Resilient Adaptive Climate Technology Living Lab & ThinkTank

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The founding five academic units (Engineering, Architecture, Libraries, Agriculture & Natural Resources, and Education) have agreed to advance beyond the already remarkable accomplishments of Team Maryland’s successes over the past two decades of transdisciplinary competition in the United States Department of Energy Solar Decathlon (SD). We intend to leverage our internationally recognized success into an on-campus Resilient Adaptive Climate Technology Living Laboratory & ThinkTank, a site for deep integration across disciplines as experts from different areas pursue common research challenges, and increasingly intermingle and integrate their knowledge, theories, methods, data, research communities and languages with new frameworks, paradigms or even disciplines formed from sustained interactions across multiple communities. We intend to extend the knowledge, expertise, and information to various stakeholders throughout the state of Maryland and beyond through various UMD outreach services, not the least of which is the University of Maryland Extension Service.

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    Decolonizing Education to Meet Climate Change Demands: Landscape Design
    (2024-05-02) Sachs, Naomi A.
    Landscape designs from LARC640, Graduate Studio, and LARC240, Graphic Communication & Design Studio, focused on a site at the northern edge of the University of Maryland College Park campus. The site is bounded by University Avenue to the north and Paint Branch Drive to the west. The LEAFHouse (2007 US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon) structure is currently positioned at the southern edge of the site, and the site is bounded to the east by a small parking area. Elements of the unreconstructed reACT house (2017 US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon) currently occupy the parking area. Designs reimagine the landscape and living systems at the UMD Solar Decathlon site through the lens of using Indigenous knowledge (IK). The studio task was to build upon the Indigenous Knowledge and principles from the reACT House and utilize them for a regenerative design of the “Solar Decathlon Site.” Learning Goals for LARC 240 and LARC 640: 1) Learn and investigate the meaning/s of a.Regenerative design, b.Indigenous Knowledge, c. Decolonizing education, d. Decolonizing design; 2) Employ facets of Indigenous Knowledge (IK) in research, programming, and design for the site (the site and all of its potential users: humans, trees and other plants, and the “four-legged, the winged, those that crawl and those that swim”); 3) Conduct and graphically represent site inventory and analysis and demonstrate its impact on the design; 4) Deepen and strengthen graphic representation skills with new techniques and tools. Sections include: 01 Course & Project Overview; 02 Site Inventory, Data Collection, and Representation; 03 Storytelling; 04 Design: Concept Diagrams; 05 Design: Graphic Elements; 06 Design: Final Boards. Student work is illustrated. Graduate Students: Stephanie Cavanaugh, Lauren Hudson, Eve Josar, Elliott Kenney, Phoenix Morrison, Stephanie Pully, Dana Watkiss, Auran Zaman. Undergraduate Students: Caleb Austin, Juan Bajana, Isabella Barresi, Elia Choi, Bianca Darago, Lili Francisco, Grazelle Giray, Gracie Guerrero, Wyatt Howell, Calvin Hruby, Rachel Kinsey, Christina Le, Joe Mallow, David Phan, Tiara Rachman, Alan Shi, Nathan Temesgen.
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    Decolonizing Education to Meet Climate Change Demands: 2023 Interdisciplinary Curriculum Program
    (2023-06-07) Cossard, Patricia Kosco
    This poster was presented at the University of Maryland Libraries 2023 Research and Innovative Practice Forum. It presents the work of an innovative cross-disciplinary experiential curriculum program of 20 courses offered in 7 departments across 5 academic units with an enrollment of nearly 500 students. Students were introduced to tribal members from the Piscataway Conoy Tribe, Choptico Band of Piscataway Conoy, and Nanticoke Indian Nation. Students used the "resilient Adaptive Climate Technology" (reACT) house, second place winner of the 2017 US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon, in order to provide design development in collaboration with tribal members for the adaptive reuse of the building as an educational laboratory. The curriculum development was funded by a generous grant from the UMD Provost through the 2023 Teaching & Learning Grant.