Projects

CCRD works with communities to carry out planning and design projects rooted in the communities’ own stories. These stories of place reflect local history, current circumstances, and unique, place-specific opportunities that can be harnessed for the future. 

Based in Landscape Architecture and drawing an interdisciplinary group of students from across the ESF campus, CCRD mentors students to develop innovative regional and community design. Our planners- and designers-in-training, working with a community’s leaders, volunteers, citizen scientists, and other interested parties, document community needs and values, conduct field studies, identify significant community and site-specific features, and create alternatives for design interventions. This work is produced iteratively with community input and then shared in the form of text and graphic representations of landscape analysis, needs assessment, and planning and design scenarios.