1+1>2 Aran Wiener ’09, Bird Fellow to Bali, Indonesia
News from the Conway School
May 2015 Dear Conway Alums and Friends, 332 S. Deerfield Road PO Box 179 Conway, MA 01341-0179
At their best, designers observe and create patterns of relationships, processes, change, and interconnections. The recent patterns of happenings with the Conway School—a few of which are headlined here—show how much our world is expanding. We are finding more ways to be of service and more places to apply ecological design and planning. We are receiving more reports of important work being done by alums. And we are finding more overlap among these connections, all of which help create something much greater than the sum of its parts. (Watch for con’text 2015 and more news.) Here is a sampling of the pieces; can you detect the patterns?
Russell Wallack ‘15
Paul Cawood Hellmund Director
• Conway students Cary White ’15 + Russell Wallack ’15 are just back from the Rocky Mountains (above), working on a master planning project arranged by Sara Preston ’09. • Boston Society of Landscape Architects honored the winter Green Streets Guidebook project for Holyoke (left) of Michele Carlson, Willa Caughey + Nelle Ward, Class of 2014.
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Conway is greater than the sum of its parts.
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SEPT. Students and faculty joined the Climate Change march in NYC . OCT. Madame Bintou Sissoko (above) + Jinny St. Goar, of the NGO Mali Nyeta, helped us plan a project in West Africa. OCT. Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse (right) and Easthampton Mayor Karen Cadieux joined us in honoring just-retired Massachusetts Representative John Olver. DEC + MAR. Student projects—fall plan sets and winter reports—got done!
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JAN. Russell Wallack ’15 gave alums and other guests a tour of Conway’s new satellite teaching facility in Easthampton, Mass. Enrollment is underway and classes start there in September.
FEB. Of course, we didn’t let the long winter keep us inside. Bill Lattrell leads the way on a Friday in the field. MAR. There’s nothing like a sip of warm maple syrup during a sap-season trip to Boyden’s Sugar House. APR. Kate O’Brien ’15 and David Weber ’15 started planning trails on the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica for CIRENAS, thanks to a connection Kate Cairoli ’13 made for us. Generous funding has been provided for this and the project in Mali by the Blue Yak Foundation. Want more than just headlines? Send us your email address: emails@csld.edu
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