In 2009-2010, the College of Environmental Design marked its 50th anniversary with a year-long series of events that paid tribute to CED’s history and legacy, and engaged the college community in a lively discussion about its future. The celebration began in the fall with the Traditions of Design Activism symposium — a tribute to CED’s history — and continued in the spring with Visualizing the Future of Environmental Design, a colloquium focusing on issues important to the future of design and planning.

50th Anniversary Student Support Fund

The 50th Anniversary Gala on February 6, 2010, launched the 50th Anniversary Student Support Fund to provide financial support for graduate and undergraduate students across the college.

Supporting the fund is a wonderful way to publicly honor CED‘s tremendous accomplishments, as well as help the college continue to offer its students the chance to develop planning and design solutions that are sustainable, fair, and enriching. Ensuring that CED students have equal access to the excellence of an environmental design education is imperative. Access that is based on the ability to achieve rather than the ability to pay requires new investments in CED’s endowment to support undergraduate scholarships and graduate fellowships. DONATE NOW

Spring 2010 Program: Visualizing the Future of Environmental Design

In the spring our celebration focused on the global dynamics and sustainability challenges that could have not been foreseen when CED was founded in 1959. The four-day event included four major keynote addresses, a panel discussion with junior faculty, recent alumni, and graduate students, and a gala fundraiser.

If you missed any of the events, you can view them on YouTube.

From left to right: Malo Andre Hutson, Allegra Bukojemsky, Bill Eisenstein, Susanne Cowan, John Cary, Dana Cuff, Manuel Castells, Ron Rael, Renee Roy, Jennifer Wolch.

Fall 2009 Program: Traditions of Design Activism and their Consequences

The fall program focused on CED’s traditions of design activism and the impact and legacy of environmental design education at CED. The three-day event included major keynote addresses, a morning session with distinguished emeritus faculty and alumni, and a day-long series of expeditions to remarkable sites around the San Francisco Bay Area led by innovative designers, planners, and landscape architects.

If you missed any of the events, you can view them on YouTube.

From left to right: Harrison Fraker, Mario Schjetnan, Jennifer Wolch, Clare Cooper Marcus, Sir Peter Hall, Dell Upton, Carol Galante, Richard Bender, Michael Teitz, Ray Kappe, Russell Ellis. Not pictured: Sim Van der Ryn, Sam Davis. Photo: Eric Gillet.