SUNY ESF Center For Community Design Research

The 3rd year graduate landscape architecture studio created a pop-up community engagement event on Saturday on Syracuse’s Near Northside in collaboration with Hopeprints. Residents answered questions about how they move around the neighborhood, destinations, and desired improvements to conditions. Fun activities and valuable local knowledge shared.

The 3rd year MLA graduate landscape architecture studio is collaborating with Hopeprint to engage residents through participatory planning in the development of a neighborhood plan. Three students took part in this summer event. Will keep you posted on the progress.

Hello everyone! We are the Near Westside Team Research Team, and this is our year 3 CNCS members. Left —> Right: Nicky, Michelle, Jylecia, Maddie and Maren. Nicky, Jy and Maddie are our teen researchers and have been working hard to share the pervious years work with the community. Follow our page to see what we’ve been up to!

To friends in and around Syracuse this fund will help keep everyone cool and having fun outside this summer.

#SyracuseSwimsOn It's summertime in the City of Syracuse! A time - under normal circumstances - when the City of Syracuse Parks & Recreation's Aquatics department would be hiring and training upwards of 150 youth to spend a memorable summer working at the city pools as Lifeguards and ...

We are working on two projects with local community partners this summer, both virtually and not in-person due to the Covid-19 restrictions. Although very different from each other, they both engage neighborhood residents in exploring issues of importance to them, the broader community and beyond.
Our “community conversations” participatory research project is in its second year. Formally titled “Raising the Next Generation of Community Leaders: A participatory research project with teenagers of the Near Westside Neighborhood of Syracuse, NY”, we call it the Teen Research Project.
Funded by the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) the team has been engaging other residents and partners in exploring questions related to how crime and violence affects the lives of people in the neighborhood. In Year 2 we have a team of six teen researchers working in collaboration with Profs Maren King and Dr Christina Limpert; Leah Russell and staff of the Syracuse Peacemaking Center; and resident Yanira Johnson as the neighborhood project assistant. This spring and summer two ESF LA students are helping the team create posters about their process and findings. This summer the teens will also be working with the Peacemaking Center on action projects related to their research. We’ll provide more regular updates on their progress.
Earlier this spring the team met with representatives of the the Syracuse Parks Dept and the Syracuse Police Dept to review their findings.

Check out the post about the Visioning Voices event on Urban Trails at the Crossroads of New York State that we held on Oct 30, 2018! 2nd year graduate students and 3rd year undergrad students in landscape architecture helped facilitate and record info from the workshop portion.

We had a great turnout for all of the activities for the downtown event about Urban Trails. It was a beautiful fall day in Central New York. Thanks to the steering committee for the time spent organizing and helping out the day of the event!

Save the date and Register online for our next visioning Voices event on Thursday March 8, 2018.

Syracuse’s Southside and Strathmore neighborhoods invite you to join us for this event about how play is not just for children! Play as a lifelong activity can bring multiple benefits to each of us personally and for our communities.
For more information or registration please go to:
https://visioningvoices.eventbrite.com

A story from SUNY about the work we are doing with the Arcahaie Haiti community, locally based organizations organizations and other SUNY colleagues.

A Master Plan Comes to Life for the Sustainable Village and Learning Community in Haiti | Big Ideas Blog In November, it was anounced that SUNY was undertaking a collaborative partnership to create a Sustainable Village and Learning Community (SVLC) in Akayè, Haiti.

Save the date for our next Visioning Voices Event on Nov.15.