Geodesign program launches video series to raise awareness about the discipline
Discover how this game-changing program helps students deliver creative solutions to solve land-use challenges around the globe. Hear more about the Geodesign graduate program.
Geodesign know-how enabled student to thrive during internship
Lara Garcia reflects on how she bridged the worlds of spatial data analytics, GIS, and design to create a Regional Data Platform for nearly 200 communities. Learn more about her path to success.
A Colorado City Turns to Geodesign to Plan a Creek Walk
Find out how the city planners applied a Geodesign process to fuel collaboration and improved decision-making with the development of a popular area attraction.
Geodesign program supports working professionals in reaching their goals
While trying to create the first 100 percent sustainable “smart city” in Abu Dhabi, Geodesign student Shannon McElvaney discovered he wanted to get an advanced degree in Geodesign to help develop his design thinking skills. Read more about his path to graduation.
Portland teams up with Penn State geodesign students for Olympic bid
James Sipes, faculty member for the Penn State geodesign online master’s program, recently challenged his students to create an entire complex of sports facilities for the city of Portland, which hopes to host the Olympics at some point in the future. Read more about how students tackled this real-world scenario.
Using geodesign for Major League Baseball stadium development
Jim Sipes, a faculty member for the online geodesign program at Penn State and renowned designer with Sand County Studios, developed a project to investigate the new Atlanta Braves baseball stadium and neighborhood development as the challenge for the fall 2016 Geodesign II course on urban landscape change issues. Real-world data is used to inform the creation of different design ideas for a student-selected site. Read more about the project.
Second Geodesign Studio Underway
Our second Geodesign Studio – GEODZ 852: Geodesign Studio II: Urban/District-scale Challenges – focuses on the complexity of urban and district-scale landscape change issues. The studio format provides the closest approximation to a professional setting, where multiple consultants and stakeholders are able to collaborate on the process. Learn more about Geodesign Studio II: Urban/District-scale Challenges.
Join us at the Premier Conference Event for Geodesign in the United States
The ESRI Geodesign Summit 2017 will take place on January 24–26, 2017 at ESRI headquarters in beautiful Redlands, California. Penn State's own Kelleann Foster is a featured speaker at this year’s summit, alongside a number of other noted Geodesign professionals and innovators. Learn more at the conference website. We hope you will plan to attend and talk with our Penn State team there.
Penn State Geodesign launches YouTube Channel
The more we learn about Geodesign — the more we realize the power of this proven process. To help build awareness, Penn State has launched a Geodesign YouTube channel. The first videos on our channel are curated excerpts from last year's Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), offered through Coursera, which attracted 17,000 people worldwide. Please subscribe and share with your friends and colleagues — we will be regularly adding more content to our channel.
