College of Design

The four homes on Hope Loop, though they look distinct from each other have something in common. They were all built by UO students in the OregonBILDS program.

Students from the Department of Product Design’s bachelor of fine arts program and graduate program in Sports Product Design are among the contributors for Bespoke Bodies: The Design & Craft of Prosthetics. Product Design students at the UO in Portland worked with athletes to design adaptive products, which are some of the pieces featured in the show.

One creates sustainable community spaces in Los Angeles; the other restores and repurposes existing structures in Detroit; both are graduates of the UO School of Architecture & Environment’s Department of Architecture and involved in public interest design and service-based practice.

Chaz Kern, MArch ’17, a design fellow at LA-Más, an urban design nonprofit in Los Angeles, says her firm reaches out to the community to create public spaces, alternative housing, and provide small business support.

We spend 90% of our lives in buildings. The new College of Design Institute for Health in the Built Environment wants to make those buildings and us healthier.

Sustainability, project-based learning, and real-world applications have PPPM students lining up in the corridor to take this class.

Terri Warpinski, Professor of Art, has been selected as the Society for Photographic Education (SPE) 2018 Honored Educator.

In his letter announcing the award, James Wyman, executive director of the society said, “As an early and ongoing SPE advocate, supporter, as well as former member of the SPE Board of Directors, Terri's influence is profound within our community, and it's a great pleasure to see her recognized with SPE's highest honor of distinction. Her significant contributions to the field of photo education and SPE are deeply appreciated.”

The University of Oregon’s Product Design department is set to host the Industrial Designers Society of America’s West District conference for the second year in a row.

Building coalitions along with architectural models, College of Design graduate student Ali Lau—who is pursuing master's degrees in Community and Regional Planning and in Architecture—was recognized by the Daily Emerald for her work to further equity and inclusion at the University of Oregon.

As the University of Oregon prepares to serve more students in the coming years, the institution is moving forward with planning for construction of a new 60,000 square foot classroom and faculty office building.

A grant from the Presidential Fund for Excellence will allow Urbanism Next to establish a new center with faculty and staff from the College of Design's Portland and Eugene campuses. The center will expand on the work Urbanism Next is doing to examine the changes that could come with the growth of such technologies as autonomous vehicles, ecommerce and the sharing economy.