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    Environmental Design

    The Bachelor of Science in Environmental Design at Auburn University is a dynamic program that prioritizes hands-on learning through diverse workflows, blending digital and physical environments, multi-scalar deliverables and a strong focus on undergraduate research. The curriculum prepares students to navigate the complexities of built, digital and natural environments through lab-based lecture courses, project-driven seminars and two studio workshops. 

    Courses in Environmental Design explore topics such as spatial design and digital worldbuilding, place-based environments and ecologies, community-focused narrative construction and partnerships and the integration of technology and digital fabrication in design workflows. Students create both digital and physical work while engaging in critical discussions, pedagogical exploration and both real-world and speculative applications. The program’s projects often inspire students to pursue undergraduate research fellowships, grants, awards and publications. Graduates are well-equipped for advanced studies or careers in architecture, landscape architecture, community planning, spatial/set design, fabrication and construction.

    Courses are organized, starting with a design core sequence which occurs prior to the student matriculation into more focused courses.

    Areas of Focus include:

    • Scénographies: digi-phys rep / worldbuilding / media tech
    • Ecologies: territories / systems / formations
    • Narratives: civic engagement / urban tech / mapping
    • Matters: digi-phys fabrication / prototyping / positions

    Foreign Environmental Design is an interdisciplinary, broad, inclusive design degree where we cover things like hand drawing, hand modeling, hand collaging, and then the fast skills involve digital drawing, digital modeling, hybrid techniques, like AI, some of the use of artificial intelligence, the use of extended reality. And we really try to merge both physical and digital design methods to talk about the different environments that we live in, work, in, play, in and design so that is anything from a territory or a large scale system to something smaller than a building, something like a temporary installation, a pop up, and students gain experience, both in some of the technical and the illustrative facets of environments design.

    The summer workshops are full day experiences where we go into studio and we sit at a desk across from some of our best friends, and we get to work on our projects together, have the teachers walk around and kind of talk to us. It benefits me to learn from both my peers and my faculty, because my peers will think of something that my teachers want, and vice versa, my teachers will be able to look at a project and know my personality in it and say, maybe you should adjust to this or you're stronger in this area, whereas my peers might just like something that they saw, or vice versa as a student.

    One of the exciting features about emvd is that we have a variety of excursion options, so that may include things like a study abroad program or excursion that may include workshops both at Auburn's main campus, at other CADC campuses.

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