COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING
ANNUAL REPORT
ACADEMIC YEAR 2011 – 2012
When the planets get aligned…
The Mayans already knew that 2012 was going to be special. Solar storms and planet alignments
can provide a good metaphor for the level of activity that we are experiencing. In line with the
―solar storms‖ metaphor, this year we have aggressively engaged in the transformation of our old
collection of administrative software systems into a single integrated system that will benefit our
institution in the longer term, but such a transition has certainly challenged our administrative
resources this year. We are also preparing ourselves for a university reaccreditation visit by the
Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA),
and in that process many of our activities had to be properly articulated into policy structures.
In relation with the ―planet alignment‖ metaphor, this year marks the end of our current
university strategic plan and the preparation of our next 5-year plan. It is in the context of our
next strategic plan that we see great opportunity for ―alignment‖. Our college has a welldocumented track record in providing distinctive educational experiences, leading disciplinary
innovation, investing in a vibrant school community, and engaging the needs of Indiana. That
track record combined with the additional resources provided by the CAP Student Enhancement
Fees, presents us with a promising new point of departure for our college.
As I prepare our college annual report, it is always very rewarding to look back into the last
academic year and to see how much has been accomplished by our faculty, students, and staff.
This year, such a humbling experience is combined with the eagerness triggered by our vision of
the future.
As in previous years, this report has adopted the structure of our current University Strategic
Plan and in such a way promotes integration and synergy through all our units. Next year the
structure of our report will follow the structure of our next strategic plan.
We hope you will enjoy reviewing this
report and share in our excitement and
enthusiasm. This is truly a great time to
be at The CAP.
Guillermo Vasquez de Velasco, PhD
Dean of the College of Architecture and
Planning
Ball State University
Table of Contents
GOAL 0
The College of Architecture and Planning will contribute to the distinctiveness of Ball State
University, and develop a unique identity among schools of architecture and planning.
GOAL 1
The College of Architecture and Planning will
promote academic excellence among
undergraduate and graduate students seeking a
rigorous learning experience.
GOAL 2
The College of Architecture and Planning will
support and reward faculty and student
scholarship of discovery, integration,
application, and teaching.
GOAL 3
The College of Architecture and Planning will
address local, state, national, and international
needs through activities that foster
collaboration and mutually beneficial
relationships with its diverse constituents.
GOAL 4
The College of Architecture and Planning will
improve the university community‘s quality
of life.
COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING
ANNUAL REPORT
ACADEMIC YEAR 2010 – 2011
Faculty/Staff
Appointments, Promotions, and Retirements
Deborah Middleton (AR) was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department
of Architecture. Deborah earned a PhD from Georgia Institute of Technology. She
has been the cultural consultant to a design team in Riyadh Saudi Arabia, as well as,
an advisor for planning pojects in Washington, D.C. and Canada. She has coauthored numerous articles and books.
Simon Bussiere (LA) was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of
Landscape Architecture. Simon earned a Master of Landscape Architecture
degree from Harvard‘s Graduate School of Design and was a project Landscape
Architect in AECOM‘s Australian offices. In 2005 Simon founded
NATIVESPACES: a laboratory for a range of design/build projects and was an
International Community Service Fellow at Harvard University in 2008.
Junfeng Jiao (UP) was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of
Urban Planning. Junfeng earned a PhD in Urban Design and Planning from the
University of Washington. He is a member of the American Collegiate Schools of
Planning, the International Association for China Planning, Transportation Research
Board, American Society of Civil Engineers, and Chinese Overseas Transportation
Association.
Chris Marlow (LA) was tenured this year based on his outstanding teaching and
service record. Mr. Marlow teaches much of the construction program and served
on national and University committees related to the undergraduate program. He
also chaired the undergraduate curriculum committee during the final accreditation
review. Mr. Marlow's research area is in the use of games as teaching tools in
landscape architecture. He has presented his work nationally and internationally in
peer-reviewed conferences and has published in one of the few academic peerreview journals in this unique aspect of education.
Visiting Faculty / Scholars
Michael Silver (AR) was appointed the inaugural Design Innovation Fellow in the
department of architecture for AY2011-12. During his visiting appointment, Silver
has delivered design studios focused on Composite Fiber technologies and robotic
applications in architecture. He has also developed extramural funding applications
in collaboration with other faculty members that are currently under review.
Harlow Landphair (LA) The faculty Fellow program in DoLA gives all students
access to expertise in the field of landscape architecture and facilitates a distinctive and
unique contributions to the field with student and faculty engagement. Dr. Landphair
engaged in a full complement of courses in the Construction sequence and in the Design
studios. Dr. Landphair is known nationally for his research in soils and storm water
processes related to transportation landscape and has built up a multi-million dollar
research facility in Texas. Outside of his teaching load, Dr. Landphair worked on
developing and delivering course material in advanced construction including a
construction elective in design with light and water.
Dr. Burcu Yigit Turan (LA) was hired from Turkey after completing her PhD in
landscape architectural theory from ETH in Vienna, Austria. She taught in the Research
Methods sequence and offered courses in contemporary Urban Landscape practices in
public space. While here, she has published two papers and attended four national
conferences presenting her work as a member of the Ball State faculty. Dr. YigitTuran's rigor as a European research scientist brings a fresh perspective to the graduate
program faculty and increased needed diversity in the department.
Barbara Hesslegrave, Administrative Coordinator for the
Department of Urban Planning, retired on January 6, 2012, after
26 years of service to Ball State University. Her retirement plans
include spending time with her mom in Florida and taking some
workshops.
Christine Rhine is the New Administrative Coordinator for the
Department of Urban Planning. Rhine joined the CAP family in
December 2011. She is a BSU telecommunications alumnus and has
previously worked in the Registrar‘s Office and in University
Marketing and Communications. She and her husband, Paul live in
Muncie with their two children, Andrew and Veronica.
GOAL 0
The College of Architecture and Planning will contribute to the distinctiveness of Ball State
University, and develop a unique identity among schools of architecture and planning.
-Building on our Strengths and preserving our Character
-Strategic Planning
A very important component of our college strategic plan came into place this year.
After several years of study, the Board of Trustees approved the establishment of a
college level student fee aimed at supporting further enhancement in all CAP academic
programs.
The college has developed an initial list of potential areas of enhancement where student
enhancement funds combined with regular university funding, and philanthropic
contributions, can have a substantial impact in the quality of the learning experience we
offer to our students. Following these lines we provide a list of such areas of
enhancement. During the 2012-13 academic year we will be conducting some pilot
implementation that will initially inform an open forum of faculty and students on how
we can best invest our enhancement funds.
Areas of Potential Enhancement (an open-ended list)
A. - Enhancement of the studio instructional model
A.1. - Graduate Assistantships
The studio instructional model depends greatly on peer-to-peer interaction.
Graduate assistantships provide the means to attract talented students that enhance
the quality of our studio peer-to-peer interaction. At the same time, graduate
assistant directly enhance the learning experience of the undergraduate students
they serve. Each department is called to identify the number of full or part-time
assistantships that best serves these two different forms of enhancement. These
graduate assistantships are additional to those provided by the office of the
Associate Provost for Research and Dean of the Graduate School, or through
contracts and grants.
A.2. - External Reviewers
In addition to peer-to-peer interaction and faculty instruction, the studio model
depends on the significance of feedback provided by external reviewers. On a
selective manner we need to be able to provide incentives that make possible the
sustained participation of external reviewers in our design and planning reviews.
These incentives may range in nature, from providing lunch before a 1:00PM
review, to the actual payment of stipends for high profile reviewers participating
in final review week events.
A.3. - Studio Documentation
One of the most difficult tasks of a studio instructor is to identify the potential of a
new student and to communicate his/her expectations of performance. Both tasks
are substantially enhanced by the availability of documentation on the work done
by the student in previous semesters and the work of more advanced students that
they need to meet during the new semester. This line of funding can promote the
development of individual student portfolios, studio project publications, on-line
archive of student work, and school studio productions. This line may also include
the funding of publications by key student associations/groups.
A.4. - Academic / Professional Interaction
The studio instructional model in academia is directly related with the model used
in the profession for delivering commercial services. Professional offices are also
organized around studios or studio-like environments. This expenditure line will
be directed towards the enhancement of opportunities for interaction between
academic and professional practice. Typical opportunities for doing so are
presented in the context of career fairs, internships, and the participation of our
students in national or international competitions addressing professional
competency.
A.4. - Design-Build / Fabrication Supplies and Equipment
The studio instructional model is at fundamental level a prototyping environment.
Drawings are a form of prototyping, but model-making (sometimes at full scale)
are also extremely important in the teaching/learning process. In many instances
the cost of prototyping materials has limited explorations that by definition
enhance the process. This line of expenditure can be used for funding explorations
that present higher risks or higher costs than usual and promote an enhanced
learn-by-doing environment in the studio, workshop, or construction site.
A.5. - Studio/Learning Environment
The studio environment is a non-conventional learning environment that requires
specialized spaces, layouts, furnishings, and equipment. It is recognized that
providing the kind of environment required for external accreditation of our
programs is a university general fund responsibility. We also recognize that
beyond such level of implementation there is substantial room for enhancement.
This expenditure line may provide funding for the further enhancement of our
studio environments.
B. - Enhancement of learning without borders
B.1. - Visiting Scholars
Due to our location, our students have limited exposure to specialized external
expertise. In some cases intellectual diversity can be introduced over short periods
of time (see 2.2 and 2.3), but in other cases when we are addressing build-up
instructional processes that go from basic awareness to ability to perform we need
to provide longer exposure to the source of enhancement. This line of expenditure
will be limited to specialized studios and courses in areas not currently covered by
our faculty.
B.2. - Visiting Lecturers
Visiting lectures will enhance the learning experience of our students by
providing intellectual diversity. Visiting lectures may be delivered in campus or
may be delivered through technology mediation. In most cases visiting lectures
will be targeted to specific classes or departments. College lectures, due to their
multidisciplinary perspective are addressed under line 3.2.
B.3. - Invited Workshops
Visiting workshops will enhance the learning experience of our students by
providing intellectual diversity beyond awareness and understanding
levels. Visiting workshops address the student‘s ability to perform and therefore
require a time structure that commonly exceeds the one provided for visiting
lectures. In most cases visiting workshops will be targeted to specific classes or
departments. College level workshops fall into the expenditure line of college
multidisciplinary projects in 3.1.
B.4. - Student Mobility
Our college is distinctive through its commitment to the implementation of outof-campus activities and programs. This line of expenditure will help enhance
student learning during field trips, field studies (typically associated to outreach
projects), and study abroad programs. In addition to direct enhancement of the
out-of-campus experience we will consider enhancing financial access to the
experience as a means of maintaining the benefits of peer-to-peer interaction that
our students enjoy in campus based activities.
C. - Enhancement of multidisciplinary integration
C.1.-Multidisciplinary Projects
In this expenditure line we include the funding of multidisciplinary projectcentered activities such as workshops and studios. Within this expenditure line
we seek the opportunity to enhance the learning experience of our students in
freshman studios (part of the CAP common First Year Program) and students in a
potential multidisciplinary capstone studio later in their undergraduate
programs. This expenditure line will also address opportunities for enhancement
funding for immersive learning projects.
C.2. - College Lectures
It is customary for design schools to maintain a rich program of visiting
lectures. Our current level of funding for such a program is extremely limited.
This line of expenditure will allow us to enhance our annual program of visiting
lectures and to publicize it accordingly.
C.3. - College Gallery Exhibits
It is customary for design schools to maintain a rich program of visiting
exhibits. Our current level of funding for such a program is extremely limited.
This line of expenditure will allow us to enhance our annual program of visiting
exhibits, produce our own exhibits, and to publicize it accordingly.
D. - Enhancement of the perpetual learner culture.
D.1. - Faculty & Students Symposium
The F&S Symposium combines many aspects of instructional enhancement. In
particular, our faculty gets to talk about their scholarship of teaching in front of
their students, and by doing so our students learn about how they are learning.
Every year we explain that we profess the philosophy of pedagogical transparency
as a form of learning enhancement. The F&S Symposium is instrumental in
putting our students in the driving seat of their learning process. This expenditure
line can help fund the participation of students in the symposium lunch and the
publication that documents both faculty and student contributions to the program
of the event.
D.2. - Alumni Symposium
The Alumni Symposium combines many aspects of instructional
enhancement. In particular, our alumni gets to present their scholarship of
application (mainly professional practice) in front of our students, and by doing so
our students learn more about current professional trends associated to their
disciplines. This expenditure line may be in intersection with expenditure for
visiting lectures (2.2), but beyond that it can also help fund the participation of
students in the symposium lunch and the publication that documents alumni
contributions to the program of the event.
E. - Enhancement of strategic opportunities and fiscal responsibility.
E.1. - Special Implementations
A number of peer institutions have implemented important lines of enhancement
based on the investment of substantial resources in seed implementations. If such
an implementation is identified we would like to encumber funds through several
years in order to jump-start such initiatives. This may be the case of large scale
design-build projects that are introduced to the market and in turn provide the
funding for the next implementation.
- College Leadership Council Retreat
The College Leadership Council conducted a retreat on July 13, July 20, and
August 12, 2011. During the summer of 2012 we will have retreats on June 13,
July 19, and August 15. Retreats afford the CLC the opportunity to discuss many
topics such as event planning, lecture series guests, faculty loading, and conflict
resolution.
Consistent with the objective of introducing a higher level of autonomy in master
planning at departmental level, all three departments have held faculty/staff
retreats where a wide variety of subjects have been addressed.
-Engaging our Alumni and Friends
Our alumni are involved is many areas of the public and private sector. We
always look forward to hearing about their accomplishments, as well as sharing
those of the CAP. Our annual publication of reCAP and E-CAP are produced to
share this type of information. The annual report is an additional avenue for
information sharing. ReCAP and the annual report can also be found online at
the CAP web page.
ReCAP layout.
Photo shows E-Cap header.
CAP Publications are available on the CAP website.
In addition to these publications available to alumni and others, the departments also design and
distribute publications in the form of e-Newsletters. For example, the Department of Landscape
Architecture published a quarterly newsletter on the website with a focus on alumni
accomplishments and competition information. Professor German Cruz developed the
newsletter. Emails were sent out to all alumni encouraging contributions of news and activities.
Over 35 student and alumni awards and recognition were included in the newsletters this year.
-Visits to Alumni and Alumni Events.
The Dean, Department Chairs, and the Development Director of CAP made a number of
individual visits to firms in Indiana. Collectively we also managed to attend all
professional national meetings associated to the disciplines they represent. In all key
professional meetings we participated in receptions were held which brought together
our alumni for updates on the department, college, and university.
As always, a large contingent of thirty students from the Department of Urban Planning
participated in this year‘s national conference of the American Planning Association
(APA) that took place in Los Angeles from April 13-17. Also following tradition we
held a dedicated reception at the National Convention of the American Institute of
Architects and celebrated an alumnus that has joined the AIA College of Fellows.
Invitation to the CAP Alumni event in D.C.
Over fifty CAP alumni gathered in Washington, D.C. for a reception held at SmithGroup JJR.
The Dean of CAP provided a presentation (CAP Updates)
A PowerPoint slideshow of alumni projects was displayed during the reception.
The Department of Urban Planning hosted the Indiana chapter of the American Planning
Association spring conference on May 11 at the Ball State Alumni Center. Urban
planners from around the state, most of who are graduates of the department‘s BUPD
and MURP programs attended. This is the second time that the department has hosted
the association on campus.
--CAP Alumni Symposium + Alumni Day 2011 (Annex #1)
Following on the success of our CAP Alumni Symposia in 2008, 2009, and 2010, on
October 28th, 2011, we welcomed back approximately 70 alumni. Charles Sappenfield,
our first college dean also joined us for the events.
President Gora and student Board of Trustee, Michael T. Miller, assisted with a
ceremonial ribbon cutting for the CNC Router enclosure.
Guillermo Vasquez de Velasco, President Jo Ann Gora, Board of Trustee Michael T. Miller, Charles M. Sappenfield,
Josh Vermillion, Dave Ferguson, Michel Mounayar, and Kyle Sechrest prepare to “cut the ribbon” on the CNC
Router enclosure.
A new interactive discussion format was introduced between alumni, faculty and
students. Craig Hartman, Bruce Race, and Larry Roan responded to questions from the
audience sent to the CAP Twitter account. Members of AIAS helped to moderate the
session. This student lead session was well received.
In the evening we recognized and celebrated accomplishments with our 2011 Alumni
Award winners. Brad T. Barker, AIA (BArch ‘81) was this year‘s Distinguished
Alumnus. Barker is an Executive Vice President and the Global Practice Leader for
RTKL‘s Health + Science Practice Group. He also serves on RTKL‘s Board of Directors.
Outstanding Achievement Awards were presented to Jeff C. Bone, AIA (BArch ‘87);
Cynthia A. Bowen, AICP, LEED AP (BUPD ‗96), Richard A. Fetz, AIA, ACHA (BArch
‗79), and Richard L. Moake, AIA, (BArch ‗72). Robert Koester was the recipient of the
Charles M. Sappenfield Award of Excellence.
Our donors were able to meet with their scholarship and competition student winners.
The students‘ hand-made thank you cards which were given to our supporters.
Back to the CAP
Craig Hartman and Charlie Sappenfield catch up during Alumni Symposium
Class of 1971
Class of 1971 on their 40th anniversary. Picture
recreated on a virtual set.
Formal publication of abstracts from the Alumni Symposium sessions.
-College Donors Recognition Dinner
During the evening of October 28 our donors and students gathered together to
celebrate. A continuing tradition at the CAP, we invite them to meet each other and
share the experience of donor and recipient. Student‘s design hand-made thank you
cards that our given to the donor of their scholarship.
Paul Desmond, Anthony
Costello, Carmen Costello
Wayne Estopinal, Brandon
Hoopingarner,
Anthony Pokorny, Libby
Burley, Guillermo Vasquez
de Velasco
CAP Students met their scholarship donors at the Alumni Award Banquet.
Student “Thank You Card” for their donor.
As of May 31, 2012 the CAP is pleased to report giving has increased this year. Part of
the increase is due to Brenda Davis, Director of Development and Corporate
Relations, securing event sponsorships from donors and companies. These types of
sponsorships help greatly to offset the costs of events held for students and faculty are
they are greatly appreciated.
Landscape Architecture Alumni support has come in the form of financial donations
through Foundation and Scholarship programs, more than doubling contributions from
previous years. This important Partnership continues to support programs for the
students, studios and department events. Gifts provide funding for various aspects of
department activities. In addition to being used to support Department activities, the
Foundation funds are used to support leadership, advancement and enhancement.
-Urban Planning Alumni Award
This year‘s Department of Urban Planning
Alumni Award was given to Adrian Scott
Fine. Adrian graduated from Ball State
University in 1992 with degrees in Urban
Planning and Development, Environmental
Design and Historic Preservation. He is
currently Director of Advocacy for the Los
Angeles Conservancy; the largest local,
nonprofit preservation organization in the
country. In this role he oversees the
organization‘s outreach, advocacy and
response on key preservation issues within
the greater Los Angeles area.
Adrian Scott Fine (right) with Department Chair,
Michael Burayidi.
-College Advisory Boards
The College Alumni Society Board of Directors met several times during the 11-12
academic year. Minutes of the meetings are available. With restructuring and increased
use of teleconferencing or videoconferencing (GoToMeeting) we significantly expanded
the membership beyond Indiana borders. This board extended term limits for urban
planning representatives so it creates a staggered term, a vice-president was elected, and a
new president has been appointed.
The following chart shows the current membership of this advisory group:
2011-12 CAP Alumni Board Membership
•M.J. Meneley, President
•John Marron, Vice President
•Catherine Baker
•Karen Courtney
•Craig Farnsworth
•Heather Graninger
•J.P. Hall
•Greg Jacoby
•Larry Roan
•Rose Scovel
•Karl Sonnenberg
•Dan Woodfin, Faculty
Additional Members (ex officio)
•Guillermo Vasquez de Velasco, Dean
•Michel Mounayar, Associate Dean
•Lori Pence, Assistant to the Dean
•Brenda Davis, Director of Corporate Relations & Development
-CAP Holiday Cards
Following on tradition, this year we have continued to remember our alumni (and help
them remember us), through our annual holiday card. The picture of the ―CAP Family‖ is
traditionally taken just before lunch the day of our Alumni Symposium. Students, Staff,
Faculty, and Alumni participate.
CAP 2012 Holiday card.
GOAL 1
The College of Architecture and Planning will promote academic excellence among
undergraduate and graduate students seeking a rigorous learning experience.
Objective
A. Attract, enroll, retain, and graduate a more selective and diverse student body.
-Undergraduate recruitment
A key component in our recruitment efforts is our CAP Summer Workshop for high
school seniors. In the summer of 2011 we had 41 participants. From that group 22 ended
up applying for admission and 17 were offered admission into our freshman class.
This year the term summer workshop was changed to DesignWorks to reflect more of
what the program entails. In addition, recruitment material was designed and
distributed. This material included posters for high school guidance counselors, flyers
for visiting students, an email sent to students, Facebook advertising and website
redesign; although not early enough to make a significant impact on 2012 attendance.
We look forward to seeing the results of this action in the summer of 2013 as we cycle
through an entire academic year of promotion.
