Center for
Community&Design
Preservation
CCDP Update
Open House | Monday, September 27th, 2010 | 225 W. Broad Street, Athens, GA 30602 | www.ced.uga.edu/pso
A Broad Street Presence
The CED Public Service & Outreach Office gets a Main Street Storefront
The CCDP Staff welcomes you
Pratt Cassity, Director pcassity@uga.edu 706-369-5868 Jennifer Lewis, Public Service Project Coordinator jmlewis@uga.edu 706-369-5885 Eleonora Machado, Graphics Coordinator emachado@uga.edu 601-543-7021 Melissa Roberts, FindIT! Coordinator FindIT! Historic Resource Survey Program roberts@uga.edu 706-369-5882 Drane Wilkinson, NAPC Executive Director National Alliance of Preservation Commissions drane@uga.edu 706-369-5878 Paul Trudeau, NAPC Program Specialist ptrudeau@uga.edu 706-369-5881 Laura Kviklys Office Assistant lkviklys@uga.edu 706-542-4731 fax: 706-369-5864
The Center for Community Design & Preservation (CCDP) and all of its programs serve as the public service and outreach wing of the College of Environment and Design (CED). Because community engagement is one of only four goals in CED’s strategic plan, the CCDP staff — Director Pratt Cassity, Melissa Roberts, Jennifer Lewis, Eleonora Machado, Drane Wilkinson, and Paul Trudeau — and affiliated students are vitally important to the future of the college. The many CCDP local, regional, state, national, and international outreach projects also directly fulfill the University of Georgia’s important Land Grant and Sea Grant missions, a renewed University emphasis on international engagement, and contribute to UGA’s high national rankings. I believe that CCDP’s relocation to the Broad Street facility will provide many benefits, as the staff and students work to create a brighter future for UGA students and communities throughout Georgia and beyond. The new offices finally provide enough space for CCDP’s many functions and a street front presence to the community. Please join me in wishing everyone in the Center for Community Design & Preservation the very best. Daniel J. Nadenicek, CED DEAN
A Walk-in Design Center
Mission of the Center for Community Design & Preservation (CCDP) The mission of the Center for Community Design & Preservation (CCDP) at the College of Environment and Design (CED) is to provide service-learning experiences for students in landscape architecture, historic preservation and environmental planning. Conceptual community design services are delivered by utilizing a mix of faculty, professional staff, and students, which helps leverage professional assistance to implement projects. Students receive the practical hands-on experience that makes them more marketable as graduates. Our projects link University resources with public needs. The cornerstone for all services is community-based results. The office provides cutting edge and energetic results whether working on international, national, state, or local levels. Our highly regarded, hands-on assistance includes partnerships with state agencies — like the Department of Natural Resources and Department of Community Affairs; international NGOs — such as ICOMOS, Conservation International and the Trust for Mutual Understanding; utility companies — Georgia Power, Oglethorpe Power and Georgia Transmission Corporation; and national partners — National Park Service, National Trust for Historic Preservation and National Endowment for the Arts. Our Center helps students, citizens, elected officials, local decision makers, and University of Georgia faculty reach new levels of excellence.
The Art Our Programs PETER FREY
Peter Frey, a staff photographer at the University of Georgia, produced this series of images from Ellis Island in New York before significant restoration began. These images were part of an exhibit at Circle Gallery. Additionally Frey has received accolades for his international work. He traveled in Iraq as a member of a video documentary crew during February and March of 2004, near the one-year anniversary of the invasion. He has worked in Cambodia, Cuba, Central America, India, Kosovo, South Africa, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. His work has been exhibited at UGA’s Tate Center Gallery, as well as the Mercury Gallery and the Athens Institute for Contemporary Arts.
ALEX NAGEL
Alex Nagel is originally from Germany and is a 2005 graduate of the MLA program at CED. He now lives in San Diego with his wife Dawn where he is a practicing landscape architect. His passion is photography and while at UGA he participated in two summer studios in Ghana, West Africa. From those study abroad experiences came an outpouring of images used as tourist post cards, report covers and in public and gallery exhibitions.
JOHN LINLEY
These images are from an exhibit at Circle Gallery in 1998 commemorating the life and work of John Linley, AIA, 1916-1996. Linley was a true original as a practicing architect, a much-loved professor in Environmental Design and the author of two books on Georgia’s architecture (The Georgia Catalogue: A Guide to the Architecture of the State and Architecture of Middle Georgia: The Oconee Area). He was an exemplary gardener, star of REM’s “Shiny Happy People” video, quintessential southerner and a true gentleman.
FindIT Collection
The FindIt photo collection is an assortment of images taken from field work throughout the state. All of the photos were taken by graduate assistants from 2003-2008. For more information on FindIt exhibits, please visit www.uga.edu/findit.
You can also read and learn about us online http://www.ced.uga.edu/pso FindIT! (www.uga.edu/findit)
NAPC has been housed at the UGA College of Environment and Design’s Center for Community Design & Preservation since 1987, and provides graduate assistantships and student internships for students enrolled in the Master of Historic Preservation Program.
FindIT! is a state-wide cultural resource survey program sponsored by the Georgia Transmission Corporation in partnership with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Historic Preservation Division (GA SHPO). FindIt! was created to help preserve and document historic resources throughout the state in order to facilitate their protection and serve as a step in the preservation planning process.
The Charrette Connection
The University of Georgia’s College of Environment and Design has been using the charrette process to help communities for many decades. Charrettes are rapid, intensive, and creative work sessions in which a design team focuses on a particular design problem and arrives at a collaborative solution.
Surveys are conducted by graduate students in of the UGA College of Environment and Design. All survey records are housed within the CCDP and become part of Georgia’s Natural, Archaeological, and Historic Resources GIS inventory (NAHRGIS).
NAPC (www.uga.edu/napc)
The National Alliance of Preservation Commisssions is a national organization devoted solely to serving local historic preservation commissions. NAPC provides technical support and manages an information network to help local commissions accomplish their preservation objectives.
been a campus leader in developing and implementing global service-learning programs concentrating on issues of sustainability, low-impact tourism, erosion control, outdoor recreation and civic leadership. Academic service-learning is a method of teaching and learning which integrates relevant community service with academic coursework to enhance learning, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities. Our programs have generated long lasting UGA relationships in places like Ghana, Croatia and Thailand.
Our charrettes are high-energy, new vision, community improvement events! They result in concepts that leverage implementation funds. Nearly all of the communities where charrettes were done have gone on to receive grants or local funds to implement our recommendations. In short, charrettes WORK!
Global Service-Learning
The Center for Community Design & Preservation has
Individual Design Projects
Several small scale design projects are completed each year where our staff and students produce conceptual master plans for small parcels and special properties like cemeteries and parks.
Outreach Projects
Each year the CCDP completes graphic design projects, training programs, group facilitation and project development initiatives for not-for-profit organizations and partners within the University System of Georgia.
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*with equal emphasis as the other program areas - Find it, NAPC, Charrette Connection and Global Service-Learning
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