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  • Environmental Design Program Global Seminar Info Session Friday, Oct. 21st 12:00pm 134NW Summer Abroad 2023 Colombia, The Medellin Practicum/Studio (9 credits, 6 weeks) Rome Urban Site Analysis Design (9 credits, 6 weeks) Abroad.colorado.edu/?go=
  • Jota Samper 2022 Colombia Global Seminar Program
      This week after two years of being unable to do it because of the pandemic, we are starting out the 2022 Global Seminar Program. This year students from the Environmental Design University of Colorado Boulder traveled to Medellín to work
  • Community-Based Learning: benefits, challenges and lessons
      This research project will explore the past three decades of community engagement by examining the historical evolution of three affiliated research organizations at 91´«Ã½: CEDER, CYE, and CEDaR. Research students will conduct
  • This research project will explore the past three decades of community engagement by examining the historical evolution of three affiliated research organizations at 91´«Ã½: CEDER, CYE, and CEDaR. Research students will conduct interviews and
  • Shawhin Roudbari and Jota Samper new Co-Directors in renovated space
        We (Shawhin and Jota) propose to serve as co-directors of CEDaR. We propose co-directorship as a strategy to share the workload of leadership and to help diversify CEDaR’s portfolio of partners and activities. We have collaborated on
  • People walking on 500 block of Main Street in Longmont
    As Longmont recovers from a period of uncertainty, residents can share their vision for the downtown area, thanks in part to CEDaR.
  • Luz Galicia stands by a statue holding a sign that says "Stop evictions." Luz is holding a sign that says this neighborhood stands for...
    Struggling to support herself and her two daughters, Luz Galicia moved from her large house to a manufactured home. A year and a half later the park's landlord decided to sell the property, displacing 100 families. Luz now works to educate and empower park residents.
  • Tom Sundro Lewis points to his home
    In 2005 a trailer slated for the dump was transported to Mapleton Mobile Home Park in Boulder and renovated there. Built by more than 50 91´«Ã½ students, the Trailer Wrap project held lessons for future project-based learning, including a CEDaR-led manufactured home renovation planned for this summer or fall, depending on the state of the pandemic.
  • GUB Director Mara Mintzer listens to third grader share her ideas.
    For the past 12 years Growing Up Boulder was a part of 91´«Ã½'s  Community Engagement, Design and Research (CEDaR) Center. Now one of the most successful child-friendly city initiatives in the world, GUB is transitioning to an independent nonprofit, a model for how the university can develop, nurture and then spin off nonprofit activities.
  • People with masks on organizing food at a food bank.
    In this collaboration between the city of Denver and the university, the Community Engagement, Design and Research Center (CEDaR) and the Denver Department of Health & Environment are jointly tackling how to best manage information and activities among dozens of small and large Denver food banks during times of increased demand.
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