Promotional poster design for DesignWorks.
Participants in the 2011 CAP Summer Camp for high school students.
This year we also wanted to begin focusing more recruitment time on our AEC and PreDeclare options. These options allow for upper-class students from other majors to
apply and be considered for admission to CAP. We held an evening recruitment event
with Honors College students. The promotion flyer is below. While not considered a
successful event due to attendance, the feeling is still there to develop this further using
other avenues and methods.
Brochure for Career Changers.
As a means to improve on the rate of acceptance of our admission offers, on March 24th,
2012, we hosted a CAP Open House event attended by more than 200 people. Many
students provided acceptance of our offer immediately following the event.
Brochure for WORKS IN PROGRESS visit for admitted CAP students.
Also, the Department of Urban Planning hosted thirty Summer Scholars at CAP in the
summer of 2011 to introduce high achieving minority students to the design professions.
Students received lectures on urban planning, architecture, and landscape architecture
and toured the building to acquaint them of the projects that students in the college have
been working on.
In the Department of Landscape Architecture, Instructor Cindy McHone piloted the
presentation of three slide PowerPoint presentations in local high-achieving high schools
and at the Indy Center with excellent response. The three-part series includes a general
description of excellence in the field of landscape architecture, best practices in the field
today and studying landscape architecture at Ball State. A recruitment/outreach team of
faculty and students is being assembled to work with University marketing on this
strategic task.
Once the freshman class joins the college, their first year curriculum offers them a
hands-on experience that keeps them engaged with the ideas of design and its universal
potential. The faculty of the CAP First Year Program is specially articulated to provide
the experience of some of our most senior faculty with the excitement of some of our
youngest faculty.
CAP common first year students “under” review.
-Graduate recruitment
The Master of Architecture Program implemented its second ―Best and Brightest‖
evening event. In that context, Josh Coggeshall, Coordinator of the Master of
Architecture Program, hosts high-achieving undergraduate architecture students and
explains the unique characteristics of the Master of Architecture Program. The event was
enhanced by the participation of Provost King. The ceremony took place at Kitselman
Center.
Michael Burayidi, Chair of the Department of Urban Planning, visited the School of
Policy and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University to meet with students and
advisors of the school and provide information about the Masters of Urban and Regional
Planning (MURP) program.
On March 21, for the second year in a row, the Department of Urban Planning invited
high-achieving students from the departments of Political Science, Geography,
Economics, Sociology, and Natural Resources and Environmental Management to an
Open House in which we provided information about our graduate program. The purpose
is to entice an interest in the MURP program and interest students to enroll in the
program.
A survey to ascertain the level of professional interest in an MLA degree and/or course
offering in Indy was conducted from the list serve maintained by Brad Beaubien of our
Indy Center. 72 people received the survey and between 30% and 80% responded
depending on the question. The outcome showed wide-ranging interest and as such was
inconclusive in terms of statistically significant preferences for a specific duration of
degree program. However, the respondents did indicate significant interest in specific
forms of delivery for graduate study in executive level course work that is compressed
into intensive hybrid distance learning as well as access to part-time course work taught
over the semester. The majority of the survey group would have been in the careerchange non-traditional student consumer group.
New electives for graduate students offered by this year‘s Faculty Fellow Dr. Harlow
Landphair included a well-defined advanced construction unit on transportation and
storm water design and a specialty course in design with light and water (electrical and
irrigation, pools and fountains).
Objective
B. Provide each undergraduate with the opportunity to participate in an immersive learning experience.
-Immersive Learning Opportunities
Our college continues to provide a wide variety of Immersive Learning opportunities for
our students and peers from other disciplines in our campus. In many instances such
experiences constitute the main corpus of courses and in other cases the experience is
encapsulated within courses that are in such a way enhanced. In the case of courses
related to our graduate programs the demographic composition of our student body is by
default multidisciplinary. The following list of experiences are subscribed to the concept
of Immersive Learning.
Department:
College:
Title of Project:
Faculty Mentor:
Number of Students Involved:
Course # in which Students Enrolled:
Number of Credits:
Disciplines of Participants:
Architecture
College of Architecture and Planning
Local Building Histories
Susan Lankford
8
PLAN 618 (course usually taught as ARCH 573)
2
Historic Preservation
Describe the tangible outcome:
Students researched the histories of several houses in Muncie’s Emily Kimborough and Old West
End historic districts. The houses are on Muncie’s list of houses that are “unsafe” and may be
demolished. The City of Muncie and Indiana Landmarks are working together to find new
owners for these buildings, with the hopes that the owners will rehabilitate the buildings. The
City and Indiana Landmarks will use the building histories to convey the historical significance of
these buildings to potential buyers.
Community partner:
City of Muncie and Indiana Landmarks
List the student learning outcomes.
Students gained experience documenting historic buildings and conducting primary research.
Students gained vital research skills that are necessary for successful preservation careers.
Department:
College:
Title of Project:
Faculty Mentor:
Number of Students Involved:
Course # in which Students Enrolled:
Number of Credits:
Disciplines of Participants:
Architecture
College of Architecture and Planning
National Register Nominations
Susan Lankford
8
ARCH 545
2
Historic Preservation
Describe the tangible outcome:
Students prepared nominations for the National Register of Historic Places for buildings in
Muncie, Indianapolis and Richmond. The nominations will help the City of Muncie, the City of
Richmond, and a private consulting firm in Indianapolis (Development Concepts, Inc.) place
several historic building on the National Register, which make these building eligible for certain
tax credits and federal grants.
Community partner:
City of Muncie, City of Richmond, and Development
Concepts Inc.
List the student learning outcomes.
Students gained experience documenting historic buildings and conducting primary research.
Describe how the experience helped students define a career path or make connections to a
profession or industry. Students gained vital research skills that are necessary for successful
preservation careers.
Department:
College:
Title of Project:
Faculty:
Number of Students Involved:
Course Number in Which Students Enrolled:
Number of Credits:
Disciplines of Participants:
Landscape Architecture
College of Architecture and Planning
Wild Kindergarten Studio
Jody Rosenblatt Naderi
11
LA498
4
Biology, Natural Resources, Early Education and
Landscape Architecture
Describe the tangible outcome or product:
Analysis of the features and issues related to establishing an outdoor kindergarten in Muncie.
The project resulted in behavioral and spatial research culminating in the design layout for an
acre and a half of property slated for development as an outdoor natural area. Design plans and
a technical research report produced individually and in teams represented the final output of
the study.
Community Partner:
Appletree Day Care Nursery
List the student learning outcomes.
a. be able to conduct and present a persuasive literature / case study review to advocate for
wild kindergartens in North America using a SWOT analysis
b. identify geometric features of children social space (requires IRB)
c. be able to analyze and present design implications of landscape attitudes carried in children's
literature and social media
d. be able to detect rooms and formulate archetypes in the woods and valleys of our region
using phenomenological methods
e. be able to design outdoor classrooms for preschool and kindergarten children based on
behavioral observations (requires IRB)
f. be able to conduct an honest SWOT analysis of a project's design efficacy
Department:
College:
Title of Project:
CBP/Urban Planning
Architecture and Planning
Imagine Madison
(downtown Redevelopment Study)
Faculty Mentor:
Scott Truex
Number of Students Involved:
Eight
Course Number in Which Students Enrolled: Plan 401/630
Number of Credits:
6/3
Disciplines of Participants:
Urban Planning
Describe the tangible outcome or product:
The Madison Team conducted the following:
 Fieldwork and community inventory that included building and land use inventory, field
photography and property owner interviews
 Community surveying at community festivals, farmer’s market and with business
owners
 Three day community charrette workshop with steering committee, invited community
groups, business owners and the general public
 Development of community engagement media via project website, Facebook and
twitter sites
 Development of presentation materials, include exhibit boards, tri-fold summary
document and finding report
 Extensive media coverage via local newspaper and radio
 Culmination into public presentation materials, social media materials, exhibit, report
document, executive summary document and website.
Community Partner:
City of Madison, Historic Madison, Inc. (numerous other
community groups participating in events)
List the student learning outcomes.
 Inventory and analysis of social, cultural and physical environments
 Community engagement techniques ranging from surveying, interviewing, meeting
development
 Information development and group dissemination in meetings and presentations
 Community engagement techniques via project website, Facebook and twitter sites
 Information management through the development of presentation materials, include
exhibit boards, tri-fold summary document and finding report
 Managing and external message through extensive media coverage via local newspaper
and radio
 Working in team – as a professional office
Describe how the experience helped students define a career path or make connections to a
profession or industry.
All outcomes (products and learning) directly applicable to professional of Urban Planning and
Development.
Project was conducted: Summer Term: May to August
Projects received External Funds: $ 15,600
Department:
College:
Title of Project:
Faculty Mentor:
Number of Students Involved:
Course Number in Which Students Enrolled:
Number of Credits:
Disciplines of Participants:
CBP/Urban Planning
Architecture and Planning
Imagine Griffith
(downtown Redevelopment Study)
Scott Truex
Eight
Plan 401/630
6/3
Urban Planning
Describe the tangible outcome or product:
The Griffith Team conducted the following:
 Fieldwork and community inventory that included building and land use inventory, field
photography and property owner interviews
 Community surveying at community festivals, farmer’s market and with business
owners
 Three day community charrette workshop with steering committee, invited community
groups, business owners and the general public
 Development of community engagement media via project website, Facebook and
twitter sites
 Development of presentation materials, include exhibit boards, tri-fold summary
document and finding report
 Extensive media coverage via local newspaper and radio
* Culmination into public presentation materials, social media materials, exhibit, report
document, executive summary document and website.
Community Partner:
Town of Griffith, Redevelopment Commission.
(numerous other community groups participating in events)
List the student learning outcomes.
 Inventory and analysis of social, cultural and physical environments
 Community engagement techniques ranging from surveying, interviewing, meeting
development
 Information development and group dissemination in meetings and presentations
 Community engagement techniques via project website, Facebook and twitter sites
 Information management through the development of presentation materials, include
exhibit boards, tri-fold summary document and finding report
 Managing and external message through extensive media coverage via local newspaper
and radio
 Working in team – as a professional office
Describe how the experience helped students define a career path or make connections to a
profession or industry.
All outcomes (products and learning) directly applicable to professional of Urban Planning and
Development
Project was conducted: Summer Term: May to August
Projects received External Funds: $ 12,600
Lauren Granieri working with community members in Griffith, Indiana.
Department:
College:
Title of Project:
Faculty Mentor:
Number of Students Involved:
Course Number in Which Students Enrolled:
Number of Credits:
Disciplines of Participants:
CBP/Urban Planning
Architecture and Planning
Imagine Griffith (Comprehensive Plan)
Scott Truex
Eight
Plan 401/630
6/3
Urban Planning
Describe the tangible outcome or product:
The Griffith Team conducted the following:
 Fieldwork and community inventory that included building and land use inventory, field
photography and property owner interviews
 Five community meetings and Presentations
 Community surveying at community with business owners and high school students
 Development of community engagement media via project website, Facebook and
twitter sites
 Development of presentation materials, include exhibit boards, and finding report
 Extensive media coverage via local newspaper and radio
* Culmination into public presentation materials, social media materials, exhibit, report
document, executive summary document and website.
Community Partner:
Town of Griffith - Community Steering
Committee (numerous other community groups participating)
List the student learning outcomes.
 Inventory and analysis of social, cultural and physical environments
 Community engagement techniques ranging from surveying, interviewing, meeting
development
 Information development and group dissemination in meetings and presentations
 Community engagement techniques via project website, Facebook and twitter sites
 Information management through the development of presentation materials, include
exhibit boards, tri-fold summary document and finding report
 Managing and external message through extensive media coverage via local newspaper
and radio
 Working in team – as a professional office
Describe how the experience helped students define a career path or make connections to a
profession or industry.
All outcomes (products and learning) directly applicable to professional of Urban Planning and
Development
Project was conducted: Fall Term: August - December
Projects received External Funds: $ 2,500
Department:
College:
Title of Project:
Faculty Mentor:
Number of Students Involved:
Course Number in Which Students Enrolled:
Number of Credits:
Disciplines of Participants:
CBP/Urban Planning
Architecture and Planning
Imagine Madison (Comprehensive Plan)
Scott Truex
Eight
Plan 401/630
6/3
Urban Planning
Describe the tangible outcome or product:
The Madison Team conducted the following:
 Fieldwork and community inventory that included building and land use inventory, field
photography and property owner interviews
 Five community meetings and Presentations
 Community surveying at community with business owners and high school students
 Development of community engagement media via project website, Facebook and
twitter sites
 Development of presentation materials, include exhibit boards, and finding report
 Extensive media coverage via local newspaper and radio
 Culmination into public presentation materials, social media materials, exhibit, report
document, executive summary document and website.
Community Partner:
City of Madison - Community Steering
Committee (numerous other community groups participating)
List the student learning outcomes.
 Inventory and analysis of social, cultural and physical environments
 Community engagement techniques ranging from surveying, interviewing, meeting
development
 Information development and group dissemination in meetings and presentations
 Community engagement techniques via project website, Facebook and twitter sites
 Information management through the development of presentation materials, include
exhibit boards, tri-fold summary document and finding report
 Managing and external message through extensive media coverage via local newspaper
and radio
 Working in team – as a professional office
Describe how the experience helped students define a career path or make connections to a
profession or industry.
All outcomes (products and learning) directly applicable to professional of Urban Planning and
Development
Project was conducted: Fall Term: August - December
Projects received External Funds: $ 4,500
Students working in the community of Madison, Indiana
Department:
College:
Title of Project:
CBP/Urban Planning
Architecture and Planning
Imagine Huntington (downtown
Redevelopment Study)
Scott Truex
Four
Plan 401/630
6/3
Urban Planning
Faculty Mentor:
Number of Students Involved:
Course Number in Which Students Enrolled:
Number of Credits:
Disciplines of Participant:
Describe the tangible outcome or product:
The Madison Team conducted the following:
 Fieldwork and community inventory that included building and land use inventory, field
photography and property owner interviews
 Community surveying at community festivals, farmer’s market and with business
owners
 Three day community charrette workshop with steering committee, invited community
groups, business owners and the general public
 Development of community engagement media via project website, Facebook and
twitter sites
 Development of presentation materials, include exhibit boards, tri-fold summary
document and finding report
 Extensive media coverage via local newspaper and radio
 Culmination into public presentation materials, social media materials, exhibit, report
document, executive summary document and website.
Community Partner:
City of Huntington, Huntington Downtown
Assn. (numerous other community groups participating in events)
List the student learning outcomes.
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Inventory and analysis of social, cultural and physical environments
Community engagement techniques ranging from surveying, interviewing, meeting
development
Information development and group dissemination in meetings and presentations
Community engagement techniques via project website, Facebook and twitter sites
Information management through the development of presentation materials, include
exhibit boards, tri-fold summary document and finding report
Managing and external message through extensive media coverage via local newspaper
and radio
Working in team – as a professional office
Describe how the experience helped students define a career path or make connections to a
profession or industry.
All outcomes (products and learning) directly applicable to professional of Urban Planning and
Development
Project was conducted: Summer Term: May to ongoing
Projects received External Funds: $ 22,000
Department:
College:
Title of Project:
Faculty Mentor:
Number of Students Involved:
Course Number in Which Students Enrolled:
Number of Credits:
Disciplines of Participants:
Landscape Architecture
CAP
Park(ing) Day
Joe Blalock
14 Grad students
LA605
4
Landscape Architecture
Describe the tangible outcome or product:
The event celebrated and was an outreach tool to foster open space in the Urban Environment;
was an outreach tool to describe waste and recycling; products were donated to Global Peace
Initiative, Inc. for their facilities.
Community Partner:
INDY COG
Ratio Architects/ Indiana Chapter of ASLA/
List the student learning outcomes.
Interdisciplinary Design experience with partners
Materials research and Fabrication experience
Advocacy as a professional skill
Describe how the experience helped students define a career path or make connections to a
profession or industry.
The experience aided students in creating a design experience that was fabricated and shared
with the world. Presented activism as a mode of practice.
Photos of the transformed parking spaces at E. Washington and S. Meridian Street, Indianapolis, IN.
Department:
College:
Title of Project:
Faculty Mentor:
Number of Students Involved:
Course Number in Which Students Enrolled:
Number of Credits:
Disciplines of Participants:
PLAN
College of Architecture & Planning
Whitely Neighborhood Action Plan
Lisa M. Dunaway, LEED AP and Meagan
Tuttle
26
PLAN 302
4
PLAN
Describe the tangible outcome or product:
The students in this studio created a Neighborhood Action Plan for the Whitely community,
which is located in the heart of Muncie. The Plan included initiatives for both physical and social
improvements for the neighborhood, which the client can use as a road map in the future. They
also created a “Citizens Workbook” that will help the residents of Whitely better understand
and use the Plan that was created for them.
Community Partner:
Whitely Community Council (WCC)
List the student learning outcomes.
The students learned how to create a neighborhood plan from the very beginning to the very
end. They discovered how to research the history of an area and how to analyze a community
through direct observation and analysis. The students held four public meetings with the WCC
to solicit feedback from the community members, which helped shaped their ideas for what
initiatives to recommend. The learned how to deal directly with a real client and create a Plan
that reflected the needs of the community.
Describe how the experience helped students define a career path or make connections to a
profession or industry.
This studio was run like a real consulting firm, where the students were delegated tasks and
given direct access to both their client and the residents of the community. They had to work
both individually and in groups to create a Plan that was realistic and tangible for Whitely.
Therefore, the creation of this Neighborhood Action Plan was truly an experience of how the
students will probably work as a real Urban Planner in a job someday.
Third year student Eddie Honea addresses the audience at the final WNAP public meeting.
Department:
College:
Title of Project:
Faculty Mentor:
Number of Students Involved:
Course Number in Which Students Enrolled:
Number of Credits:
Disciplines of Participants:
PLAN
College of Architecture & Planning
Indiana Interchurch Center Wildlife Habitat
Installation
Lisa M. Dunaway, LEED AP
34
PLAN 433/533
3
PLAN, LA, ARCH, NREM
Describe the tangible outcome or product:
The entire class worked together to design and install, a wildlife habitat which was certified by
the Indiana Wildlife Federation in early August 2011. The design included plants native to
Indiana, which provide excellent food and shelter sources for wildlife. The students also
produced a master plan for the IIC property to coordinate with the client’s other sustainable
projects such as building efficiency improvements and a solar panel demonstration installation.
A phasing plan outlined additional sustainable site improvements the IIC can undertake in the
future, such as a prairie planting, community garden, and contemplative garden, and also
provided a budget for those future improvements and suggested ways to fund them, such as
grants.
Community Partner:
Indiana Interchurch Center
List the student learning outcomes.
The students learned how to apply the principles of ecology and sustainability planning that they
learned during the course to a real site from concept to design to budgeting, and finally, to
installation. They also learned how to work with a real client which consisted of many diverse
stakeholders on a prominent property in Indianapolis. Finally, the students were exposed to
public relations strategies and learned how to work with the press to get coverage for their
work, not only to showcase their efforts but most especially to gain recognition for the client.
Describe how the experience helped students define a career path or make connections to a
profession or industry.
The students interacted with potential employers during this project from a diverse group of
organizations such as Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc. and the Indiana Wildlife Federation.
Through those organizations students discovered the types of jobs available to them in
industries related to but seemingly beyond their major. All students learned principles which
will help them be better informed about sustainability in whatever career path they choose.
Student site plan rendering
Department:
College:
Title of Project:
Faculty Mentor:
Number of Students Involved:
Course Number in Which Students Enrolled:
Number of Credits:
Disciplines of Participants:
URBAN PLANNING
CAP
SUSTAINABLE AFFORDABLE HOUSING
VERA ADAMS
15
PLAN 441/541
3
PLANNING UNDERGRAD AND GRAD,
ARCHITECTURE GRAD
Describe the tangible outcome or product: 16 HOURS PER STUDENT ON HABITAT FOR
HUMANITY BUILD SITE IN INDIANAPOLIS. PUBLICATION OF CASE STUDIES OF AFFORDABLE
HOUSING PROJECTS IN CENTRAL INDIANA PLANNED, DESIGNED OR DEVLEOPED BY BSU
PLANNING ALUMNI.
Community Partner:
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY,
INDIANAPOLIS
List the student learning outcomes.
 TO CREATE A CONNECTION WITH A FAMILY WHO LIVES IN AFFORDABLE HOME.
 TO GET DIRTY.
 TO HAVE FUN.
 TO LEARN BY DOING.
 TO FEEL GOOD ABOUT YOURSELF AND YOUR POTENTIAL TO DO GOOD.
 TO VISIT SITES, NEIGHBORHOODS THAT HAVE AFFORDABLE HOMES
 TO ANALYSE PRECEDENTS DEVELOPED BY BSU PLANNING ALUMNI IN CENTRAL INDIANA
 TO COLLOBORATE AND FUNCTION AS A TEAM
Describe how the experience helped students define a career path or make connections to a
profession or industry.
