, resource depletion, information technology and other factors on our health, happiness and quality of life. Given the many issues at play, the multiple scales impacted, the global dimensions at hand, and the complexity of activities, sustainability
as concept and application has been elusive and difficult, yet increasingly warranted and urgent.

Sipping coffee in a spacious Calgary bungalow, Sandra Horley is a long way from home. The single mother of two lives in Forest Lawn, an east side neighbourhood considered among the city’s most challenged. Car-less and often without bus fare, the 43-year-old, who depends on social assistance, gets around mainly by foot.

Environmental Design (EVDS) Master candidate, Colleen Arnison has received the Government of Alberta Graduate Citizenship Award (AGCA) for her contribution to community development and community leadership during the 2010-11 school year.

Richard T.T. Forman, considered by many to be the ‘father’ of landscape ecology and road ecology, will be speaking at the downtown campus as part of The Faculty of Environmental (EVDS) Design Matters lecture series.

Forman, a professor of Landscape Ecology at Harvard University’s graduate school of design, has helped to catalyze the emergence of urban-region ecology and planning. His primary scholarly interest links science with spatial pattern to interweave nature and people on the land.

Students in the environmental design faculty (EVDS) are exploring mass customization in residential architecture with the help of experienced home builder Charron Ungar, the CEO of Avi Urban the multi-family division of Homes by Avi.

The collaboration is part of the reDESIGN Centre, a faculty initiative started in 2010 that integrates real world projects and engagement with industry professionals into academic programs in architecture, planning, and environmental design.