The 2015 Novem Mason Symposium on Community-Engaged Design will focus on housing the homeless and will feature Brent Brown, of bcWORKSHOP and Dallas CityDesign Studio. The UNCG symposium will be March 5-7. Register online here. Registration to the symposium is free. In lieu of a registration fee, please make a donation … Continued
The Center for Community-Engaged Design has recently launched a crowdfunding campaign for Graffiti Garden through The Spartan Project at UNCG. Graffiti Garden is a one-year old urban-community project that focuses on providing transitional, homeless, and unaccompanied youth with an educational garden plot in which to cultivate skills for a lifetime of healthful … Continued
Conference theme; America Will Be! The Art and Power of “Weaving our We” Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life 2015 National Conference September 30 – October 3, 2015 Hosted by UMBC Baltimore MD The members of Imagining America advance a vision of the world in which publicly engaged … Continued
UNCG Assistant Professor Travis Hicks, M.Arch., AIA, IIDA, IDEC, LEED©AP, NCIDQ, is the 2015 Robert L. Sigmon Service-Learning Award recipient. Hosted by North Carolina Campus Compact, the Robert L. Sigmon Service-Learning Award recognizes one faculty person on a member campus who has made significant contributions toward furthering the practice of service-learning. The award is named … Continued
Save the Date! On March 5-7, 2015, the UNCG Department of Interior Architecture and Center for Community-Engaged Design will host the 2nd Annual Novem Mason Symposium on Community-Engaged Design. This year, the focus of the symposium will be on homelessness and housing the homeless, and will feature Brent Brown, of … Continued
Artists and creative professionals will share secrets to success in the arts at UNCG’s Southern Entrepreneurship in the Arts Conference on Feb. 21, 2015, at UNCG’s EUC. Through presentations and workshops, the event invites artists, art organizations, creative producers and students to connect and collaborate around opportunities and strategies for … Continued
The Council for Interior Design Accreditation (CIDA) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2014 Award for Excellence. This award recognizes and celebrates outstanding practices that advance the cause of excellence in interior design education. The first place winner is Travis L. Hicks, Director of the Center for Community-Engaged … Continued
Entering the sustainable materials library at UNCG’s Interior Architecture (IARc) Program feels like stepping into a professional architecture firm. While most interior architecture departments have sample rooms stocked with discards and cast off donations from manufacturers, IARc has done something different. Their ever-expanding resource does not simply house materials. It tells … Continued
The Center for Community-Engaged Design (CC-ED), led by faculty member Travis Hicks, has steadily gained traction and interest in the Greensboro community. This fall, Travis traveled to Edmonton, Alberta Canada on October 6-8 to co-present Design Pedagogy as a means for Community Engagement with Professor Rebekah Radtke from the University of Kentucky. The 15th Annual Conference of the Engagement Scholarship Consortium goal … Continued
Photo Caption: A graphic design piece by Think Tanker Kristine Guhne that combines several think tank ideas in one. The Department of Interior Architecture, Department of Art, and the Lloyd International Honors College invite you to participate in a THINK TANK meeting on Tuesday, November 4, 2-3pm, in the Third Floor … Continued