TO CREATE AFFORDABLE HOMES, A TEAM OF DEVELOPERS, ARCHITECTS, PLANNERS,
INVESTMENT ANALYSTS AND MANAGERS, BUSINESS LEADERS, VOLUNTEERS, COMMUNITY
GROUPS ARE NEEDED. STUDENTS GOT A GLIMPSE OF A $9 BILLION INDUSTRY IN THE USA THAT
THEY DID NOT KNOW EXIST, MET LEADERS IN THE INDUSTRY LOCALLY WHO CAME TO BSU –
MUNCIE TO SPEAK, WORKED WITH BSU PLANNING ALUMNI TO UNDERSTAND HOW REAL CASE
STUDY PROEJCTS IN CENTRAL INDIANA WERE ANALYSED, DESIGNED, FINANCED, BUILT AND
OPERATED.
Planning undergraduate student: Andrew Magee
Planning Instructor: Vera Adams
Department:
Architecture
College:
Architecture and Planning
Title of Project:
Preservation Plan
Faculty Mentor:
Cynthia Brubaker
Number of Students Involved:
10
Course Number in Which Students Enrolled:
AR 441/541
Number of Credits:
2.0
Disciplines of Participants:
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Historic Preservation
Describe the tangible outcome or product: Preservation Plan Supplement (Old West End
Historic District)
Community Partner:
Old West End Neighborhood Association
What was the problem the group was asked to solve? Several posed by the neighborhood
association that relate to revitalizing their neighborhood
List the student learning outcomes. Better understanding of the neighborhood—home
ownership & vacancy; providing good solutions—urban gardens, appropriate streetscapes &
infill design; communicating importance of historic resources to the neighborhood
Describe how the experience helped students define a career path or make connections to a
profession or industry. The experience provided direct interaction with residents of and
involvement in a neighborhood of historic resources with vacancy and foreclosures creating
challenges for its residents and jeopardizing its resources—a currently prevalent situation in
Rust Belt cities across the United States. Any MSHP graduate working in the preservation
profession in these geographic areas will encounter this issue.
Department:
College:
Title of Project:
Landscape Architecture
Architecture and Planning
Games & Play for Designers: Revealing
Landscape Architecture
Faculty Mentor:
Chris Marlow
Number of Students Involved:
15
Course Number in Which Students Enrolled:
LA 498A/598A
Number of Credits:
4
Disciplines of Participants:
5-Landscape Architecture, 3-Computer
Science, 3-Telecommunications, 1-Architecture, 1-Art & Animation, 1-Creative Writing, 1Entrepreneurship
Describe the tangible outcome or product:
Two unique video game prototypes were created – Green Space (multi-player, cooperative
game about brownfield remediation) and Storm Water Rampage (single-player, Flash game
about storm water management).
Community Partner:
The American Society of Landscape
Architects (Ron Leighton, VP for Education, Washington, DC)
What was the problem the group was asked to solve?
Each of two student teams were charged with designing a functional, educational, and fun video
game prototype that celebrated one or more unique aspects of the landscape architecture
profession. At least one game will be available via the ASLA website, and both will be used
during National Landscape Architecture Month and for general career discovery purposes. The
target audience includes upper elementary through high school aged kids.
List the student learning outcomes.
1. Identify the basic elements of a game and apply them in a game design process to
analyze, design, and create digital and non-digital/tabletop game prototypes.
2. Initiate and lead the design and development of at least one fundamental
element/aspect of a team-based video game design project.
3. Identify, access, learn, and employ resources necessary and appropriate for creating a
video game.
4. Identify multiple elements that make games fun, and incorporate one or more in the
design of a game.
5. Create a game design document for recording and communicating game design ideas
and process.
6. Describe how and why both playing and making games are good for learning.
Describe how the experience helped students define a career path or make connections to a
profession or industry.
Some students entered the class with hopes of someday designing games; they looked to this
course as a way to learn and create something that would help them hone their skills, confirm
their passions, and/or advance into that field or that way of thinking. Most students simply had
a passion for games and relevant skills/abilities that they wanted to apply in the creation of
something unique of their own; these people did not necessarily have intentions of pursuing a
career in gaming or game design. In all cases, the students learned much about landscape
architecture from their landscape architecture peers/teammates as they all immersed
themselves in basic topic investigation and the game design process. Without question, all
students learned something unique about each of the other disciplines represented in each
team.
Department:
College:
Title of Project:
Faculty Mentor:
Number of Students Involved:
Course Number in Which Students Enrolled:
Number of Credits:
Disciplines of Participants:
Urban Planning
Architecture and Planning
Urban Infill – College Avenue
Corridor – Meridian-Kessler
Neighborhood Plan
Vera Adams
25 undergrad, 1 undergrad TA
PLAN202
4
Urban Planning
Describe the tangible outcome or product:
1. 25 alternative site plans to illustrate future development options for transit corridor at
historic streetcar stops along College Avenue at 38th, 46th, 49th, 52nd, 54th and Kessler
Streets.
2. Student attendance at community meeting where planning issues were discussed and
their work was exhibited
3. Meetings with representatives from Department of Metropolitan Development and
Meridian-Kessler Neighborhood Association
Community Partner:
Meridian-Kessler Neighborhood Association
What was the problem the group was asked to solve? In preparation for development of formbased codes for Indianapolis, each neighborhood needs to develop a neighborhood plan
through a process of neighborhood discussions. The students facilitated neighborhood
discussion by illustrating alternatives for urban infill on vacant land along the areas “main
street”. The problem was a site planning problem in different locations along a corridor – plan
the land use, circulation for pedestrians, cars, bus riders, bicycles and layout residential, retail
and parking on small sites around important intersections.
List the student learning outcomes.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
To practice and develop effective site planning process.
To understand the urban context and its pattern of lot, block and district/neighborhood
To practice team work and collaboration
To develop basic concepts, basic skills and confidence in preparing site plans
To understand the impact of access (transportation/parking) on a neighborhood
Describe how the experience helped students define a career path or make connections to a
profession or industry. Students saw planning in action and how their work informed the
discussion. They met professionals and neighborhood representatives. They liked what they
saw. They saw how information can impact a discussion of what to do on specific sites and in a
neighborhood in general. They witnessed the process. Most were quite fascinated and saw how
what they did had an impact. That is powerful learning to a 19 year old student planner
Department:
College:
Title of Project:
Faculty Mentor:
Number of Students Involved:
Course Number in Which Students Enrolled:
Number of Credits:
Disciplines of Participants:
Architecture
CAP
Lennox Alstonville Surf Life Saving
Club
Joe Bilello
8
AR 402
6
Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Describe the tangible outcome or product: remodeling design for a 1980 surf club that has
fallen into disrepair
Community Partner:
Lennox Alstonville Surf Life Saving Club leadership, Brian Dell, director
What was the problem the group was asked to solve? How to take an old surf club that was
initially designed as a temporary building to be moved away
List the student learning outcomes.
How to work with communities in the design revisions to their facilities. How to create design
proposals with hand drawings scanned into electronic formats. How to work at sites remote
from offices or studio venues that have equipment. How to work with people of a different
culture with differing values.
Describe how the experience helped students define a career path or make connections to a
profession or industry.
The experience enabled students to work on a real problem on one of this community’s most
important structures and it’s largest. They met with the client, prepared designs, presented the
designs to the board of directors in an evening design review, got the community leaders’
feedback, revised their designs and provided the community leadership with electronic and
paper documents with which the community leaders are now pursuing funding to execute the
project in the spirit of the proposed design
Department:
College:
Title of Project:
Faculty Mentor:
Number of Students Involved:
Course Number in Which Students Enrolled:
Number of Credits:
Disciplines of Participants:
Architecture
College of Architecture & Planning
Preservation Field Experience
San Jacinto Corner Store Project
David Kroll
7
ARCH 598
3
MSHP program
Describe the tangible outcome or product:
The focus for the 2012 class was once again developed in response to current local preservation
activities. Last December, the Galveston Historical Foundation (GHF) announced a project
partnering with the Galveston Redevelopment and Community Enterprise Corporation (GRACE)
to acquire and restore homes to be offered for sale to low and moderate income families. In
this unique collaboration, GHF and GRACE combined their initiatives of identifying
neighborhoods in need of protection, and acquiring and restoring historic properties. GHF will
coordinate and supervise the restoration of the houses located at 1404 and 1406 Avenue L
applying energy conservation measures similar to the Green Revival House project completed in
2010. Upon completion, the houses will be offered for sale to prospective homeowners through
a program administered by GRACE.
Historically, the two-story house at 1404 Avenue L featured a grocery store on the first floor
with the owners/operators living upstairs. The building is a representative example of a “corner
store”, once so prevalent throughout Galveston’s residential neighborhoods. Hoping to
continue the momentum started by the GHF/GRACE project, this year’s Preservation Field
Experience class developed recommendations for the rehabilitation of several other former
corner store buildings located around the 14th Street and Avenue L site in the San Jacinto
neighborhood.
In addition, the class identified small-scale, heritage-based business
opportunities that could be located within the rehabilitated buildings.
The first half of the semester consisted of research, case studies and field trips within Indiana.
Over Spring Break, the class traveled to Galveston to survey, research and analyze areas
surrounding the corner of 14th Street and Avenue L in the San Jacinto neighborhood in order to
assist with the development of a 24/7 neighborhood revitalization plan that GHF calls “Project
Evergreen.” The second half of the semester was devoted to the development of a report
intended to assist the San Jacinto Neighborhood Association, the Galveston Historical
Foundation and the City of Galveston with the preservation and revitalization of corner store
resources in this important historic neighborhood.
Community Partner:
Association, Galveston, TX
Galveston Historical Foundation and San Jacinto Neighborhood
What was the problem the group was asked to solve? This year’s Preservation Field Experience
class developed recommendations for the rehabilitation of several other former corner store
buildings located around the 14th Street and Avenue L site in the San Jacinto neighborhood of
Galveston, Texas. In addition, the class identified small-scale, heritage-based business
opportunities that could be located within the rehabilitated buildings.
List the student learning outcomes: The course objectives for this year’s class were:
1. To develop skills to document historic buildings and structures and to identify and
assess rehabilitation treatments necessary to accommodate new uses.
2. To develop skills to create guidelines for the design and construction of compatible new
buildings and structures located within an historic neighborhood.
3. To develop skills to assist with the retention and expansion of businesses to create a
diverse economic base that responds to the needs to the neighborhood and community
consumers.
4. To complete a report for use by the San Jacinto Neighborhood Association, the
Galveston Historical Foundation and the City of Galveston.
Describe how the experience helped students define a career path or make connections to a
profession or industry:
Following a pilot project in 2004, the syllabus for a semester-long course entitled “Preservation
Field Experience” was developed. In 2005, the class focused on the theories and methods for
conducting condition assessments and reuse studies on historic buildings. The Hendley Building,
a historically significant but underutilized structure located in Galveston’s Strand Historic
District, was selected as the subject property. In 2006, the class developed written and graphic
recommendations for new infill construction design guidelines for the Old Central and San
Jacinto neighborhoods of Galveston. In 2007, the class completed a condition assessment and
reuse study on the feasibility of rehabilitating the Star State Company No. 3, one of Galveston’s
oldest neighborhood fire stations. In 2008, the class focused on cultural heritage tourism
opportunities within Galveston to assist with the promotion of its historical resources through
an improved system of marketing, gateways, way finding, and interpretation. In 2009, the class
developed disaster management plans for a variety of historic property types in order to
minimize the loss of significant character-defining features and materials and to enhance the
capability to recover expediently and successfully. In 2010, the course focused on sustainable
design practices and efforts in conjunction with preservation as the class developed a
rehabilitation plan for the Commissary House, moved from 12th Street to Sealy Avenue. In 2011,
acknowledging the nationwide decline in attendance and funding for historic house museums,
the class looked at alternative uses for Ashton Villa, the oldest mansion on Broadway.
The class provides a special educational and professional experience in one of the most historic
communities in the country and exposes the students to the work of the foundation, one of the
nation’s top local non-profit organizations.
Department:
College:
Title of Project:
Faculty Mentor:
Number of Students Involved:
Course Number in Which Students Enrolled:
Number of Credits:
Disciplines of Participants:
Architecture
College of Architecture and Planning
urbaRn
Associate Professor Timothy Gray
14
ARCH 402
6
Architecture
Describe the tangible outcome or product:
The students designed and fabricated facilities for an Urban Farm in Indianapolis. The farm is
planned for a remediated, brown-field site along the Monon trail (at 22nd Street) and will be
used by the Project School, an Indianapolis charter school focused on project based learning.
The student team worked with community partners including Kerimeda (land reclamation),
Gardens of Growth (landscape) as well as the faculty and students from the Project School to
design and realize this very ambitious project. Industrial shipping containers were modified at
the Heath Farm in Muncie and shipped to the site in Indianapolis
Community Partner:
the Project School, Indianapolis
What was the problem the group was asked to solve?
To provide workshop / meeting classroom facilities for a planned Urban Garden. The facilities
were to demonstrate principals of sustainable design.
List the student learning outcomes.
The students came to understand the implications of design decisions at full scale.
The students learned valuable construction skills
Students learned to manage a budget and schedule
Describe how the experience helped students define a career path or make connections to a
profession or industry.
The hands on project required students to collaborate within the group as well as with a variety
of project partners; required student teams to manage budget and schedule for the project.
The students gained an understanding of principals of sustainable design and put these
principals to use in an important community outreach project. All of these lessons are directly
applicable to experiences the students will have as graduates within the profession. Community
outreach, sustainable development, fabrication skills, grade school education are all lessons
from this experience that may impact student participant’s career trajectory.
Left to right: Dave Smith, Jordan Inman, Meredith Nash, Mallory Barga, Adam McGuire, Chris Baile, Katie Werner,
Hank Mezza, Nicole Miller, Rachel Shettle, Whitney Warner, Tim Gray
Department:
College:
Title of Project:
Faculty Mentor:
Number of Students Involved:
Course # in Which Students Enrolled:
Number of Credits:
Disciplines of Participants:
Architecture
College of Architecture and Planning
SOLAR DECATHLON 2013
Michele Chiuini
10 ARCHITECTURE; 20 at BSU
ARCH 402
6 (ARCH 402)
Architecture; Interior Design; Construction
Management; Engineering
Describe the tangible outcome:
A house design for the 2013 Solar Decathlon competition. The Solar Decathlon requires the
team of students to design, build, and operate a solar-powered house that is cost-effective,
energy-efficient and attractive. The house will be built in the University of Louisville and BSU
campuses and transported to the competition site in Irvine, CA. After the competition, the
house will be donated to a charity.
Community partner:
U.S. Department of Energy
List the student learning outcomes:
To design, build and operate a solar-powered house that is cost-effective, energy-efficient and
attractive. Solar house design; high energy efficient building design; use and management of
computer-aided design for building information modeling (BIM); interdisciplinary team work;
leadership skills. Students work with faculty mentors and professional advisors from different
disciplines. Joint design sessions have been held at BSU and U of Louisville with engineering
students. Students continuing with this project will have the opportunity to work with
professionals from companies sponsoring the competition.
CAP students in Washington, D.C. researching the 2011 Solar Decathlon competition
Department:
College:
Title of Project:
Faculty Mentor:
Number of Students Involved:
Course Number in Which Students Enrolled:
Number of Credits:
Disciplines of Participants:
Architecture
CAP
Benchmarking the Architecture
Building
Walter Grondzik
16
ARCH 633
3
Architecture
Describe the tangible outcome or product: A series of reports describing the environment
impact of the Architecture Building (with respect to energy use, water use, embodied energy,
waste production, and commuting energy). The data collected (via instrumentation, utility
meters, experiments, surveys, and analysis) provide initial benchmarks for the performance of
the Architecture Building. Such benchmarking is essential to understanding “how we’re doing” –
and yet is rarely done and even more rarely published.
Community Partner:
The CAP Sustainability Committee.
What was the problem the group was asked to solve? What is the environmental impact of the
Architecture Building?
List the student learning outcomes. A better understanding of building environmental impacts;
an understanding of how day-by-day activities affect long-term resource use; immersion into
real-world data collection and analysis; improved data presentation skills.
Describe how the experience helped students define a career path or make connections to a
profession or industry. This study was typical of what would be done in practice to establish a
baseline for greening of an existing building. Existing buildings are the majority of the building
stock – and greening is increasingly extending to these buildings. The experience on this project
also qualifies the students to sit for the LEED Green Associate accreditation exam.
Department:
College:
Title of Project:
Landscape Architecture
CAP
John M. Craddock Wetland Nature
Preserve Learning Center/Pavilion
Faculty Mentor:
Les Smith
Number of Students Involved:
29
Course Number in Which Students Enrolled:
LA 301 & LA 598
Number of Credits:
3 cr. hr.
Disciplines of Participants:
Landscape Architecture; Architecture;
Urban Planning; Construction Management; Natural Resources & Environmental Management
Describe the tangible outcome or product:
The semester-long real-client project is the ‘capstone’ element of a now-four-year initiative to
provide access to and within a 27-acre grey-field reclamation site - now transitioning into an
urban nature preserve and environmental education facility. This ‘capstone’ piece is completing
the master plan by providing a learning pavilion/overlook platform/amphitheater plaza set upon
a promontory availing a panorama of the entire wetland site. It will be the ‘icon’ and identitymaking piece for the John M. Craddock Wetland Preserve. This facility/structure will be the most
unique construct on the site, facilitating and enabling a broad array of K-12 environmental
education and environmental research programming for years to come.
The pavilion structure, while providing all of its functional purposes to support group
environmental learning and research staging, also showcases and demonstrates a variety of
sustainable design elements. These enhancements include: green roof portions; vertical green
wall sections; tensile suspended structure to minimize ground disturbance; and “gallery” spaces
hosting self-guided environmental interpretation/education.
In order to elevate the students’ immersive learning design and construction processes and
outcomes to the most ‘heightened’ state possible, the course required and was awarded funds
(Provost’s Immersive Learning Grant) that supplemented the clients’ base-construction funds.
Community Partner: Ball Brother’s Foundation; Delaware County Soil and Water Conservation
District; John M. Craddock Wetland nature Preserve Steering Committee
What was the problem the group was asked to solve? Develop designs for and construct an
iconic, structurally complex and architecturally expressive open-air environmental learning
center/pavilion.
List the student learning outcomes.
This immersive learning process and project contributed substantially to heightened outcomes,
ensuring and availing the students and the project access to and mentoring by consultancy from
practitioner experts (external to the university), including:
1) Students learned to work in teams and with engineering and construction experts/expertise
early and throughout an entire design process: a structural engineer and construction
professionals, with known innovative project work, helped the students evolve and fulfill the
concept, design development and engineering/detailing for the pavilion (suspension/tension)
platforms & canopies (see concept drawings);
2) Students learned to work in teams and with an ecological restoration specialist:
3) Students learned to work in teams and with an environmental interpretation/education
professional: to refine the structural design in ways that provided interpretive information and
interpretic0ve art and graphic applications to assist the educational programming, hosted by the
pavilion and its immediate
4) Students learned to evolve a design to buildable resolution through a series of models
(physical and digital) that allowed each step of the design to be tested, ands assessed for
function, structural integrity, build-ability and aesthetic performance – perfecting the design and
producing the final design outcomes that guided the full scale built-work results.
6) Students learned to ‘build’ (hands on) at the pavilion site, employing special construction
principles and procedures, using special tools and technologically-unique materials required for
the structure and its sustainable design purposes.
Describe how the experience helped students define a career path or make connections to a
profession or industry.
Student participants are being completely submerged in decision making relationships with
civil/structural engineers, construction professionals, site restoration ecologists, environmental
education/on- site interpretive experts and the client committee team. This professional
network between students and professionals – also working as a team with collective objectives
and expected outcomes, has placed the student participants right in the middle of their realcareer environment and interdisciplinary team-work settings.
Work continues at the John M. Craddock Wetland Nature Preserve.
Department:
College:
Title of Project:
Faculty Mentor:
Number of Students Involved:
Course Number in Which Students Enrolled:
Number of Credits:
Disciplines of Participants:
Urban Design
CAP
MAD AVE: Transit as a Design
Catalyst
Bruce Race
8
Multiple course - depending on
semester
30 (over three semesters)
Master of Urban Design
Describe the tangible outcome or product:
The students will be exploring key concepts on the corridor, including neighborhood
revitalization, mixed-use and transit-oriented development, streetscape enhancement,
integration of a potential commuter rail system, pedestrian, bicycle, and open space
networks, brownfield redevelopment, and water quality and sustainability issues.
Community Partner:
Indianapolis
City of South Port, City of
What was the problem the group was asked to solve? Potential impact of proposed
commuter rail system.
List the student learning outcomes.
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mixed-use and transit-oriented development
streetscape enhancement
integration of a potential commuter rail system, pedestrian, bicycle, and open
space networks
brownfield redevelopment
water quality and sustainability issues
Describe how the experience helped students define a career path or make connections to
a profession or industry. Students held three community meetings to gather feedback and
foster discussion regarding the project. They worked alongside professionals in the field
and gained real-world experience.
Updates can be viewed at http://southmadisonindy.org/.
BSU MUD students present transit and land use alternatives to community leaders
Department:
College:
Title of Project:
Faculty Mentor:
Number of Students Involved:
Course Number in Which Students Enrolled:
Number of Credits:
Disciplines of Participants:
Urban Planning
CAP
Aquaphonics
Bruce Frankel
5
PLAN 303
4
Primarily urban planning.
Describe the tangible outcome or product: A redevelopment proposal for the former General
Motors Corp. factory site on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Anderson, Indiana. There was a
presentation before local public officials and the site owner in Anderson with approximately 40
in attendance. Group received praise from all and indication of interest to explore the
redevelopment plan as presented.
