College of Design

SCYP Kicks-off its Fifteenth Year with Oakridge

A bustling crowd of Oakridge city officials, faculty, leadership, and stakeholders came together in the Many Nations Longhouse for a rousing lunch and kick-off for this year's Sustainable City Year Program (SCYP). The sunny, October Tuesday offered attendees a preview of the upcoming year's activities and classes for the program's commitment with Oakridge.

If these walls could talk: Inside the Saint-Étienne Cathedral

College of Design History of Art and Architecture PhD Candidate, Gabriela Chitwood, was featured in a recent OPRI article discussing the relationship between Toulouse Cathedral and the local population. Built over 500 years, the cathedral was used in a half-built state for many generations between the 13th and 15th centuries. Chitwood's work explores what it is like to inhabit and interact within the space while it is being built.