Carlos Balsas
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This research project is an analysis of pedestrian and bicycle safety concerns in downtown and inner-city areas of Phoenix.
Grantor: Catholic Healthcare West, $25,000
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Diane Bender |
Written and illustrated by Dr. Diane M. Bender, "Design Portfolios: Moving from Traditional to Digital" is a 400-page comprehensive full-color book that describes to new students of architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture how to produce and disseminate both a traditional printed portfolio and a digital portfolio.
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Prasad Boradkar |
The grant will support the work of student teams exploring new nano-based product design and development in the areas of human health and enhancement. The goal of the project is help students realize nanotechnology's promise of generating products and services with revolutionary and positive social benefits.
Grantor: National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance, $30,000. |
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Beverly Brandt |
Brandt's book, The Craftsman & The Critic, examines in succession, a profession, a place, an organization, a group, a theory and its manifestation, a dispersal of a shared ideal, and a revival. Each chapter explores the impact of one of these topics upon definitions of usefulness and beauty, and establishes interconnections among ideas, persons, and places.
Grantor: Craft Research Fund grant, $15,000.
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press, Boston + Amherst
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Aaron Golub |
Phoenix, like many large U.S. cities, is placing renewed emphasis on the livability of its urban core. The Valley Metro Light Rail, the largest single infrastructure investment in the region, will carry thousands of commuters, students and visitors back and forth to work, school, shopping, and sports events. This research seeks to understand, in quantitative and qualitative terms, the community’s views and opinions of the current operation of 7th Avenue and 7th Street, and how it can be improved to better meet the changing community needs.
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Darren Petrucci |
Staff Members with Scottsdale Public Art are researching opportunities for public art to be introduced into particular areas of the city as a means to reinforce the cultural presence of certain districts, landmarks, commercial developments, or public events. These staff members open the Google Earth platform and turn on the appropriate GIS layers provided and maintained by Scottsdale Planning & Development Services to aid them in the visualization and identification of these opportunities for public art.
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Deborah Schneiderman
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The goal of this project is to enhance
the workspace of General Dynamics Scottsdale location through design,
thereby creating a sustainable, inspiring and functional work
environment. Second year students in the Department of Interior Design will
analyze the site as well as the needs of employees who work in the
current facilities. Design solutions will be created to make the
workspace an innovative, sustainable, accessible, safe, and invigorating
place.
Funding Provided by General Dynamics in
Scottsdale, 2008.
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This project generated design solutions for system furniture that reflects the dynamic work styles a new generation workforce. Key elements of the problem were to design systems that are sustainable, flexible, allow for the circulation of light and air, provide availability to views and offer a level of customization and
personalization by the user.
Funding provided by General Dynamics in Scottsdale, 2007.
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John Takamura |
The goal of this project is to revitalize the Department of Economic Security brand by providing a well managed blend of research and design utilizing a transdisciplinary team made up of Visual Communication, Industrial, and Interior Design undergraduate and graduate student researchers. The final deliverable for the project will be a revitalized DES brand identity and a branded facilities lobby design concept.
Grantor: Arizona Department of Economic Security
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Ruth Yabes |
The project was a study of existing conditions and development opportunities around light rail in the Camelback Corridor in Phoenix. This study was conducted by the 2007 Introductory Urban Planning Study in the College of Design School of Planning. The project was a collaboration between the City of Phoenix, METRO light rail, the School of Planning and the Phoenix Urban Research Laboratory (PURL), and the business owners and citizens from the Corridor. The project emerged out of the City's concerns over the impacts of the light rail on the adjoining neighborhoods.
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