Community Partner:
throughout.
Conferred with stakeholders
What was the problem the group was asked to solve? Studio in Economic & Real Estate
Development is methods-oriented. Students are free to select sites and projects, and then
must defend findings and recommendations.
List the student learning outcomes. A long list of methods and how to select appropriate
projects to fill the strategic needs of local economies, test their feasibility and impacts, and
present a cogent case on the same.
Describe how the experience helped students define a career path or make connections to a
profession or industry. Several students indicated that they now wanted a career in economic
development, and had confidence in the analytical side of planning. Several students indicated
they will enroll in the Real Estate Development minor program and participate in the NAIOP
Real Estate Challenge, an annual intercollegiate event staged in January-March, 2013.
Department: Landscape Architecture
College: College of Architecture and Planning
Title of Project: Restorative Urbanism: former GM facility as a new urban gateway to
Indianapolis
Faculty Mentor: Simon Bussiere and Jody Rosenblatt- Naderi with guest critics Eric Ernstberger
of REA, Tom Gallagher of RATIO and Larry Roan of BDMD (all BLA alumni)
Number of Students Involved: 32
Course Number in Which Students Enrolled: LA 403
Number of Credits: 4
Disciplines of Participants: Landscape Architecture and Urban Design
Describe the tangible outcome or product: A range of redevelopment (masterplan and
detailed) proposals were produced for the former General Motors Stamping Plant in
Indianapolis, Indiana.
Community Partner: Beth Gibson, Community Building Coordinator, 317-638-9432 x 4
Beth@westindydev.org - facilitated by Brad Beaubien of CAP:IC
What was the problem the group was asked to solve: Students were asked to imagine and
communicate what the 101 acre GM plant (and surrounding context) could and should be for
the future of the area’s growing urbanism (expecting growth of approx. 40,000 population
growth in the next 40 years) for both the community of West Indianapolis and the larger
Indianapolis area. Students had a multiheaded challenge. They needed to provide housing,
places of employment and dynamic urban conditions suitable for Indianapolis while balancing
ecological and economic impacts. The projects were required to be framed around an entirely
car-free productive public realm.
List the student learning outcomes.
1. Increase information gathering, analysis and critical thinking proficiency. Students
will be able to identify the most appropriate resources that are pertinent to their
design concern/intent and will have the ability to demonstrate their findings
through pragmatic concept development processes, principles and design
conclusions.
2. Develop systems based approaches to complex design challenges through
meaningful form making. Students will demonstrate the ability to construct, test
and analyze layered responses to design challenges through the construction
detailed diagrams. Students will be able to identify the functional elements that are
most germane to their design development and will develop 3-5 formal site (plan)
iterations per project with 1 final edited solution composed of significant findings
from previous testing.
3. Sharpen presentation and graphic communication styles/methods. Students will
utilize and demonstrate their ability to objectively listen, analyze and effectively
respond to arguments and/or critiques regarding their communicated design
intentions. Through studio pin-up’s, desk critiques, and mid-semester reviews,
students will encapsulate criticism/design-observations to successfully deploy and
defend their design decisions in a final review presentation.
4. Gained experience with project programming. Students will be able to articulate the
role of programmatic diagramming related to spatial relationships in the landscape.
Students will gain the ability to generate and test design solutions based on distinct
programmatic opportunities/constraints.
5. Designed in three dimensions through analog and digital means. As the result of
producing physical and digital scale models as a basis for other means of
representation including plans, sections and exploded diagrams, students will be
able to effectively communicate their design intentions in 3-5 distinct modes of
project delivery.
Describe how the experience helped students define a career path or make connections to a
profession or industry. Through a professional practice based environment, this project tested
the 5th year BLA student’s growing knowledge of landscape architecture and urban design
applications in adapting brownfield sites for new urban uses. A challenge many future practicing
Landscape Architects and Urban Designers will face in their career. Working with our three guest
critics (Eric Ernstberger, Tom Gallagher and Larry Roan) the students were exposed to a range of
experienced perspectives in not only local expertise but in terms of future driven public realm
design. This project reinforced the critical nature of landscape architecture practice in the future
of rust-belt cities like Indianapolis.
Project Title
Project
Director
Complete
Streets
Eric Kelly
Preservation
Field
Experience –
San Jacinto
Corner Store
Project
Preservation
Plan
Games & Play
for Designers:
Revealing
Landscape
Architecture
David Kroll
Immersive Learning Summary
Client
City
County
#
Stude
nts
Muncie-Delaware County
Metropolitan Planning Commission,
City of Muncie Community
Development Department and City
of Muncie Public Works
Department joined; Indiana
Department of Health provided
technical support
Galveston Historical Foundation
and San Jacinto Neighborhood
Association, Galveston, TX
Muncie
Delaware
80
Galveston
Galvesto
n
7
Cynthia
Brubaker
Chris
Marlow
Old West End Neighborhood
Association
The American Society of Landscape
Architects (Ron Leighton, VP for
Education, Washington, DC)
Muncie
Delaware
10
Muncie
Delaware
15
Urban Infill –
College
Avenue
Corridor –
MeridianKessler
Neighborhood
Plan
Lennox
Alstonville
Surf Life
Saving Club
urbaRn
Vera Adams
Meridian-Kessler Neighborhood
Association
Indianapolis
Marion
26
Joe Bilello
Lennox Alstonville Surf Life Saving
Club leadership, Brian Dell, director
Australia
Internati
onal
8
Timothy
Gray
the Project School, Indianapolis
Indianapolis
Marion
14
SOLAR
DECATHLON
MICHELE
CHIUINI
U.S. Department of Energy
Washington
,D.C.
Washingt
on and
10
2013
Benchmarking
the
Architecture
Building
Walter
Grondzik
The CAP Sustainability Committee
Muncie
MAD AVE:
Transit as a
Design
Catalyst
Local Building
Histories
National
Register
Nominations
Wild
Kindergarten
Studio
Imagine
Madison
(May-August)
Imagine
Madison
(AugustDecember)
Imagine
Griffith
(May-August)
Imagine
Griffith
(AugustDecember)
Imagine
Huntington
(May –
ongoing)
Park(ing) Day
Bruce Race
The City of South Port and The City
of Indianapolis
South
Port and
Whitely
Neighborhood
Action Plan
Lisa M.
Dunaway &
Megan
Tuttle
Lisa M.
Indiana
Alexandr
ia
Delaware
16
Marion
8
Indianapolis
Susan
Lankford
Susan
Lankford
City of Muncie and Indiana
Landmarks
City of Muncie, City of Richmond,
City of Indianapolis and
Development Concepts
Appletree Day Care Nursery
Muncie
Delaware
8
Muncie,
8
Muncie
Delaware
, Marion,
Wayne
Delaware
City of Madison, Historic Madison,
Inc.
Madison
Jefferson
8
Scott Truex
City of Madison, Historic Madison,
Inc.
Madison
Jefferson
8
Scott Truex
Town of Griffith, Redevelopment
Commission
Griffith
Lake
8
Scott
Truex
Town of Griffith, Redevelopment
Commission
Griffith
Lake
8
Scott
Truex
City of Huntington, Huntington
Downtown Assn.
Huntington
Huntingt
on
4
Joe Blalock
Ratio Architects, Indiana Chapter of
ASLA, INDY COG
Whitely Community Council
(WCC)
Indianapolis
Marion
14
Muncie
Delaware
26
Indiana Interchurch Center
Indianapolis
Marion
34
Jody
Rosenblatt
Naderi
Scott Truex
Richmond,
Indianapolis
11
Interchurch
Center Wildlife
Habitat
Installation
Sustainable
Affordable
Housing
Dunaway
Vera Adams
John M.
Les Smith
Craddock
Wetland
Nature
Preserve
Learning
Center/Pavilio
n
Aquaphonics Bruce
Frankel
Restorative
Simon
Urbanisn:
Bussiere,
former GM
Jody
facility as a
Rosenblattnew urban
Naderi,
gateway to
Eric
Indianapolis
Ernstberger
,Tom
Gallagher,
and Larry
Roan
Habitat for Humanity
Indianapolis
Marion
15
Ball Brother‘s Foundation,
Delaware County Soil and Water
Conservation District,
Muncie
Delaware
29
Madison County
Madison
Madison
5
Beth Gibson, Community Building
Coordinator – facilitated by Brad
Beaubien
Indianap
olis
Marion
32
C
Objective
. Increase the number and quality of significant in- and out-of-classroom learning opportunities such
as experiential learning, international learning experiences, and service learning.
-Service Learning
Our college continues to provide a wide variety of Experiential and Service Learning
opportunities for our students and peers from other disciplines in our campus. In many
instances such experiences constitute the main corpus of courses and in other cases the
experience is encapsulated within courses that are in such a way enhanced. Also, our
college has a strong vocation towards voluntarism and that vocation is evident by the
participation of students in non-credit learning activities that at the same time provide
valuable services to our community. That particular attitude continues to be prevalent
among our alumni who deliver substantial amounts of pro bono work following that same
vocation. The following list of experiences are subscribed to the concept of Service
Learning.
Department:
College:
Title of Project:
Center for Historic Preservation
College of Architecture and Planning
Publication of the Interim Report for the Warren
County Historic Resource Survey
Faculty Mentor:
Susan Lankford
Number of Students Involved:
1
Course #r in Which Students Enrolled: N/A
Number of Credits:
N/A
Disciplines of Participants:
Historic Preservation
Describe the tangible outcome:
The final product will be Indiana Sites and Structures Inventory: Warren County Interim
Report. The report will list the results of a historic resource survey conducted by the Center
for Historic Preservation during the previous year. Survey results will be used as a
preservation planning tool, for cultural heritage tourism efforts, and to encourage local
history education efforts.
Community partner:
Indiana Landmarks and the Indiana Division of
Historic Preservation and Archaeology
List the student learning outcomes:
The student learned how to evaluate, document, photograph, and research the histories of
historic sites and structures, skills that are vital to professionals in the field of historic
preservation. The student also learned the skills needed to make maps from GIS database and
the desktop publishing skills needed to publish such a report. The students connected with
community and preservation leaders in Warren County and with Indiana Landmarks, Indiana’s
leading non-profit organization that promotes historic preservation. The student also gained
important skills that are very attractive to potential employers in the field of historic
preservation.
Department:
College:
Title of Project:
Center for Historic Preservation
College of Architecture and Planning
Publication of the Interim Report for the
Bartholomew County Historic
Faculty Mentor:
Susan Lankford
Number of Students Involved:
1
Course Number in Which Students Enrolled:
N/A
Number of Credits:
N/A
Disciplines of Participants:
Historic Preservation
Describe the tangible outcome or product:
The final product will be Indiana Sites and Structures Inventory: Bartholomew County Interim
Report. The report will list the results of a historic resource survey conducted by the Center
for Historic Preservation during the previous year. Survey results will be used as a
preservation planning tool, for cultural heritage tourism efforts, and to encourage local
history education efforts.
Community Partner:
Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology
Indiana Landmarks and the Indiana
List the student learning outcomes. The student learned how to evaluate, document,
photograph, and research the histories of historic sites and structures, skills that are vital to
professionals in the field of historic preservation. The student also learned the skills needed to
make maps from GIS database and the desktop publishing skills needed to publish such a
report.
Describe how the experience helped students define a career path or make connections to a
profession or industry. The students connected with community and preservation leaders in
Bartholomew County and with Indiana Landmarks, Indiana’s leading non-profit organization
that promotes historic preservation. The student also gained important skills that are very
attractive to potential employers in the field of historic preservation.
Department:
College:
Title of Project:
Faculty Mentor:
Number of Students Involved:
Course Number in Which Students Enrolled:
Number of Credits:
Disciplines of Participants:
Center for Historic Preservation
College of Architecture and Planning
“Heritage Day”
Susan Lankford
4
N/A
N/A
Historic Preservation
Describe the tangible outcome or product:
The entire CHP staff and one student presented educational programming at the 3rd annual
“Heritage Day” at the Indiana State Fair. Visitors to CHP’s booth learned about Indiana’s
history, the value of heritage, and information about the preservation movement. Children
received coloring sheets and played a bean toss game that introduced them to Indiana’s
historic architecture.
Community Partner:
Indiana State Fair
List the student learning outcomes. The student became a teacher as she educated the public
about the importance of the built environment.
Describe how the experience helped students define a career path or make connections to a
profession or industry. In their historic preservation careers, graduates must learn how to
relate to persons of all different ages, backgrounds, ethnicities, income levels, and educations
levels. Because of the variety of people who attend the Indiana State Fair, Heritage Day gives
students experience with interacting with people from all walks of life and educating them
about preservation.
Department:
College:
Title of Project:
Faculty Mentor:
Number of Students Involved:
Course Number in Which Students Enrolled:
Number of Credits:
Disciplines of Participants:
Center for Historic Preservation
College of Architecture and Planning
Historic Structure Report for the
Historic Garage at the T.C. Steele State
Historic Site
Susan Lankford
4
N/A
N/A
Historic Preservation
Describe the tangible outcome or product:
Report will include a history of the property, architectural description, condition assessment,
structural assessment, options for interpretation and restoration, and measured drawings.
The State of Indiana will use the report as a guide for future restoration
Community Partner:
Indiana State Museum and Historic
Sites and the Indiana Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology
List the student learning outcomes. Students gained experience documenting historic
buildings, conducting primary research, examining the physical conditions of historic
buildings, and developing interpretation plans, restoration plans, and maintenance plans.
Describe how the experience helped students define a career path or make connections to a
profession or industry. Students gained vital skills that are necessary for successful
preservation careers. They also made connections with Indiana’s leaders in preservation and
historic site management.
Department:
College:
Title of Project:
Center for Historic Preservation
College of Architecture and Planning
Historic Structure Report for the Entry
Faculty Mentor:
Number of Students Involved:
Course Number in Which Students Enrolled:
Number of Credits:
Disciplines of Participants:
Arch at the T.C. Steele State Historic Site
Susan Lankford
4
N/A
N/A
Historic Preservation
Describe the tangible outcome or product:
Report will include a history of the property, architectural description, condition assessment,
structural assessment, options for interpretation and restoration, and measured drawings.
The State of Indiana will use the report as a guide for future restoration
Community Partner: Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites and the Indiana Division of
Historic Preservation and Archaeology
List the student learning outcomes. Students gained experience documenting historic
buildings, conducting primary research, examining the physical conditions of historic
buildings, and developing interpretation plans, restoration plans, and maintenance plans.
Describe how the experience helped students define a career path or make connections to a
profession or industry. Students gained vital skills that are necessary for successful
preservation careers. They also made connections with Indiana’s leaders in preservation and
historic site management.
Department:
College:
Title of Project:
Faculty Mentor:
Number of Students Involved:
Course Number in Which Students Enrolled:
Number of Credits:
Disciplines of Participants:
Architecture
CAP
DNR Foundation/DHPA Graduate
Assistantship
Susan Lankford
1
N/A
N/A
Historic Preservation
Describe the tangible outcome or product: The Graduate Assistant helped the DHPA develop
their SHAARD database of Indiana historic resources and completed technical reviews on
National Register of Historic Places nominations that were submitted to the DHPA.
Community Partner: The DNR (Department of Natural Resources) Foundation and the Indiana
Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology
What was the problem the group was asked to solve? N/A
List the student learning outcomes. The student learned how to complete technical reviews
for National Register nominations and learned how to enter data into the SHAARD GIS
database.
Describe how the experience helped students define a career path or make connections to a
profession or industry. The student worked directly with the staff of the Division of Historic
Preservation and Archaeology, who are all considered to be some of the most knowledgeable
historic preservation professionals in Indiana.
Department:
College:
Title of Project:
Faculty Mentor:
Number of Students Involved:
Course Number in Which Students Enrolled:
Number of Credits:
Disciplines of Participants:
Architecture
CAP
Historic Sites and Structures
Inventory: Warren and Bartholomew
County Interim Reports
Susan Lankford
6
N/A
N/A
Historic Preservation
Describe the tangible outcome or product: Publication of the results of the historic resources
surveys of Warren and Bartholomew Counties, which were completed in 2010.
Community Partner:
Indiana Landmarks
What was the problem the group was asked to solve? N/A
List the student learning outcomes. Students learned basic desktop publishing skills. They also
learned the values of surveys publications, which are used by communities to plan for
heritage tourism other preservation planning projects.
Describe how the experience helped students define a career path or make connections to a
profession or industry. Students connected to preservation and community leaders Warren
and Bartholomew Counties. They also worked with leaders from Indiana Landmarks, the
largest state-wide preservation advocacy organization in the country.
Summary of Service Learning
Client
City
Project
Title
Project
Director
County
#
Stude
nts
Emerson
Heights
Design
Charrette
Brad Beaubien,
with Lohren
Deeg, Simon
Bussiere, Bruce
Race
Susan Lankford
Emerson Heights Community
Organization, with support from
Community Hospital East and
Indy-east Asset Development.
Indianapolis
Marion
20
Indiana State Fair
Indianapolis
Marion
3
Susan Lankford
The DNR (Department of Natural
Resources) Foundation and the
Indiana Division of Historic
Preservation and Archaeology
Indianapolis
Marion
1
Susan Lankford
Indiana Landmarks
Williamsport
and Columbus
Warren and
Bartholomew
Counties
6
Historic
Structure
Report for
the Historic
Garage at
the T.C.
Steele State
Historic Site
Susan Lankford
Indiana State Museum and
Historic Sites
Nashville
Brown
County
4
Historic
Structure
Report for
the Entry
Arch at the
Susan Lankford
Indiana State Museum and
Historic Sites
Nashville
Brown
County
4
Heritage
Day
DNR
Foundation/
DHPA
Graduate
Assistantshi
p
Historic
Sites and
Structures
Inventory:
Warren and
Bartholome
w County
Interim
Reports
T.C. Steele
State
Historic Site
Developmen
t of a
Heritage
Plaque
Program for
Downtown
Lawrencebu
rg, Indiana
Publication
of the
Interim
Report
Publication
of the
Interim
Report
Susan Lankford
Lawrenceburg Main Street
Lawrenceburg
Dearborn
3
Susan Lankford
Warren County
Warren
Warren
1
Susan Lankford
Bartholomew County
Bartholomew
Bartholomew
1
This spring semester, students and faculty in the Department of Urban Planning assisted
the Delaware County Planning Commission to develop a complete streets policy and
program for the City of Muncie. The last full week in January, the students in
Community Facilities Planning assembled background information on ―complete streets‖
– including reference material and models that have been used in other Midwestern
communities. On February 20, a kick-off event was held that included a lecture from
Cynthia Hoyle of Orion Planning Group and a workshop held the following day that
welcomed alumni and community leader participation. Continuing progress on the plan
was on April 16 and 17 with a charrette/workshop held at the CAP, again collaborative
with alumni and community leaders. During the charrette a draft of a report with
recommendations was developed. The final version was provided during a public
presentation to Muncie community leaders, community partners, college members, and
friends.
-CAP Field Trip Week, Off-Campus, and Study Abroad Programs.
A substantial number of students of the College traveled to national and international
destinations and performed on-site studies. It may be argued that CAP/BSU has the
largest design, planning, and construction field trip program in the nation, if not the
world. We are developing plans for adding more distinctiveness to the presence of our
student groups as they travel around the nation and the world. We would like to develop
the concept of ―the living billboard‖ and let them be noticed as they travel nationally and
internationally (as long as it is safe to identify themselves as an American college group).
This year our students visited a variety of locations during field trip week. Itineraries
included: Atlanta, Canada, Connecticut, Illinois, Kansas, New York, Italy & The
Netherlands, Michigan, California, Ohio, Colorado, Portland, Minneapolis, Washington
DC, Boston, Denver, San Francisco, Seattle, and Wisconsin.
CAP 1st Year Students in Chicago.
In addition to the tradition of field trip week, students traveled via CAP Italia,
CAPAmericano-Sur, and to the Australia Center in 2012.
Objective
D. Increase the number of nationally ranked or recognized academic and curricular programs.
-In Architecture:
In the fall of 2011, DesignIntelligence ranked the Master of Architecture professional
program, currently in its 4th year of implementation, 9th among twenty-four graduate
programs in the Midwest. It is a remarkable achievement for this young graduate
program to be ranked ahead of many well established programs in the region housed at
leading research universities, including The Ohio State, University of Minnesota,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, University of Illinois at Chicago, and other schools
in the region.
We continue to be cited among America‘s World-Class Architecture Schools. The
Cramer Report: America’s World-Class Schools of Architecture has not been
updated us such since 2009.
We continue to be cited among the top 3 schools with an emphasis in Digital Design and
Fabrication, and among a handful of schools with demonstrated excellence in addressing
issues of social justice in the built environment. The ARCHITECT Magazine has not
updated such an assessment since 2010.
-In Landscape Architecture:
In 2011-12, DesignIntelligence has ranked the Master of Landscape Architecture
program as one of the top 10 in the nation (for the tenth year in a row). It is one of two
programs in that group that is not housed in a top tier research university. The Bachelor
of Landscape Architecture program has earned the 9th position in the corresponding
ranking. The master‘s program was the only program in the top ten that is not housed in a
Research 1 university, attesting to the distinctiveness of the program, faculty, curriculum
and, most importantly, the students.
In 2010, DesignIntelligence issued The Cramer Report: America’s World-Class
Schools of Landscape Architecture. In that report our Department of Landscape
Architecture ranks at the top of the list (alphabetical) of schools recognized as a WorldClass Schools “With Highest Distinction”. This report has not been updated by
DesignIntelligence. We continue to be cited among America‘s World-Class Landscape
Architecture Schools.
The Department of Landscape Architecture achieved a record breaking full term (6 year)
re-accreditation at the national level within twelve months for all three of their
professionally accredited programs: the professional undergraduate Bachelors of
Landscape Architecture degree program, the career-change Masters of Landscape
Architecture degree program and the 2-year professional Masters of Landscape
Architecture degree program.
This year, the Landscape Architecture Accrediting Board sent a two-man team of
academics and practitioners to review the six (6) standards used in the evaluation and all
standards were "met" with one recommendation identifying the need to expand our
connection to outside constituency and stakeholder groups. This recommendation along
with other suggestions that emerged from discussions during the accrediting visit will be
used to shape the upcoming DoLA strategic planning initiative.
-In Urban Planning
-The Department of Urban Planning has been
ranked #10 among 22 institutions in the
Midwest by the Planetizen 2012 Guide. This
is the first time that our program in Urban
Planning enters this ranking.
-The Department of Urban Planning has also
been cited for its emphasis in Community
Development, Economic Development, and
Environmental
Sustainability
by
the
Planetizen 2012 Guide.
In the inaugural summary of the Urban Planning Certification Exam between 2004 and
2011. The schools are divided by quartiles that represent their relative size/longevity.
Our Master Program is 2nd in the 3rd Quartile above many well-known institutions. Our
Bachelor Program is in the 2nd Quartile just under the Master Programs of Cornell and
Harvard, and above the programs in Clemson, Texas A&M, and Cincinnati.
E
Objective . Offer market-responsive and nationally ranked or recognized extended education opportunities that
are integrated with on-campus offerings
Development of the course CAP200 (Fundamentals of Design Thinking) during the Fall
of 2011 and its implementation as a pilot (4 students) during the Spring of 2012. CAP200
is a cohort-based Distance Education implementation that contributes to UCC-21 / Tier
II, and the university Bachelor of General Studies Program. After addressing the
feedback provided by the students of the pilot implementation, the course will be ready
for further enrollment growth starting in the Fall of 2012. I have already started to report
the innovative aspects of this implementation through peer-reviewed publications (see
scholarship).
Course management has been implemented through the use of the university Blackboard
Content Management System. The system provides the students with access to lectures,
class dynamic scheduling, and delivery/repository of class assignments. The system also
provides for communication management.
Lectures are recorded making use of the university Teleplex Virtual Set infrastructure.
We have initiated the build-up of a repository of relevant interviews with distinguished
visitors (guests of the Charles Sappenfield Lecture Series). These recordings constitute an
accumulative resource for CAP200 and other related courses.
Screen shots from CAP 200 course.
The Landscape Architecture department started the summer of 2011 with an academic
retreat focused on the outcomes of the MLA accreditation review and the opportunities
for the graduate program curriculum. The faculty evaluated each course in terms of
learning outcomes within the context of the preceding and following course in thematic
sequences. This same review was conducted by graduate students throughout the
program. Information gained from both retreats yielded support for developing program
shifts to accommodate the non-traditional student and to improve both the start and
conclusion of the studio. The retreat data was used to revise the department's graduate
program in 2911/2012. With faculty buy-in and loading opportunities, faculty will be
encouraged to offer opportunities for non-traditional students through extended education
in fall of 2012.
GOAL 2LARSHIP
The College of Architecture and Planning will support and reward faculty and student scholarship of
discovery, integration, application, and teaching.
Objective
A. Increase the number of quality faculty development opportunities to support high-quality scholarship
-CAP Faculty Symposium (Annex #2)
On April 4th CAP held its 5th Annual Faculty & Student Symposium. That day we
canceled regular CAP classes and our faculty and students presented papers to an inhouse audience of peers. The event provided a forum for faculty and students to learn
more about their scholarship and to explore opportunities for building synergy.
This was the second year that a faculty committee took leadership of this event. The
program provided a split between panel discussions and paper presentations. Particular
attention was placed on the presentations of faculty returning from development leave
(special assigned leave) the year before.
All sessions of the symposium were well attended throughout the day.
Objective
B. Expand extramural funding to support scholarship.
-Grant Proposals and Extramural Funding
This is a record of all formal research proposals funded or pending review in the 2011-12
period (this list does not include some CBP or BBC projects). Through April 2012, CAP
had submitted 53 proposals, requesting $13,012,541. During that same time period, 15
proposals were funded, totaling $326,473. A substantial number of proposals are still
pending potential funding decisions.
Author of
Proposal
Department
Title of Proposal
Sponsor
Bilello,
Joseph
Architecture
Daas,
Mahesh
Architecture
Eggink,
Harry
Architecture
CAP Sustainability
Initiative: From
Excess Property to
Community Based
Projects
EFRI ODESSEI:
Kinetogami:
Structurally and
Functionally
Reconfigurable Folded
Metamorphic Systems
DeKalb Memorial
Hospital Charrette
Elvin,
George
Kendall,
Stephen
Architecture
Kendall,
Stephen
Architecture
Middelton,
Deborah
Architecture
Spodek,
Jonathan
Architecture
Vermillion,
Joshua
Architecture
Beaubien,
Brad
CAPIndy
Center
Beaubien,
Brad
CAPIndy
Center
Beaubien,
Brad
CAPIndy
Center
Emerson Heights
Neighborhood
Visioning Workshop
General Motors Reuse
Study Field Work
Beaubien,
Brad
CAPIndy
Center
Reconnecting to Our
Waterways Phase 1
Architecture
Zero-Energy Garage
Door Opener
Healthcare Facility
Design for Flexibility
Code and Market
Research for
Innovative Methods of
Infilling Demised
Spaces in Buildings
Mapping Typologies
of Informal Student
Learning Strategies
and Learning Space
Use in Dynamic
Research Library
Learning Commons
Design & Technical
Assistance
NRI-Large: SemiAutonomous
Construction Avatar
(S.A.C.A)
Graduate Assistantship
Requested/
Funded
Date
Submitted/
Funded
Status
Discovery Group
$17,000
03-Oct-11
Not Funded
Purdue
University
$55,000
30-Mar-12
Pending
DeKalb
Memorial
Hospital
U.S. Department
of Energy
National Institute
of Building
Sciences
Infill Systems
$15,000
06-Feb-12
Pending
$310,704
12-Jul-11
$125,000
27-Sep-11
Funded
$16,292
14-Oct-11
Pending
Spencer
Foundation
$39,959
27-Apr-12
Pending
ecoREHAB of
Muncie, Inc.
$13,951
23-Apr-12
Pending
National Science
Foundation
$4,223,510
18-Jan-12
Pending
King Park Area
Development
Corporation
Emerson Heights
Neighborhood
Association
City of
Indianapolis,
Indiana
Keep
Indianapolis
Beautiful, Inc.
$8,096
11-Jul-11
Funded
$6,521
11-Jul-11
Funded
$5,100
11-Jul-11
Pending
$16,000
21-Feb-12
Funded
Not Funded
Lankford,
Susan
Center for
Historic
Preservation
Lankford,
Susan
Center for
Historic
Preservation
Center for
Historic
Preservation
Lankford,
Susan
Lankford,
Susan
Lankford,
Susan
Center for
Historic
Preservation
Center for
Historic
Preservation
Heritage Plaque
Program for
Downtown
Lawrenceburg,
Indiana
Seed Funds for the
"Modern Muncie
Homes" Project
The Modern Muncie
Home: A Recent Past
Public Education
Project (Planning
Phase)
Neighborhood
Revitalization and
Preservation Plan
Preservation Services
Graduate Assistantship
Center for
Historic
Preservation
Center for
Historic
Preservation
Trenton Gas Dome
Heritage Development
Project
Planning Funds for the
"Modern Muncie
Homes" Project
Lankford,
Susan
Center for
Historic
Preservation
Lankford,
Susan
Center for
Historic
Preservation
Lankford,
Susan
Center for
Historic
Preservation
Lankford,
Susan
Center for
Historic
Preservation
Center for
Historic
Preservation
Condition Assessment
and Maintenance Plan
of the Shoaff Park
Barn
Delaware County
Historic Sites and
Structures Inventory Pre-Survey Planning
Phase
Walking Tour
Brochure of Historic
Architecture in/near
Downtown North
Vernon
Limited Survey for the
"Modern Muncie
Homes" Project
The Modern Muncie
Home: A Recent Past
Public Education
Project
Lankford,
Susan
Lankford,
Susan
Lankford,
Susan
Lankford,
Susan
Center for
Historic
Preservation
Report on Adaptive
Uses for a Historic
Building in Downtown
Clay City, Indiana
Lawrenceburg
Main Street
$19,638
21-Jul-11
Funded
Ball Brothers
Foundation
$4,998
21-Jul-11
Not Funded
Sherman and
Marjorie Zeigler
Foundation
$13,830
26-Jul-11
Not Funded
Farrington‘s
Grove Historical
District, Inc.
Indiana
Department of
Natural
Resources
National
Endowment for
the Humanities
Community
Foundation of
Muncie and
Delaware
County, Inc.
Fort Wayne
Parks and
Recreation
$41,716
06-Aug-11
Pending
$7,016
12-Aug-11
Funded
$48,695
17-Aug-11
Not Funded
$6,962
14-Oct-11
Not Funded
$2,950
18-Nov-11
Pending
Indiana
Department of
Natural
Resources
$17,845
02-Dec-11
Pending
City of North
Vernon, Indiana
$5,037
08-Dec-11
Pending
City of Muncie,
Indiana
$7,155
20-Dec-11
Pending
Community
Foundation of
Muncie and
Delaware
County, Inc.
Clay City USA
Foundation, Inc.
$41,068
30-Dec-11
Pending
$4,563
20-Jan-12
Pending
Lankford,
Susan
Center for
Historic
Preservation
Lankford,
Susan
Center for
Historic
Preservation
Lankford,
Susan
Center for
Historic
Preservation
Lankford,
Susan
Center for
Historic
Preservation
Lankford,
Susan
Center for
Historic
Preservation
Lankford,
Susan
Center for
Historic
Preservation
Lankford,
Susan
Center for
Historic
Preservation
Lankford,
Susan
Center for
Historic
Preservation
CommunityBased
Projects
Truex,
Scott
Truex,
Scott
Truex,
Scott
Truex,
Scott
CommunityBased
Projects
CommunityBased
Projects
CommunityBased
Projects
Condition Assessment,
Cost Estimates, and
Reuse Options for the
Lynnwood Farm Corn
Crib
Façade Rehabilitation
Study for a Historic
Building in Downtown
Clay City, Indiana
Development of a
Bicycle, Driving and
Bus Tour of Six
Historic Districts in
South Bend, Indiana
The Modern Muncie
Home: A Recent Past
Public Education
Project
Historic Structure
Report for Carriage
House/Woodshed at
the Governor
Hendricks
Headquarters,
Corydon State Historic
Site
Historic Structure
Report for the
Constitutional Elm
Monument, Corydon
State Historic Site
The Modern Muncie
Home: A Recent Past
Public Education
Project
Historic Structure
Report for the
Mansion House
Sustainable
Communities Initiative
for the GreenLine
Regional Corridor
Graduate Student
Sponsorship
Agreement - Harmoni
Increasing Community
Participation at the
Local Government
Level in China
Comprehensive Plan
and Development
Strategy for Griffith,
Indiana
Carmel Clay
Historical
Society
$3,339
20-Jan-12
Pending
Clay City USA
Foundation, Inc.
$4,850
20-Jan-12
Pending
Historic
Preservation
Commission of
South Bend and
St. Joseph
County
National Trust
for Historic
Preservation
$5,401
20-Jan-12
Pending
$4,993
01-Feb-12
Pending
Indiana State
Museum
$11,180
14-Feb-12
Pending
Indiana State
Museum
$12,247
14-Feb-12
Pending
Indiana
Humanities
Council
$2,000
01-Mar-12
Pending
Historic
Centerville
$18,462
02-Mar-12
Pending
U.S. Department
of Housing and
Urban
Development
Central Indiana
Community
Foundation
U.S. Department
of State
$1,063,194
25-Aug-11
Accepted
$4,048
30-Aug-11
Pending
$1,048,710
07-Sep-11
Not Funded
Town of Griffith,
Indiana
$2,500
30-Sep-11
Pending
Truex,
Scott
Truex,
Scott
CommunityBased
Projects
CommunityBased
Projects
Truex,
Scott
CommunityBased
Projects
Truex,
Scott
CommunityBased
Projects
Truex,
Scott
CommunityBased
Projects
CommunityBased
Projects
Truex,
Scott
Preservation Plan for
the King's Daughters'
Hospital
Sustainable
Communities Initiative
for the GreenLine
Regional Corridor
Lafiteau Regenerative
Village
Global Center for
Complexity Science
and Development: A
Proposal to Increase
Efficiency and
Effectiveness of
USAID Projects
Ghana Place-based
Education (PBE) as
Study Abroad
Ball State University
Global Center for
Complexity Science
and Development,
Field Study Initiative:
El Salvador & Brazil
Summer Workshop for
High School Students
Mounayar,
Michel
Dean's
Office
Vermillion,
Joshua
Baas,
Robert
Institute for
Digital
Fabrication
Landscape
Architecture
Motloch,
John
Landscape
Architecture
Rosenblatt,
Jody
Landscape
Architecture
Burayidi,
Michael
Urban
Planning
Delaware-Muncie
Metropolitan Plan
Commission Graduate
Assistantship 2011-12
Jiao,
Junfeng
Urban
Planning
Food Deserts and
Community Peace in
Indianapolis, Indiana
ZIPP – Speed
Weaponry Display
Wall
A Century of the City
Beautiful: George E.
Kessler‘s 1912 Park
and Boulevard Plan
for Fort Wayne,
Indiana
Nonviolent Alternative
to Resolution of
Conflicts over Global
Resources
Three Assistance &
Education Projects
City of Madison,
Indiana
$19,000
06-Oct-11
Pending
U.S. Department
of Housing and
Urban
Development
United States
Agency for
International
Development
United States
Agency for
International
Development
$1,846,112
06-Oct-11
Not Funded
$114,145
14-Oct-11
Pending
$3,136,375
23-Mar-12
Not Funded
U.S. Department
of State
$249,183
20-Apr-12
Pending
U.S. Department
of Education
$110,000
23-Apr-12
Pending
National
Endowment for
the Arts
Quattrolab
$10,000
15-Feb-12
Funded
$3,660
28-Dec-11
Funded
$2,000
01-Feb-12
Pending
Benjamin V.
Cohen Memorial
Fund
$15,000
19-Sep-11
Not Funded
Indianapolis
Department of
Parks &
Recreation
DelawareMuncie
Metropolitan
Plan
Commission
Benjamin V.
Cohen Memorial
Fund
$94,036
28-Mar-12
Pending
$8,500
02-Aug-11
Funded
$15,000
19-Sep-11
Not Funded
Indiana
Humanities
Council
Jiao,
Junfeng
Urban
Planning
Using Online Twitter
Messages to Evaluate
Cities‘ Performance
on Special Event
Hosting—
Urban
Communication
Foundation
$10,000
30-Apr-12
Pending
Perera,
Nihal
Urban
Planning
CAP Asia VII Support
U.S. Department
of Education
$125,000
23-Apr-12
Pending
Objective
C. Increase the number of faculty and students and the breadth of disciplines engaged in scholarship.
-CAP Faculty Scholarly Presentations and Publications.
In celebration of our collective scholarship we have consolidated a list of publications in
which our faculty, are authors, co-authors or chief editors. Additionally we have
produced a poster listing all faculty publications available in our library system and
purchased (many donated) a number of such publications for display and consultation in
the waiting area of the Dean‘s Office.
Following these lines we present the list of scholarly presentations and publications of
our faculty over the 2011-12 academic year.
Author
Co-Author
Title
Venue
Date
Submitted
Status
Adams, Vera
Tyler, Norm
Planning and Community
Development, A guide to the 21st
Century. (Book Review)
Journal of Planning
Education and
Research (JPER)
2012
Published
Baas, Chris
Gibson, Angie
86° 10' 54" W, 39° 46' 1" N:
Using Geographic Information
Systems to Document Historic
Sporting Landscape
Journal of Sport
History
Fall 2011
Published
Baas, Chris
Strecker, Geri
Professional Black Baseball in
Indianapolis Ballparks
Traces of Indiana
History
Fall 2011
Published
Baas, Chris
Rubino, Darrin
The Most Successful Press in
This or Any Other Country: The
Material Culture of 19th Century
Beater Hay Presses in the MidOhio Valley
Material Culture:
The Journal of the
Pioneer America
Society
Spring 2012
Published
Baas, Chris
Benson, Robert
Worth Its Weight in Gold: The
Designed and Vernacular
Landscapes of Carolina Rice
Magnolia:
Publication of the
Southern Garden
History Society
July 2011
Not
Published
Baas, Chris
Identifying Interpretive Center
Locations for an AfricanAmerican Industrial and
Agricultural Campus
CRM: Journal of
Cultural Resource
Management
June 2010
Baas, Chris
Concrete in the Steel City
Preserving Indiana
Spring &
Summer 2011
Non Peer
Reviewed
Baas, Chris
Beaters and Levers: The
Evolution of the Beater Hay
Press
Agricultural
Historical Society
Annual Conference
June 2011
Presented
Baas, Chris
Remembering Washington Park
Jerry Malloy Negro
League Conference
July 2011
Presented
Baas, Chris
Using HALS to Record Black
Baseball Landscapes: Student
Immersive Learning in
Documenting Perry Stadium
Jerry Malloy Negro
League Conference
July 2011
Presented
Baas, Chris
Re-siting Baseball History:
Using GIS Technology to Locate
and Honor Washington Park,
Indianapolis
July 2011
Presented
Baas, Chris
The Mormon Beater Hay Press
Barn: Defining a Mid-Ohio
Valley Barn Type for the
Commercial Pressing and
Shipping of Hay
What Did Gene Stratton-Porter
See From Her Million Dollar
View: Exploring the Early 20th
Century Symbology of Natural,
Native, and Wild Landscapes,
and Their Implications for Early
21st Century Landscape
Preservation
―Becoming an Architect‖: A
Guide to Careers in Design
(Citation)
Poster Presentation:
Society for
American Baseball
Research Annual
Conference, Los
Angeles
Vernacular
Architecture Forum
June 2012`
Pending
CELA Conference,
University of
Illinois at UrbanaChampaign,
Champaign, Illinois
2012
Presented
2011
Published
2011
Presented
Baas, Chris
Bilello, Joe
Waldrep, Lee
Bilello, Joe
Bilello, Joe
St. Myer, T.
―Open Source and the Near
Future of Design Professions‖
Ball State
University, CAP
Faculty Forum
―Dig, set, spike‖ exhibit essay
Muncie Star Press
Published
Bilello, Joe
―Little known architecture of the
Lake Michigan Region‖
Shore Magazine
Published
Bilello, Joe
BSU excess property recycling
project.
Ball State
University,
Emerging Green
Builders
Published
Bilello, Joe
―Bicycles on campus,
suggestions to initiate a free bike
program‖
Ball State
University, Daily
News
Published
Bilello, Joe
Ecobuild Conference
2011
Presented
Burayidi,
Michael
Resilient Downtowns of Small
Urban Communities
2012
Pending
Bussiere, Simon
―Design & Engagement Tactics
in Emerging Communities:
Lessons for Educators‖
2012
Paper
Presentation
Bussiere, Simon
―Sustainable Tactics in
Emerging Communities‖
2012
Paper
Presentation
Cairns, Malcolm
Indiana Heritage of Landscape
Architecture
CELA Conference,
University of
Illinois at UrbanaChampaign,
Champaign, Illinois
CELA Conference,
University of
Illinois at UrbanaChampaign,
Champaign, Illinois
College of
Architecture and
Planning, Faculty
Symposium
Spring 2011
Presented
Calkins, Meg
Sustainable Sites Handbook
Ball State
University,
Faculty/Student
Symposium
October 2011
& April 2012
Public
Presentation
Calkins, Meg
Bernot, M.J.,
Bernot, R.J.
Hunt, M.
The influence of different urban
pavements on water quality
International
Journal of Road
Materials and
Pavement Design
Spring 2011
Peer
Reviewed
Calkins, Meg
Booth, N.
Sullivan, C.
Cummins, M
―Publishing Textbooks in the
Digital Age‖
CELA Conference,
University of
Illinois at UrbanaChampaign,
Champaign, Illinois
2012
Panelist
Campbell,
Duncan
IU History Seminar
Indiana University
2012
Presentation
Campbell,
Duncan
Columbus Modernism
Indiana University
Press
2012
Pending –
invited
author
Corbin, Carla
Survey and Typology of
Common First Year Programs,
for the Environmental Design
Professionals
Ball State
University,
Faculty/Student
Symposium
2012
Public
Presentation
ACSA Conference,
Boston, MA.
2012
Daas, Mahesh
Daas, Mahesh
Palettes of Diversity: Diversity a
vital component of many walks,
disciplines of life
Muncie Star Press,
Muncie, Indiana
2012
Published
De Brea, Ana
Latin American Architecture
Norton Professional
Books, New York
2012
Pending
―Throwing Paint: Using
Divergent Thinking to Energize
the Traditional Design Studio‖
In-Form: A Journal
of Design Culture,
Univ. of NebraskaLincoln
2011
Published
―Reuse of the 747‖
Boeing
Aeronautical
Engineers, Seattle,
WA.
2011
Presented
Deeg, Lohren
Rotar, S.
Eggink, Harry
Eggink, Harry
Mounayar, M.
Race, B.
―West Washington St‖ – Studio
Book, UD Indianapolis Studio
Lulu Press Inc.
2011
Published
Eggink, Harry
Millard, N.
―Not your Average Garden
Shed‖
M Magazine
2011
NonRefereed
Journal
Articles
Eggink, Harry
Millard, N.
―At Home with Nature‖
M Magazine
2011
NonRefereed
Journal
Articles
Elvin, George
Nanotechnology in Architecture:
New Risks and Rewards
Buildgreen
Argentina, Buenos
Aires, Argentina
2011
Presented
Frankel, Bruce
Ball State students propose
southwest side revitalization
project:
The Herald Bulletin,
Anderson, Indiana
2012
Published
Gray, Tim
EcoMOD: Prefabricated
Sustainable Housing Prototype
Ball State
University,
Faculty/Student
Symposium
2012
Public
Presentation
Gray, Tim
―Material, method and Place;
Architectural Investigations thru
Marketing‖
University of Idaho,
Moscos Idaho
2011
Presented
Gray, Tim
―Integrating Sustainable
Building Practices into
Architectural Education‖
Taylor University,
University Science
Seminar
2011
Presented
Gray, Tim
Edited by Gray
Reed and
Marcia
Feuerstein
―Architecture as a Performing
Art‖
Ashgate Press
2011
Published
Gray, Tim
Hoppe, M.
―Salvaged Layers; A Site
Specific Performance‖
ACSA Natl. Conf.
Montreal, Quebec
2012
Refereed
Conference
Paper
Gray, Tim
Kim, H.
―A Collaborative Performance‖
C3 International
Design,
Seoul, South Korea
2012
NonRefereed
Periodical
Gray, Tim
―Hotel Broad Ripple Planning
Green Features‖
Indiana Business
Journal
2012
Published
Grondzik,
Walter
Solar Decathlon
USDOW
2011
Grondzik,
Walter
Presentation
Passive House
Annual Conference
2011
Presentation
Grondzik,
Walter
Lecture
University of
Oregon
2011
Presentation
The Green Studio Handbook
Architectural Press
2011
Published
―PV Performance Patterns for
Schematic Design‖
Solar 2011, ASES
2011
Abstractreviewed
paper
―Charter School Patterns of
Innovation: A New Architecture
for a New Education‖
Ball State
University
2011
Published
―CAP down under‖
Ball State
University, Center
for International
Programs, Australia
Centre
2011
Published
―Architreks ARCH 429:
Undergraduate Field Trip
Building Post Occupancy
Evaluation‖
Ball State
University
2011
Published
Harwood, Pam
―More than Child‘s Play‖
Ball State
University, Ball
Bearings Magazine
2011
NonRefereed
Journal
Article
Harwood, Pam
―Making a Difference: Tot Spot
Metamorphosis‖
Ball State
University,
Marketing and
Communications
2011
NonRefereed
Journal
Article
Harwood, Pam
―Muncie Children‘s Museum
Opens New Place to Play:
Architecture students from BSU
renovated the age 5-and-younger
area at the museum‖
Muncie Star Press
2011
Interview
Harwood, Pam
Tot Spot
WIPB, Channel 49
2011
Interview
Hunt, Martha
Less than Wild: The Design of
National Parks and Zoos.
Association for the
Study of Literature
and the
Environment
June 2011
Presented
Grondzik,
Walter
Kwok, A.
Grondzik,
Walter
Harwood, Pam
Roberts, D.
Harwood, Pam
Harwood, Pam
Argo, A.
Janz, Wes
Small architecture BIG
LANDSCAPES
Central Michigan
University
2011
Showcase of
work
Janz, Wes
―leftover rightunder‖
University of
WisconsinMilwaukee, School
of Architecture and
Urban Planning
2011
Lecture
Janz, Wes
Small architecture BIG
LANDSCAPES
University of
WisconsinMilwaukee
2011
Showcase of
work
Jiao, Junfeng
Moudon, A.V.
Drewnowski, A.
Lin, L.
How individuals and built
environments influence grocery
shopping travel frequency?
Journal of Urban
Planning and
Development
2012
Under
Review
Jiao, Junfeng
Moudon, A.V.
Ulmer, J.
Hurvitz, P.
Drewnowski, A.
How to Identify Food Deserts:
Measuring Physical and
Economic Access to
Supermarkets in King County,
WA.
American Journal of
Public Health
2012
Forthcoming
Jiao, Junfeng
Moudon, A.V.
Drewnowski, A.
Grocery shopping: How
individuals and built
environments influence travel
mode choice.
Transportation
Research Record:
Journal of the
Transportation
Research Board
2011
Published
Jiao, Junfeng
Moudon, A.V.
Lin, L.
Hurvitz, P.
Reeves, P.
Accident Analysis
& Prevention
2011
Published
Jiao, Junfeng
Moudon, A.V.
The risk of pedestrian injury and
fatality in collisions with motor
vehicles; a social ecological
study of state routes and city
streets in King County,
Washington
The relationship between
socioeconomic status, attitudes
toward food, built environments,
and travel frequency to grocery
store.
52nd Association of
Collegiate Schools
of Planning
(ACSP), Salt Lake
City, Utah
2011
Paper
Presentation
Jiao, Junfeng
Kang, B.
Moundon, A.V.
Using hierarchical linear models
to predict commuting mode
choice (Transit vs. SOV) in the
Seattle metropolitan Area.
52nd Association of
Collegiate Schools
of Planning
(ACSP), Salt Lake
City, Utah
2011
Paper
Presentation
Jiao, Junfeng
Moundon, A.V.
Drewnowski, A.
How individuals and built
environments influence grocery
shopping travel frequency?
Transportation
Research Board 91st
Annual Meeting,
Washington, D.C.
2012
Paper
Presentation
Jiao, Junfeng
Holmes, M.
Analysis of spatial Twitter
messages during a special event.
The case of the 2012 Super
Bowl, Indianapolis, IN.
42nd Urban Affairs
Association Annual
Conference,
Pittsburgh, PA.
2012
Paper
Presentation
Jiao, Junfeng
Li, Y.
The Influence of Built
Environments on Grocery
Shopper‘s Destination Choice –
A Case Study of Seattle.
6th International
Association for
China Planning
Conference, Wuhan,
China
2012
Paper
Presentation
Jiao, Junfeng
Li, Y.
He, L.
A spatial analysis of housing
prices in Chinese coastal cities, a
case study of the city of Xiamen,
China.
6th International
Association for
China Planning
Conference, Wuhan,
China
2012
Paper
Presentation
Keddy, K.
―Nursing activities: embodied
professionalism and spaces of
work‖
Blurring
Boundaries,
Building Bridges:
The Legacy of the
Milwaukee School
2011
Chapter
Published
Kelly, Eric
Community Planning
(Revised and Published as sole
author)
Island Press
2010
Published
Kelly, Eric
A Practical Guild to Land Use
Approvals and Permits
New York: Matthew
Bender & Co.
Handbook for Planning Law:
Principles and Practices for
Northeastern Illinois
Rutgers University
Center for Planning
Practice & Duncan
Associates
Kelly, Eric
Kelly, Eric
Morris, M.
Meck, S.
Chapter Revisions – ―Strategies
for Obtaining Necessary
Approvals‖ and ―Procedures for
Judicial Review‖
Kelly, Eric
Published
2011
Published
2010
Published
Planning and
Environmental Law
Kelly, Eric
Zoning and Land Use Controls
Annual loose-leaf update
Kelly, Eric
Administrative Zoning
Procedure Chapter 51 revision, plus inserts
and updates to 24 additional
chapters (April). Chapter 33
―Federal and State Regulation of
Land Use Planning and
Control‖, plus inserts and
updates to 10 additional chapters
(August).
Revision Chapter 39 ―Zoning
Districts and Zoning for Private
Uses‖, plus inserts and updates
to 21 other chapters (December).
New York: Matthew
Bender & Co.
Published
2011
Published
2011
Published
Kendall, Stephen
Factory-made & Industrialized
Building Systems
Montreal, Canada
2011
Conference
Speaker
Kendall, Stephen
―Production should support
inhabitation‖
Kieran Timberlake,
Philadelphia
2011
Invited
Presenter
Kendall, Stephen
―Production should support
inhabitation‖
Drexel University,
School of
Architecture and
Interior Design
2011
Invited
Presenter
Kendall, Stephen
Teaching & Lecturing,
coordinator and planning of
Open Building Beijing
Harbin Inst. Of
Tech w/Prof. Beisi
and at Tianjin
2012
Lecture
Kendall, Stephen
―Hospitals on the Time Axis:
Trends in the real world and
implications for architectural
education‖
Health
Environments
Research and
Design (HERD)
2011
Published
Kendall, Stephen
―Developments toward a
Residential Infill Industry‖
Open house
Internationals
2011
Published
Kendall, Stephen
―Housing in Crisis: Open
Building – An Antidote to the
Commodification of Housing‖
Aldiri. Arkitektura
eta abar, Bilbao,
Spain
2011
Published
Kendall, Stephen
―How a Fit-Out Industry will
Change Architecture‖
New Architecture
2011
Published
Kendall, Stephen
―The Devil is in the Details‖
SOLIDS
CONSOLIDATED
3
2011
Published
Kendall, Stephen
Study of new developments in
Japan on efficient customization
of dwelling units in existing
building stock
Interview
2011
Published
Kendall, Stephen
Kent Turner, President Cannon
Design North America
Interview
2011
Published
Klinger, Kevin
Digital Fab Symposium
Lisbon
2011
Portugal
Speaker
Klinger, Kevin
―Elevating the Art of Residential
Design & Practice‖
Custom Residential
Architect Network
(CRAN)
2011
Presentation
Klinger, Kevin
―Digispeak: An Illustrated Guide
to Digital Architecture Design
Terms‖
Routledge
2011
Contributor
Klinger, Kevin
―Integration through
Computation‖
ACADIA Annual
Conference
2011
Marlow, Chris
Making Games for
Environmental Design
Education: Revealing Landscape
Architecture
International of
Gaming and
Computer-Mediated
Simulations
Peer
Reviewed
Challenge of Providing
Affordable Social Housing for
Low Income Communities in
Developing countries
Ball State
University
Peer
Reviewed
Motloch, John
US Brazil Universities of the
Future Consortium
FIPSE-CAPES
Annual Consortium
Directors'' Meeting
in Florianapolis,
Brazil
Peer
Reviewed
Motloch, John
―Emergence of the New Global
Business Environment + Social
Business Behavior = Behavioral
Wedges
Green Energy
Economy
Conference,
Arlington, VA.
2011
Panelist
―West Washington St‖ – Studio
Book, UD Indianapolis Studio
Lulu Press Inc.
2011
Published
Naderi, Jodi
The Aesthetics of Pace and
Pause: Design of Walking
Environments
ECLAS Conference,
Sheffield, U.K.
Fall 2010
Abstract
Accepted Paper
presentation
Naderi, Jodi
End of the World Studio
CELA Conference,
ChampagneUrbana, Illinois
2012
Abstract
accepted –
Paper
presentation
Motloch, John
Race, B.
Bauer
Eggink, H.
Mounayar, M.
Perera, Nihal
Tang, WingShing
The Transforming Asian City:
Impasse, Asianization,
Emergence Crossing Borders:
International Exchanges and
Planning Practices
Routledge
September
2012
Will be
published
Spatializing Politics: Culture and
Geography in Postcolonial Sri
Lanka
SAGE Publications
Pvt. Ltd
2009
Published
―West Washington St‖ – Studio
Book, UD Indianapolis Studio
Lulu Press Inc.
2011
Published
Silver, Mike
Advanced Composite
Fabrication Technologies for
Architecture
ACSA Conference,
Boston, MA
2012
Presenter
Smith, Les
The Soul of Aesthetics and
Ethics – Grounding a Design
Profession
ECLAS – The Art
of Landscape
Architecture,
Sheffield, U.K.
2011
Presented
Smith, Les
Polyark: CAP's Heritage in
Interdisciplinary Study Tours
CAP Alumni
Symposium
Fall 2010
Presented
Spodek,
Jonathon
US Delegate
UIA Conference,
Tokyo, Japan
2011
US.
Delegate for
Cultural
Heritage
Spodek,
Jonathon
Design-Build Educational
Studios: Urban Reinvestment
AIA National
Convention,
Washington, D.C.
2012
Presenter
Perera, Nihal
Race, B.
Eggink, H.
Mounayar, M.
This year we celebrate the addition of two important publications by our faculty:
Left: Visual Notes for Architects and Designers By Norman Crowe & Paul Laseau
Right: The Sustainable Site Handbook By Meg Calkins
In addition to previously mentioned scholarly work, the table below reflects resources
that are classified as scholarly work, but are not necessary funded (yet) lines of research
or projects in process.
Faculty
Member
Sustained lines of Research and Works in Progress
Angulo, A.
1) Distance education in Architecture High Education
2) Sustainable Eco-Resorts
3) Effectiveness of VIRTUAL SET visual-spatial simulations in the perception of
Architectural projects.
4) CAP VR Environment: Set-Up and Inter-Operability Procedures
Bilello, J.
1) Design for resilience – leading toward a course on the subject that will
include 12 case method classes on 12 natural and man-made disasters.
2) Creativity and risk management – studying the vexing relationship between
these two powerful vectors that pull architectural design practices in
opposite directions.
3) Open source (aka Crowdsourcing) implications for the future of architectural
practice
4) Creativity and risk management (field testing curriculum – Australia)
Chiuini, M.
1) Completing Santa Maria Antiqua in the Roman Forum Funding for
continuation of Digital Chicago Stock Exchange publication on digital
reconstruction monuments.
2) Solar Decathlon 2013
3) Digital art exhibition, Muncie, IN
Coggeshall, J.
1) Concrete Masonry Prototypes
2) Emerging Concrete Techniques
De Brea, A.
1) Editing process of the forthcoming book on Latin American Architecture.
Dotson, O.
1) Gary, Indiana: A Critical Geography of a Fourth World City – continued
research in preparation of dissertation of same title.
2) Chattel of the Dispossessed: The Legacy of Elizabeth Mantooth Starks a
Cherokee/Creek Freed person – book chapter
Eggink, H.
1) Charrette communications in Urban Design
2) The De Kalb County Hospital Charrette
3)“From Visual Memories” a paper for the upcoming DCA Conference
(abstract sent)
Gray, T.
1) Chapter for book “Architecture and Performance” – Chapter title; “Salvaged
Layers; A Collaborative Site Specific Performance.
2) “Couched Construction” / TURF traveling exhibition participant –
invited/juried Gallery installations and publications
3) “Salvaged Layers; a Collaborative Site Specific Performance” book chapter
Grondzik, W.
1) High-Performance Buildings; with a focus on addressing high-performance in
the architecture curriculum and on the Solar Decathlon as an example of
high-performance.
2) Commissioning the 2013 Ball State Solar Decathlon project
Harwood, P.
1) Learning Environments
Janz, W.
1)
2)
3)
4)
small architecture BIG LANDSCAPES (show with lecture)
Cu ration of the Couched Constructions
Curating Couched Construction show at Herron
Building a house and a timber pallet garage
Keddy, K.
1) Disaster Healthcare; Transforming public buildings into medical facilities
after the Halifax Explosion of 1917.
2) Disaster Healthcare; Transforming public buildings into medical facilities
after the Halifax Explosion of 1917.
3) An analysis of design for the disabled
Kendall, S.
1) Infill Systems technical, code and market research
2) Department of Defense “Healthcare Facilities Design for Flexibility”
Klinger, K.
Middleton, D.
1) Digital design and fabrication
1) Alignment and Design Coherence in C. A. Doxiadis and Kenzo Tange’s Urban
Plans for Skopje Macedonia, 1964
2) Informational and Social Affordances in Dynamic Library Settings: A spatial
configuration analysis of Georgia Tech Library Commons, Georgia Tech
Clough Commons, Ball State Library.
3) Instrumental Restitching and Perceptual Rotation: Spatial Recalibration
Strategies for Monumental Parks in Historic Cities
Silver, M.
1) The Ultra-Green Prefab House: Robotic Construction with Advanced BioComposites.
2) Informatics: Information Theory, Computation and Building Design
3) B-SUMA (BSU Museum of Contemporary Art): Using Smart Phone
Technology as a Digital Fabrication Tool for Masonry Structures.
4) Middle APPs: Collaboration based Software development for Architects.
Spodek, J.
1) Muncie’s Old West End, a focus area of ecoREHAB as Community Housing
Development Organization
Swartz, A.
1) Photography: point of view, pattern, space
2) Photographic documentation of Muncie blight
Vermillion, J.
Wolner, T.
1) “Integrating Humanoid robot in construction “
2) “Digital design and fabrication training/teaching/learning”
1) research on Chicago skyscrapers in newspapers with readerships in different
socio-economic classes; drafting a chapter in Skyscraper Romances on the
Medinah Athletic Club
2) Skyscraper Romances: The Tribune Tower, the Chrysler and Chanin Buildings
D
Objective
. Recognize scholarship of discovery, integration, application, and teaching with implementation
defined at the department level.
In the Spring CAP faculty meeting of January 12, 2012, we conducted a polling session
using iclickers to determine what is our group aspiration in terms of scholarship? Many
of our faculty assumed that scholarship of teaching was going to be clearly the most
popular path for scholarship among our faculty and that scholarship of discovery was
probably the least common. The results were somewhat surprising:
Scholarship of Discovery
Scholarship of Integration
Scholarship of Application
Scholarship of Teaching
29%
12%
41%
18%
It was also noted that most of the faculty present at the meeting where in support of
looking into the possibility of making use of external peer review letters in tenure and
promotion to associate rank.
Strongly Disagree
Disagree
Somewhat Agree
Agree
Strongly Agree
18%
00%
24%
41%
18%
Based on the results of the polling session we are seriously looking at ways in which
professional practice may be subject of peer review in Promotion and Tenure processes.
Objective
E. Grow selected graduate programs to support increased scholarship.
Master-level professional programs with nested graduate certificate programs have great
potential to inform and be informed by growth in faculty scholarship.
-Development and Growth of Master-Level Programs in Indianapolis
We have great potential for graduate-level recruitment in Indianapolis. Our initial
assessment is that Indianapolis can support at least in some measure all our master-level
professional programs in executive format at the same time that provides our faculty with
direct access to an ―Urban Laboratory‖ that can inform their scholarship. Our Master of
Urban Design Program in Indianapolis is a good example that we would like to replicate.
-Development Non-Residential Doctoral (PhD) Degree in the Built Environment.
A Doctoral Degree Program is without doubt the most effective way of supporting the
scholarship of our faculty. We probably have a great opportunity to develop a Doctoral
Program limited exclusively to the areas of expertise of our faculty and attracting on a
non-residential basis the tenure-track faculty of our peer institutions. This potential
initiative continues in hibernation
Objective
F. Attract and retain highly productive faculty of national prominence.
In the 2011-12 academic year we have been joined by an outstanding group of tenuretrack faculty distributes through all the departments of the college, we were also able to
attract the visit of 3 extremely gifted scholars that came to enrich our teaching/learning
environment.
Deborah Middleton (AR) was appointed Assistant Professor in the
Department of Architecture. Deborah is the first woman to complete a
dissertation on the Urban Design History of Saudi Arabia, and has
consulted with the High Commission of Arriyadh on contemporary
urban planning strategies. She is recognized as an authority on cultural
contexts of Architecture and Urban Design for Islamic and Arabian
cultures.
Simon Bussiere (LA), was appointed Assistant Professor in the
Department of Landscape Architecture. Simon‘s current research
explores the latent potential for soft infrastructure in the development of
productive landscapes in informal communities, and areas of conflict along
the world‘s political equator.
Junfeng Jiao (UP), was appointed Assistant Professor in the
Department of Urban Planning. In addition to his CAP service, he is also
a Emerging Media Research Fellow in the Center for Media Design. Jiao
has extenisve experience in evaluating the food environment and food
deserts using GIS, GPS, 3D Modeling and Smartphone applications.
Visiting Faculty / Scholars
Michael Silver (AR) was appointed the inaugural Design Innovation Fellow
in the department of architecture for AY2011-12. During his visiting
appointment, Silver has delivered design studios focused on Composite
Fiber technologies and robotic applications in architecture. He has also
developed extramural funding applications in collaboration with other
faculty members that are currently under review.
Harlow Landphair (LA) The faculty Fellow program in DoLA gives all
students access to expertise in the field of landscape architecture and facilitates
a distinctive and unique contributions to the field with student and faculty
engagement. Dr. Landphair engaged in a full complement of courses in the
Construction sequence and in the Design studios. Dr. Landphair is known
nationally for his research in soils and storm water processes related to
transportation landscape and has built up a multi-million dollar research facility
in Texas. Outside of his teaching load, Dr. Landphair worked on developing
and delivering course material in advanced construction including a
construction elective in design with light and water. Dr. Harlow Landphair
Worked with Meg Calkins, Chris Marlow and John Motloch and contract
faculty Susan Tomizawa in the content of our highly reputed
construction program. He also gave a web-cast lecture on the role of
research in the field of landscape architecture practice and knowledge
creation. Dr. Landphair is interested in developing on line course
materials in the advanced engineering content to increase DoLa faculty
capacity to offer technical program through distance learning, expanding
accessibility of the course to non-traditional students.
Dr. Burcu Yigit Turan (LA) was hired from Turkey after completing her PhD
in landscape architectural theory from ETH in Vienna, Austria. She taught in
the Research Methods sequence and offered courses in contemporary Urban
Landscape practices in public space. While here, she published two papers
and attended four national conferences presenting her work as a member of the
Ball State faculty. Dr. Yigit-Turan's rigor as a European research scientist
brought a fresh perspective to the graduate program faculty and increased
needed diversity in the department.
Megan Tuttle was hired as a part-time instructor within the Department of
Urban Planning. Tuttle is already a five year veteran of the CAP. She
completed her undergraduate degree in Urban Planning here in 2010 and
immediately went on to pursue the Fast-track MURP degree. This year she
worked with Lisa Dunaway in the PLAN 302 Neighborhood studio to put
together a neighborhood plan for the Whitely Community Council and its
residents.
GOAL 3EMENT
The College of Architecture and Planning will address local, state, national, and international needs through
activities that foster collaboration and mutually beneficial relationships with its diverse constituents.
A
Objective
. Foster and support activities of faculty, staff, and students that have the potential to lead to
enterprising ventures.
-Solar Decathlon: CAP students will work with their peers from the University of
Louisville and University of Kentucky to build the nation's best solar-powered house in
the 2013 Solar Decathlon sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy.
Team Kentuckiana is one of 20 international groups which were selected to showcase
solar-powered houses in fall 2013. Ball State's team represents students from the
university's Colleges of Architecture and Planning and Applied Sciences and
Technology. The team will be mentored by architecture professors Michele Chiuini and
Walter Grondzik.
Solar Decathlon 2013 will be held at the Orange County Great Park – a new venue noted for its emphasis
on sustainability.
Two graduate Landscape Architecture student‘s final creative projects have led to the
creation of new business opportunities in development of outdoor learning centers and
urban agriculture sites. Several students are showing interest in engaging in nontraditional practice, starting their own businesses or working for businesses that are not in
landscape architecture. This trend is indicative of extreme design thinking outside the
silo of the discipline. Exploitation of this trend led to requests from students in the Pro
Practice class to have lectures dedicated to grant-writing and staring NGO.
At the same time, undergraduate students are following strongly in the footsteps of
design-build, but even that has leanings towards the more innovative design-buildoperate related to sustainable practice. Design Week fall 2012 will explore these new
practice foci in a concentrated format fostering innovation of new ideas.
-Building International Alliances: The Department of Urban Planning and Wuhan
University in China are in discussions to develop a memorandum of understanding
between the two departments. The goal is to allow students in the five-year program at
Wuhan U to do their first three years in Wuhan and then complete their bachelor‘s degree
at Ball State University and received a BUPD. We are hoping to have this MOU endorsed
by both departments in the next couple of months.
Also, Professor Scott Truex and John Motloch visited the Department of Planning in
the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana, during spring break.
They held discussions with faculty in the department to promote bilateral programs
between our two departments in the areas of teaching and research.
-Support of Non-Profit Enterprising Ventures. A good example can be found in the
continuing activities of Professor Jonathan Spodek (AR) in “ecoREHAB”. The
program calls for proactive interventions in which Ball State students and faculty work
with the Muncie community in the rehabilitation of the residential stock of Muncie. CAP
has now completed two successful ecoREHAB projects and will begin their third project
at 511 W. Main Street in Muncie very soon. This program is gaining national attention
from AIA and the National Parks Service. On May 24, Jonathan Spodek, accepted the
2012 Mary Frances Abel Award from the Muncie Historic Preservation & Rehabilitation
Commission.
B
Objective . Offer market-responsive educational, cultural, and economic development programs that
meet the needs of external partners.
-Executive MLA. To facilitate perpetual learning in the community, this course will
follow the program requirements of the MLA II but will be reorganized into a hybrid of
intensive workshops and self-paced delivery on the web. Specifically shaped to allow
advanced specialty studies and immersive learning opportunities, the courses will provide
professionals and students from other universities with access to advanced training in
specialty areas including sustainability and health. It is anticipated that the venues in
Indianapolis will be used for meetings and workshops associated with course work and
are expected to have the first two courses on line by summer 2012.
-Certificate in Landscape Studies. To achieve global impact without borders, this
certificate is intended to introduce people interested in the field of landscape architecture to the
medium of landscape design and to the studio culture. Two or three courses will be offered
during a summer workshop framework. The primary market will include the Latin American
architecture and planning schools south of the border. Course work will include studio work, online and immersive work in the field. This outcome will promote the field of study as well as
generate accessibility to content in a population which currently is underserved in this area.
C
Objective
. Expand the success and reach of Ball State‘s Building Better Communities (BBC) initiative,
dedicated to expanding economic opportunities and advancing quality of life in communities across Indiana.
Refer to annual report provided by BBC at www.bsu.edu/bbc.
Students from a variety of disciplines worked with selected charter schools in Indiana to
research best practices and high performance school design. Their goal was to develop
ways to incorporate environmentally sustainable strategies into the planning and design
of charter school buildings. This project consisted of developing solutions for both new
construction and the adaptive reuse of existing buildings. Students were also involved in
traveling to the schools, interviewing charter school students and faculty, discussing and
presenting ideas to school administration and board members, contributing to school
profiles and examining curriculum, funding, and facility planning.
-Community Land Trust (CLT) – In an effort to contribute to building healthy
sustainable neighborhoods in Muncie, Michael Burayidi, Chair of the Department of
Urban Planning is holding several meetings with community leaders with the objective of
establishing a community land trust (CLT) for Delaware County. This will be a non-
profit organization, whose objective is to (re)develop land and abandoned property into
permanent affordable housing for low and moderate income (LMI) residents in the area.
The mission of the CLT will be that of providing programs to support strong, vital and
sustainable neighborhoods through the development and stewardship of permanently
affordable homes to low and moderate income households in its service area. When
formed it will provide an opportunity for all of us in CAP to act out our professions in
design, planning, and landscape architecture and contribute to the quality of life in our
communities.
D
Objective
. Lead Indiana in authorizing charter schools and be the premier resource supporting
the success of all charter schools.
With a grant from the Business Fellows Program, Associate Professor Pamela Harwood
continues to offer an immersive learning experience on the subject of charter schools; the
work of her students has been exhibited and written about in the newspapers of several
Indiana communities. Her initial success resulted in a three-year funding stream that has
continued to make her work possible.
Adaptive Reuse in Charter School
John Motloch's FIPSE grant focuses on increasing international engagement in
sustainable education through a student exchange program with multiple universities in
the US and Brazil. Dr. Motloch is engaged in the US Brazil Universities of the Future
Consortium through the Department of Education Fund for the improvement of postsecondary Education. He is also working on a grant from the Canadian government
linking Windsor Canada to Muncie, Indiana and Monterrey, Mexico in a three-part
inquiry regarding the effect of the automobile industry on urban form.
Where feasible, LA faculty are being loaded with enhanced course development support
to begin converting their course delivery to hybrid on-line access using a higher degree of
online course materials. Simon Bussiere, Chris Marlow, Meg Calkins, Joe Blalock, Carla
Corbin and Martha Hunt have all expressed interest in taking up this challenge in the
2012/2013 academic year. These materials provide the non-traditional student with
access to aspects of the curriculum. The survey indicated that the market for the course
work was not tied to acquiring a certificate, but rather advanced knowledge and/or a
degree.
Les Smith and Malcolm Cairns maintain leadership roles in the Indiana State Board of
Professional Regulation and in the national American Society of Landscape Architecture.
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Objective . Provide working professionals in Indianapolis access to professional development through
graduate programs, skill enhancements, and facility access.
CAP:IC facilitated a stakeholder brainstorming charrette in early March and is proud to
bring ―crowdsourcing‖ to Indianapolis during the month of April to gather ideas. If
you‘re familiar with the Pepsi Refresh Project, you know what crowdsourcing is. If not,
it‘s essentially a web-based system of posting ideas and gathering feedback on those
ideas through votes and comments. All of the ideas from the charrette have been posted
online, and the system is now open for anyone and everyone to submit their ideas for
reconnecting people, and the neighborhoods they live in, to our waterways. CAP students
are welcome and encouraged to submit ideas, from simple to complex, by visiting
www.ourwaterways.org. The crowdsourcing element is live through May 1st.While the
initiative continues to evolve, we anticipate additional opportunities for student and
faculty engagement in the coming years.
Brainstorming charrette held at CAP:IC
Increasing the technical transfer capacity of the curriculum in the domain of sustainability
and construction implementation has been a critical focus of curricula development in
both the construction sequence and the course offerings in the sustainability minor. A
fourth course in the construction sequence was approved by the faculty this year with
content to be finalized in 2012/2013.
The primary interest in professional development coursework is in digital communication
techniques, sustainability and advanced construction technology according to input from
students and alumni. This was confirmed in the landscape architecture interest survey of
professionals in Indianapolis. Dr. John Motloch was assigned loading to integrate and
update sustainability content of the courses in the construction sequence. He conducted a
survey of learning outcomes in the sustainability content. As a result, improved content
was implemented this year generating an advanced integration of sustainability in
grading, drainage and advanced storm water technologies. These courses along with
other electives in the program are being hybridized into offerings on line in 2012/2013.
GOAL 4UNITY
The College of Architecture and Planning will improve the university community’s quality of life.
Objective
A. Increase student, staff, faculty, and family participation in a coordinated wellness program.
We believe that for wellness to be a sustainable pattern it needs to become part of our life
style. At CAP we are very aware of the intersection between wellness and environmental
sustainability and believe that we are called to provide leadership in how our physical,
intellectual and emotional environments can help sustain wellness.
In the fall of 2011 additional bike racks were installed at multiple points surrounding
CAP. Our students, faculty, and staff, practicing sustainability, often ride to class,
creating a larger demand for additional racks.
Our student organizations often organize healthy activities as breaks from their intensive
studio hours. In addition, our faculty has created interesting, collaborative projects
bringing students together in a marriage of healthy and special awareness.
Left photo: CAP Students playing flag football during Applefest – held by ASLA
Middle: Additional bike rack installed to handle demand of students.
Left: CAP and Dance students collaborate to explore their space.
Objective
B. Create a service-oriented campus culture in all units.
The Faculty and Students of CAP participate in a number of service-oriented programs.
The following programs have been active during the 2010-11 academic year:
-Community Based Projects,
-Habitat for Humanity, and
-Freedom by Design:
CAP has a long tradition of service that our students proudly embrace and share with the
campus community.
Objective
C. Achieve greater success and recognition in extramural athletics and academic competitions.
Our students are constantly engaged in design and planning competitions in which they
frequently achieve substantial recognition.
Competing in the 2011 Indiana Chapter of American Society of Landscape Architects
annual Student Design Awards program, Ball State students swept the awards! The
following submissions were honored.
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Productive Community: Muncie‘s Main Street – Dane Carlson (German Cruz, Simon
Bussiere, Malcolm Cairns faculty)
The Mormon Beater Haypress – Kevin Henn (Chris Baas, faculty)
Wind, Water, Sun and Humanity: A Case Study of Sustainable Infrastructure in the
21st Century – Keenan Gibbons (Joe Blalock, faculty)
Redefining the Stereotypical Playground: A Park Design for New Bremen, OH –
Andrea Borkowski (Martha Hunt, faculty)
Hanna and Silver Creek Watersheds Study – Group Project Submittal with Amy
LaTomme, Ned Brockmeyer, Lauren Brown, Erin Busch, Katie Chase, He Hong,
Brett Jackson, Hyunja Kim, Sameera Rao, Keith Sattler, Shuping Yu, Jing Zhang
(Chris Baas faculty for Graduate Regional Planning Studio 604)
Students received their awards from INASLA during their annual meeting held on
October 14, 2011.
Dane Carlson, a 2011 Landscape Architecture graduate, was the winner of the 2011
American Society of Landscape Architects Student Honor Award in the General Design
Category. His entry titled, Reclaiming the Shoreline: Redefining Indiana’s Lake
Michigan Coast drew this response from a Jury member, ―The entrant deftly revitalizes a
neglected area without denying its heritage. It‘s an amazing project in and of itself, but
particularly impressive that it‘s an undergraduate work. Fabulous.‖ Dane‘s faculty
advisor for the project was Meg Calkins.
Patrick Stout, a 2011 graduate of the Landscape Architecture Department, was the winner
of a 2011 Indiana Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects Student
Design Honor Award. His entry was titled Wayne Center Innovation Park. Chris Marlow
was his faculty advisor on this project.
Patrick Stout’s Wayne Center Innovation Park
Efforts in the Department of Landscape Architecture that began in 2004 to bring to reality
the John M. Craddock Wetland Nature Preserve (JMCWNP) through an immersive
design build effort by students and Flatland Resources, LLC, have been rewarded with
the Robert H. and Ester L. Cooper Conservation Award by the Robert Cooper Audubon
Society.
The Robert Cooper Audubon Society is an Indiana district chapter of the Audubon
Society, serving seven East Central Indiana Counties, including Delaware County. The
Robert H. and Ester L. Cooper Conservation Award is the highest award designated each
year by the Cooper Audubon Society members. The award recognizes an outstanding
habitat restoration and environmental conservation/education service project in the seven
county area.
The University gives special recognition to students who are excellent writers. There are
only 16 winners from the entire University, and this year three of those awards went to
our BLA 5th year students Kelsey Englert, Mark Sandberg and Brian Main. Professor
Gerry Strecker with the Department of English was instrumental in assisting these
students above and beyond regular class time to achieve this outcome.
The Ball State Student Symposium, held in the spring, attracts students from across the
University. Greta Petersen and Dan Buis won two of the University awards for their
engaging and compelling presentation and project. There were close to 160 entrants - all
competing for six awards.
Professor Les Smith has been honored by the Ball State University Council with the Environment Exemplar Award this year. This award recognizes his significant contribution
to our environment through the multiple activities he engages in during his design-build
class.
Nick Serrano, MLA graduate, had his paper ―On Landscape Beauty: Aesthetics and
Plants in Landscape Architecture‖ accepted for presentation during the March CELA
conference held in Champaign, Illinois.
Architecture graduate students Michela Cupello and Wes Stabs, who together make up
MCWS, won the U.S. Green Building Council Multifamily Midrise Design Competition
sponsored by Autodesk. This is a national competition open to professionals. Cupello and
Stabs worked this past summer with Professor Bob Koester as their critic/advisor in the
development of their entry. They were invited to be recognized on the Residential
Summit Plenary stage at Greenbuild, Toronto, on October 6.
MCWS design site located in the 1300 block of Oretha C. Haley Boulevard between Thalia Street and Erato Street in
New Orleans.
Indiana Governor, Mitch Daniels, named Michael T. Miller, an architecture and political
science major from Elkhart, Indiana, to a two-year term as the student representative on
the Board of Trustees at Ball State University.
It has been noted that the growing number of internal design competitions (i.e. ICMA
Competition, CRIPE Competition, etc.) in which our students participate is creating a
very competitive culture that shows when they compete in extramural events.
In 2011-12, the Department of Architecture has secured new/upgraded donations to
support the teaching mission.
- Estopinal Group Architectural Competition 2012 winners include Fabiola Shifflet,
Rochelle Jansing, Lauren Sherman, Heidi Stewart, James Montesano, Michael Downs,
Michael Gastineau, and Andrew Brindley.
-The Estopinal Group Master’s Project Endowed Prize will provide $1500 per year in
perpetuity to three meritorious final projects in the Master of Architecture program. Mo
Han, James DeChant and Jonathan Kirby were this year‘s winners.
-The Cripe Engineers and Architects Capstone Competition will provide $25,000
from 2011-16 to fund a capstone design competition at the fourth year level. The twostage competition will involve nearly 75 senior students and adjudicated by external
jurors. Winners include Nicole Miller, Justin Gross, Madeline Toth, Kate Werner, Glenn
Cramer, Stephen Flynn, Robert Gordon, Taylor Metcalf and Matthew Wild.
Indiana Concrete Masonry Association (ICMA) Student Design Competition
winners were Yangchun Wu; Maxwell Wurster; John Campbell; Kyle Goebel; Bailey
Stultz; Morganne Walker; Nathaniel Capaccio; Austin Haag and Adam Nault.
ACSA Beauty Pageant Competition winner (Faculty Mahesh Daas) for An
Inconvenient Studio project ―Morpholuminescence,‖ Students: Elizabeth Boone, Adam
Buente, Kyle Perry, Eric Brockemeyer
ACSA Event Space video competition Honorable Mention Prize (Faculty Mahesh
Daas) for Woven Topographies project in ARCH 598: The Unclass. Teleplex staff:
Dottie Krepes edited the video. Sam Clemmons, Keith Huffman, Sarah Kreps, Sharolyn
Waters, Rob Rickner, Dave Kaufman, and Paul Weller, were the technical staff, and
James Whiteman helped us with the live stream.
James DeChant‘S Masters Project has won second place in the suckerPUNCH
international competition. His advisors were Michael Silver and Andrea Swartz.
Architecture students receiving recognitions for their meritorious participation in
internal design competitions sponsored by industrial partners.
Left: CRIPE Architects + Engineers Competition
Right: Winning Model by Nicole Miller, photo credit to
John Widdifield, JFW Photography
2012 ICMA Winners
CAP students continuously seek out competition whether in design or academic
challenges. The following is a list of scholarships CAP students were granted in 201112.
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Alpha Rho Chi Award Medal = undergraduate Nicole Miller
Alpha Rho Chi Award Medal = graduate James DeChant
American Institute of Architects Henry Adams Medal = Wesley Stabs
American Institute of Architects Henry Adams Certificate of Merit = Salil Nair
ARCC King Research Medal = Michela Cupello
Glen SABADOS Memorial Scholarship = Andrew Calbert $1,000; Adam Nault
$1,000; Grant Reed $1,000; Morganne Walker $1,000.
 Indiana Architectural Foundation Scholarship = Courtney Basile $1,000; Bryan
Beerman $3,000; Marlee Brabin $1,000; James DeChant $1,000; Thomas Friddle
$1,000; Michael Gastineau $1,000; Jordan Inman $1,000; Jonathan Kirby $1,000;
Christopher Reinhart $3,000; Joshua Stowers $1,000; Matthew Wild $1,000.
 Merit Fellowship = Leslie Perrigo; Joshua Stowers
 Sigma Pi Kappa inductees = Janette Amstutz; Kyle Boot; Anya Grahn; Emily
Husted; Kelli Kellerhals; Amy Marisavljevic; Maianne Preble; Aimee Sunny;
Emily Weiler.
 Udall Scholarship = Christopher Reinhart $5,000.
 Lickety Split Scholarship winner was Rachel Martinelli.
 Dave and Mandira Kar-Schoen Outstanding Student Award Undergraduate
recipient was Bithia Ratnasamy and graduate winner was Robert Wertman.
 American Institute Certified Planners (AICP) Outstanding Student Award winner
for Undergraduate was Claire Thomison and Graduate was Patrick Ainsworth.
 The Jennifer Nicole Pokorny Memorial Scholarship was Kayla Lutz.
 Rundell Ernstberger Associates Scholarship recipient is Nathan Deig.
 The 2011-12 Garden Club of Indiana Scholarship Recipients are Katie Chase,
Greta, Peterson, Brett Jackson, Hans Rasmussen, Brennan Maher, and Cassie
Rice.
 The Olmsted Scholar Fellowship Nominee is Peter Ellery.
 Graduate Merit Fellowship in Landscape Architecture went to Peter Ellery and
Yiding Wang.
 Sardis Expedition Award recipient is Hilary Buskirk.
 Ball State Student Symposium - Greta Peterson and Dan Buis.
 The Environmental Design Research Association - Amy LaTomme.
 CELA awards went to Sameera Rao and Nick Serrano.
 Historic American Landscape Survey National Park Service - Second Place: Bush
Stadium, Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana
 Historians: Ball State Team
Students
Kyle J. Boot Brian Grover
Austin Blomeke Eric James
Ethan Coverstone Ashley Williams
Benjamin Doane
Faculty Advisors
Christopher Baas, Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture
Geralyn M. Strecker, Assistant Professor, Department of English
Dave and Mandira Kar-Schoen Outstanding Student Award
Undergraduate – Bithia Ratnasamy, presented by Francis Parker
Environmental Design Research Association presented
to Amy LaTomme by Jodi Rosenblatt Naderi
Every year, the College of Architecture and Planning holds a design competition for the
graduation stoles. Graduates are allowed to vote for their favorites. The 2012 Stole
Graphic Competition Winner was Brian Watson.
Brian Watson’s winning stole competition design.
It is not a secret that CAP students and faculty are highly competitive. They thrive on the
rush of creativity which occurs in those situations and enjoy viewing the outcomes. We
have provided many scholarly examples of this. Below we would like to share results
which are more on the fun side, as organized by the student organization - the Associated
Students for Historic Preservation‘s (ASHP) CAP Photo contest.
ASHP received over 160 photos which were submitted in 8 different categories. The top
three winners were: 1st Place: Justin Nicol, 2nd Place: Jaren Cooley, and Third Place
Vera Adams. Category winners were: Best Architecture: Kevin Templeman; Best
Landscape/Nature: Daniel Potash; Best Pet: Duncan Campell; Best Candid Studio
Moment: Andrew Calbert; Best Field Trip Week: Kayla Fieldhouse; Best People: Katie
Werner; Best Interior: Andrea Lee; and a Create Your Own Category: Kelli Kellerhals.
Dean‘s Choice went to Andre Haffenden and Associate Dean‘s Choice went to Emily
Weiler.
Photo shows some of the student winners of the ASHP photo contest.
Student organizations play a vital role in the family genetics of the CAP. Continuing on
our competition theme but showing a different twist, the American Society of Landscape
Architects (ASLA), hosted several competitions this year, including flag football, Corn
Hole tournament, T-shirt design competition, pie eating contest (won by Brennan Maher)
and bake-off (won by Greta Peterson).
Contestant in the pie eating contest held by ASLA
Cindy McHone and Malcolm Cairns cut and serve pie.
The American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) held CAP‘s Got Talent,
showcasing student‘s talents as escape artists, comedians, musicians, painters, Irish
dancers, and hand walkers. Nicole Miller, fourth-year Architecture student, won the
competition with her piano talent by playing "March of the Dwarves".
Maddie Toth performing her Irish dance.
Craig Genet shows his talent for hand walking.
When our student organizations and faculty aren‘t busy competing, many of them are
helping out communities. In addition to the immersive and service learning the CAP
does year long, we present the following examples of our involvement and outreach to
communities.
The National Organization of Minority Architecture Students (NOMAS) encouraged and
empowered themselves and other students and professionals by reaching out in a
collaborative effort to benefit the surrounding community. This year, they worked with
Muncie Southside High School students tutoring, providing valuable college information,
tours around class, and other fun activities to get the students involved in planning for
their future. NOMAS also sponsored numerous events to renovate and relocate the
Multicultural Center. At a charrette, students provided over 70 innovative, creative, and
realistic designs to make the Multicultural Center a focal point in the Ball State
community. Also, members of NOMAS collected monetary donations and canned food
items for the tornado victims in Henryville, Indiana.
Students from Freedom by Design (FBD) made local news when Muncie‘s Star Press
featured their work in an article. FBD students teamed up with the City of Muncie to
restore the pool house at Tuhey Pool. The historic building, originally built in 1934 by
the Civil Works Administration, needed restored so it could be used as a concession
stand, showers, and locker space. Members of FBD helped restore the portico on the front
of the building. FBD students also planned the addition of a handicap ramp. Our first year
Masters of Historic Preservation students, assisted by creating a National Register
nomination for the structure, which allowed Muncie to apply for valuable grants needed
to help restore the building.
The Associated Students for Historic Preservation (ASHP) worked with the City of
Muncie and other volunteers to help clean-up and board up abandoned properties
along Main Street and Adams Street in the Old West End Historic District. Two separate
clean up dates helped remove trash, broken glass, and unwanted vegetation from the
yards surrounding the properties as well as boarding up windows and doors on the
historic homes. These efforts help increase safety in the neighborhood as well as
improves curb appeal to help Muncie keep its historic character.
-Faculty and Alumni Competition Awards and Recognitions
The CAP faculty and staff are consistently recognized within their professionals; winning
a variety of accolades.
The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) has recognized Professor
Mahesh Daas, Chair of the Department of Architecture at Ball State University, with the
2011-2012 ACSA Distinguished Professor Award. Each year, the ACSA honors an
outstanding individual who has sustained creative achievement in the advancement of
architectural education through teaching, design, scholarship, research, or service.
Recipients become Fellows of the College of Distinguished Professors of Architecture
and may use the title ―ACSA Distinguished Professor, DPACSA‖ in perpetuity.
Mahesh Daas receiving the ACSA Distinguished Professor Award.
Associate Professor of Practice Bruce A. Race was selected as a Fellow of the American
Institute of Certified Planners (AICP). Fellows of AICP are honored in recognition of the
achievements of the planner as an individual, elevating the Fellow before the public and
the profession as a model planner who has made significant contributions to planning and
society. Fellowship is granted to planners who have been members of AICP and have
achieved excellence in professional practice, teaching and mentoring, research, public
and community service, and leadership. Those chosen become members of the College of
Fellows. This is one of the highest honors that the AICP can bestow upon a member.
Induction took place in a special ceremony at the national conference of the American
Planning Association in Los Angeles.
In addition, Race was selected to receive the Indiana Chapter of the American Planning
Association‘s Planning Sagamore Award. The award is intended to recognize individual
accomplishment and to single out the recipient ―as a model planner before the public and
the planning profession.
Joe Bilello - (National) California Certification as disaster assistance professional (State
& Regional) Minnetrista Board of Trustees service award recognition-completing nine
years on the board of the most important cultural center in East Central Indiana Indiana
Homeland Security certification – Disaster Assistance professional (University)
Benefacta – in recognition of contribution to BSU‘s research mission through grant
related research work; Provost‘ Prize Jury.
Josh Coggeshall - (National) 2011 EcoHome Design Merit Award from EcoHome
Magazine, a magazine of the AIA, ―25‖ Street Residence‖; INPUT/OUTPUT
SYMPOSIUM ―Radiance‖, ARCH 601/602 (www.projectione.com) Final Project
Advisor: Delivered by Eric Brockmeyer, Temple University, Philadelphia PA; Architect
Magazine, R+D invited Symposium ―Bit Maps‖, ARCH 601/602 (www.projectione.com)
Final Project Advisor; delivered by Kyle Perry, Trump Hotel, Chicago IL – SEPT 2011
(State & Regional) 2011 AIA Indy Excellence Merit Award from the Indianapolis
Chapter of American Institute of Architects, ―Tuna Canyon Residence‖.
Pam Harwood - (National) Best Home: Jacobs Residence – awarded by the Indiana
Concrete Association (ICA).
Jonathon Spodek - (National) One of 11 architects selected by AIA National President
Clark Manus to be a US delegate to the 2011 Union of International Architects (UIA)
Congress and Assembly in Tokyo, Japan. Selected based on expertise in the area of
Cultural Heritage and Conservation. (University) 2011 Green Initiative Award, Ball
State University; Council on the Environment for work with ecoREHAB initiative.
Andrea Swartz -(National) Louisville National Juried Photography Show &
Competition, Louisville, CO – first place, black and white (still life, flora, abstract) (State
& Regional) Richmond Art Museum Annual Juried Show, Richmond, IN – US Bank
Merit Award.
Josh Vermillion -(International) Student work from ARCH 582 selected as finalist in
FLATCUT 2011 Deign + Fabrication Competition and shown in peer-reviewed
exhibition at the ACADIA 2011 Conference, Univ. of Calgary.
Joe Frost, (MSHP ‗10), is the new Community Preservation Specialist for
Indiana Landmarks‘ Eastern Regional office. He will oversee operations at the recently
opened National Road Heritage Site at the Huddleson Farmhouse.
Angela L. Gidley, (BUPD ‘05), is a new associate at Parr Richey Obremskey Frandsen
and Patterson. Gidley will concentrate her practice in the areas of utility law and
business and employment law. She is admitted to practice law in the State of Indiana and
the Federal District Court for both the Northern District of Indiana and the Southern
District of Indiana and is a member of the American Bar Association and the Indiana
State Bar Association, as well as several local bar associations. Gidley graduated magna
cum laude from Indiana University School of Law in Indianapolis in 2010.
J.P. Hall, (MSHP ‘09) is a new member of the CAP Alumni board. J.P. was chosen to
replace Carol Ann Schweikert. J.P. is the Eastern Regional Director for Indiana
Landmarks.
Debra Kunce, FAIA, (BArch ‗93) serves as the Ohio Valley Regional Director on the
AIA National Board and will serve as one of two National Vice Presidents starting
January 2012. Debra was recently elevated to the AIA College of Fellows and was
recognized in 2011 by ENR Midwest Magazine as one of 20 Outstanding Professionals
Under 40.
John Marron, (MURP ‘09), has become a Policy Analyst at Indiana
University in the Public Policy Institute.
Rachel Minnery, AIA, LEED AP, (BArch ‘98) was an AIA delegate at UIA 2011 in
Tokyo. She served as chair of the national AIA‘s Disaster Assistance Advisory Group.
The Cornerstone Landscape Group (TCLG) in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, received a merit
award from the Indiana Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects for
their design of the Brinneman Residence. Tim Pancake (BLA ‘94) is President for
TCLG.
Rose Scovel, (BUPD ‗96), is a Program Manager for the Indiana Association for
Community Economic Development.
Jessica Stanley, (BLA ‘04), has joined GAP Architectural Products Inc. as the
Landscape Forms' South Florida representative.
Linda Keane, AIA (SAIC), (BArch ‗78), lead the creation of the third accredited
MARCH program in the City of Chicago, granted initial accreditation in 2011. In
addition, she is the director of NEXT.cc, and is working with middle school teachers in
LaCrosse, Wisconsin to support the first project-based design middle school in the United
States. Linda and Mark Keane introduced specific NEXT.cc journeys on earth, air, water,
mapping, design thinking, design process, and design making to support
place based STEAM projects. In addition, Linda and Mark Keane, as STUDIO 1032, a
collaborative environmental planning team, have been awarded an APA American
Planning Association, 2011 WI Planning Award, for their contribution to Milwaukee‘s
North East Side Plan.
Cynthia Bowen, AICP, LEED AP, (BUPD ‘96) was re-elected to the Board
of Directors of the National American Planning Association representing Region 4. She
will be one of 13 members on the APA Board of Directors responsible for setting the
association‘s policy direction and strategic goals.
Dean Illingworth, FAIA, (BArch ‘74), was named Building Law Compliance Officer by
the Indiana Department of Homeland Security.
Katie Clark (BLA '02) with RW Armstrong is President - Elect for INASLA.
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Objective
. Increase diversity of student, faculty, and staff populations and enhance the climate
supporting diversity.
Professor Michael Burayidi has coordinated a substantial number of college
receptions/tours for minority prospective students. The standard program for these visits
includes a welcome by the Dean or the Associate Dean, short presentations by the three
Department Chairs or Program Coordinators, and a tour of CAP facilities guided by a
current CAP student.
This semester, the Department of Urban Planning hosted Mohamed Yehiya, an urban
planner from Sri Lanka. Yehiya is the Director (chief) of the Urban Development
Authority in Sri Lanka (National Organization) for Hambantota District. His visit is
important because he comes from the district where the CapAsia group helped to build
new houses for tsunami survivors in 2005 and where the 2008 group studied post-tsunami
recovery. Yehiya is also an elected member of the Municipal Council.
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Objective . Plan and execute new construction and renovations of campus facilities to best support
learning, scholarship, institutional effectiveness, and quality of life.
New Virtual Reality Helmet
CAP, through support from BSU IT, is pleased to announce the arrival of a new
technology: the Virtual Reality Helmet. Imagine what you could learn by being able to
walk into your digital model and interact with your designed spaces. Using digital
models and some special software, the VR Helmet allows you and your clients to enter
the model and explore it. The VR Helmet makes this type of exploration possible
through the use of special equipment and cameras. The program monitors movements of
the user and reads 3D modeling software and creates a dialog between the user‘s actions
and various data points in the program. The video feed is then sent to the helmet,
allowing the wearer to feel like he or she is directly in the model.
Similar technology can also be found in Flight Simulations, Drivers Education, and even
Video Games. It is also being used to document landscapes, historic buildings, and even
archaeological sites. Second-year, MArch Graduate Student, Christopher Harrison used
this technology in his thesis topic. Chris graduated from Ball State in 2010 with a BArch
degree and has an assistantship through the Institute of Digital Intermedia Arts (IDIA).
He is investigating different ways to explore ―the next big thing in showing clients the
design.‖
This technology is far easier to read than floor plans and technical drawings. For his
thesis, Chris is designed a space and loaded it across three separate interfaces to see
which medium is more effective in demonstrations. For a video demonstration he uses a
green screen and digitally enters the model, similar to special effects seen in the movies.
The second interface is a computer game design where the client will be able to control
an avatar and interact with the 2D space. The third interface will use the VR Helmet.
Chris is documenting the advantages and disadvantages for each medium. He praises the
VR Helmet, but admits the Vertigo of flying over his virtual model is still difficult to
manage.
Print Shop Building (AKA: CAPWEST)
CAP is, once again, expanding! The University is lending us the Printing building on the
corner opposite of CAP. This space will be converted to facilities that can accommodate
our design build technologies by providing construction space for larger projects. The
facilities will include larger open spaces for building, a metals workshop, classroom
space, and additional offices. This expansion is intended to eliminate construction in
CAP‘s corridors, allowing for safer circulation. Mr. Roger Whitted will manage the
facility in coordination with Kyle Secrest. These spaces will be available upon request
made to Roger. It is intended for classroom use, and priority will be given to studios,
research projects, and course work related to construction materials and engineering.
Students wanting access to the facility require a faculty sponsor. Availability of the
space is slated for the beginning Fall 2012.
Replacement of Aging Shop Equipment
CAP has updated several of the heavy machinery and traditional shop tools with focus
and interest on safety and quality. CAP has already invested in new safe table saws
(Sawstop) and new machinery that will drastically improve capability and quality. These
upgrades are directly related to curricula and instructional needs especially in the area of
design/build courses.
Upgrade to CRC
A new interior for the CAP Communication Resource Center (CRC) creates a more
hospitable and inviting environment for faculty and student. The CRC is an essential
support facility providing CAP students and faculty with specialized large format
plotting, architectural and graphic supplies, as well as soft drinks and snacks. The CRC
is fast becoming one of the social hubs within the architecture Building (AB) for
students. It is most crowded at due dates and project presentation stages of each
semester. Such strategic facilities maintain the national competitive edge for CAP.
A new 3D printer will be available in the FAB LAB starting in Fall 2012. Though CAP
has been home to a similar printer, the new, custom-built machine will be faster, larger,
and better than the older model. Featuring three separate print heads, the ZPrinter 450
will be able to print in full color. These print heads will also be able to create durable
models with moving parts.
Left: ZPrinter 450 print example, Right: Example of a 3D model
Objective
F. Increase the vitality of campus social and cultural life.
-During the 2011-12 academic year CAP has hosted a number of important lectures on
subjects directly related to our curricula. The following is a list of guest lectures
sponsored by the college (additionally, departments, centers, institutes, faculty, and
student organizations have contributed with guest lectures open to the college and
university community):
Henry Cheung from
IDEO - October 24,
2011
Charles M.
Sappenfield
Series
Taryn Mead from
the Biomimicry
Group - April 9,
2012
Fall 2011
Speaker Series
Guest Included:
Joe Mrak with
RQAW October 31,
2011
Paul Strom with
HOK March 26, 2012
CONVERSATIONS
SERIES
Debra Kunce
with Schmidt
Associates
April 23, 2012
Fall 2011
Speaker Series
Guest Continued:
Elizabeth Boone
with Skidmore
Owings &
Merrill, LLP
Michael W.
Bischoff with Pei
Cobb Freed &
Partners
Larry Scarpa
with Brooks +
Scarpa
Malcolm
Holzman with
Holzman Moss
Bottino
Architecture
Robert and Rebecca Bluestone – October 24, 2011
Photo by John Widdifield, JFWPhotography
Pruitt-Igoe Myth: an
Urban History film
discussion panel (not
pictured: Reverend
Emory Davis or
Jeffrey Hager
Dr.
Leonard
Harris
Jacey
Foley
Dr.
Patricia
Wittberg
Jamie Thompson
Downtown Managers of
the City of Mansfield,
Ohio
Alan Reed with
GWWO, Inc.
Architects
Jennifer Kime Downtown
Managers of the City of
Mansfield, Ohio
Chris Matthews
with Michael Van
Valkenburgh
Associates
Cynthia Hoyle - Partner at
Orion Planning Group
Francis Halsband
Kliment Halsband
Architects
Natalie Rebuck
Kliment Halsband
Architects
Student organizations arranged for multiple speakers this academic year. Some of their flyers
are pictured below.
Vern Mesler, adjunct professor from Lansing Community College –
Shae Kmicikewycz – Program Director for Indiana Main Street,
Mary Burger – Indiana Landmarks
A Landscape Architecture Alumni Women Speaker panel highlighted the work of four
alumni working in Indiana in private, public and corporate practice. The breadth of their
work and women's issues gave tremendous insight into what new graduates can face as
their careers and families evolve. The panelists included Katie Clark (BLA '02) with RW
Armstrong and president - elect for INASLA, Tamera Doty (MLA '92) with Anderson
Parks, Cheryl Chalfant (MLA '92) with Rundell Ernstberger and Emily Kosz (BLA '02)
with Williams Creek Consultants. The presentations brought many questions from the
students in the audience which included faculty and students from all 3 departments.
Department of Landscape Architecture alumni add a distinctive dimension to the learning
environment at CAP. Tom Gallagher, Eric Ernstberger and Deane Rundell all joined the
faculty during the Academic year to provide training in urban design studios and
professional practice seminars.
Alumni add a distinctive dimension to the learning environment at CAP. In addition to
contributing their input to student design projects throughout the semester, the alumni
also step in to enrich and enhance the studio environments as "visiting faculty". Tom
Gallagher, Eric Ernstberger and Deane Rundell all joined the Landscape Architecture
faculty during the Academic year to provide training in urban design studios and
professional practice seminars.
-The appointment of Carol Street, CAP Archivist, with the additional task of coordinating
our agenda of guest lecturers and special cultural events has resulted on the best
organized guest lecture series of the last few years. Carol will continue to coordinate such
events and extend her influence towards establishing more integrated calendar that may
take full advantage of all the opportunities potentially available.
The first installment of the first 50 audio recordings in the College of Architecture and
Planning Guest Lecture Series Recordings is now live in the Digital Media Repository.
Patrons can listen to some of the very first speakers to come to the fledgling Indiana
design school, from 1966-73. There‘s also a recording of the building dedication for the
original CAP building in 1972. They can be found at
http://libx.bsu.edu/cdm4/collection.php?CISOROOT=/CAPLectures.
In the fall semester, the CAP welcomed the following Gallery exhibits. Imagine Indiana:
2011 Community Visioning Workshops showcasing the latest in the College‘s longstanding and award-winning efforts to improve the physical, social, and economic
environment of Indiana‘s Cities and Towns.
Unity & Utopia: The 1893 World‘s Columbian Exposition exhibit. The photographic
profile features scans of photogravure plates selected from Wm. Henry Jackson‘s The
White City (as it was) and Jackson‘s Famous Pictures of the World‘s Fair, published in
1894 and 1895. The publications are both part of the archival collection of the CAP
Drawings and Documents Archive.
Thanks to Ratio Architects, Inc. and alumnus Tom Gallagher for his coordination of one
of our spring gallery exhibits – Georgia Street: Super Street for the Superbowl. The CAP
exhibit features the Ratio designs created in support of the Indianapolis bid for the Super
Bowl, and the urban design profile for the Georgia Street renovation.
The current exhibit in the CAP Gallery is Architecture in the 4th Dimension. It is shown
in conjunction with the 17th Annual Open Building Conference in association with Build
Boston/November 2011, the exhibit profiles: An exhibit of Built Work, winners of the
Mid-Polis Student Competition, the exhibition of Professional Charrettes. Thanks to
Stephan Kendall for arranging for the exhibit to be displayed at CAP.
-Material Talks at Lunch. Hosted by the Architecture Library‘s Visual Resources
Collection, these 30 minute talks featured representatives from manufacturers offering
innovative or sustainable materials.
Fall 2011 talks:

September 28, 2011 at 12:15pm -- Austing Hess, Thermafiber, Mineral Wool
Insulation
 October 19, 2011 at 12:15pm -- Chris Holmes, PPG Ideascapes, Energy Efficient
Glazing
 November 2, 2011 at 12:15pm -- Jeff Pinyot, ECO Parking Lights, ECO Lighting
Solutions
Spring 2012 talks:

March 14, 2012 at 12:15pm -- Justin Edwards, Indiana Ready Mixed Concrete
Association
 April 18, 2012 at 12:15pm -- Cindy Martin, Aztec/VAST Composite Masonry
In building our “CAP Family” culture, the Friday before Review Week in December we serve a warm meal
(lunch) to the Architecture Building Residents. This holiday lunch conveys the message that we are a
community that deeply cares about all its members and in moments of high stress we can all come together
in support of each other… like a family.
-In closing the Spring Semester CAP‘s Commencement ceremony took place at the
Student Wellness and Recreation Center (SWRC). Following on tradition, the event
continues to be highly participatory but the length of the exercise was substantially
reduced this year by thirty minutes. The event was very successful. A record number of
faculty attended (21). It has been noted that in the future, music arrangements will need
to be managed more closely; as our musicians had difficulty getting from the morning
ceremony to our ceremony.
The class of 2012 through the eyes of M.J. Meneley, our featured speaker.
The class of 2012 celebrates commencement morning.
Faculty and students say goodbye prior to entering CAP commencement site.
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