Bridging the Gap Assignments - Spring 2012

 

Rochelle Brahalla
B.S., in Landscape Architecture
Community partner organization: Creating Healthy Places

This project was a print ad campaign which encourages healthy food habits by communicating positive attitudes to eating healthy. It combines text and photo to convey the message.

 

Scott Cloutier
Ph.D., in Biological and Environmental Engineering
Community partner organization: Somerville, Massachusetts

The Happy Neighborhoods Survey is a tool for measuring residential happiness with respect to the built environment.

 

Alexandra Gensemer
B.S. in Human Development
Community partner organization: Ithaca Children's Garden

After going through Ithaca Children's Gardens extensive photography archives, I created a video incorporating research on children's gardening and encouraging community involvement.

 

Quinn Kelly
B.S., Urban & Regional Studies
Community partner organization: Healthy Food for All (HFFA)

Prepared a section of the HFFA annual report, using current research to examine the issue of food insecurity and the reasoning behind programs that provide subsidized CSA shares as a means of building Community Food Security.

 

Karlton Lattimore
M.S. in Human-Environment Relations (Environmental Psychology)
Community partner organization: Creating Healthy Places at Human Services Coalition of Tompkins County

Goal of the project was to develop a commercial ad that would give healthy eating a stronger resonance amongst a younger generation.

 

Jen Mackall
M.S. in Human-Environment Relations (Environmental Psychology)
Community partner organization: Steve Gabriel of Cornell Cooperative Extension Garden Based Learning Program + Horticulture Department

These factsheets represent the beginning of a series of horticulture-related factsheets that will be published online to respond to the growing interest in organic and natural food growing techniques.

 

Sudy Majd
M.S. in Human-Environment Relations (Environmental Psychology)
Community partner organization: Neighborhood Pride Supermarket

In anticipation for the opening of Neighborhood Pride Supermarket in Ithaca, NY, a tool kit was designed to lay the foundation for future
in store health campaigns.

 

Becky Mikulay
Master of Landscape Architecture
Community partner organization: Rust to Green

Rust to Green (R2G) works with community partners in Utica, Binghampton and other upstate cities to help them design greener urban places. R2G is currently working to design some of the parks to TKF's Open Spaces Sacred Places standards. In this project I concentrated research linking nature, stress and well-being into a series of images to present the environmental health research to community meetings and officials.

 

Beth Myers
Ph.D., in Human Behavior and Design
Community partner organization: Earthplay

Earthplay is designing an hands-on nature playscape in an underutilized portion of the Ithaca Children's Garden.  A direct observation of children's physical activity and play types was created to help support Rusty in his evaluation of the project.

 

Divya Natarajan
M.S., in Human-Environment Relations (Sustainable Design Studies)
Community partner organization: Cornell Dining

This project, Reducing food waste at RPCC, aimed at reducing food waste in a Cornell dining hall by increasing awareness on nutrition, food consumption and waste among the students, using informational posters and environmental cues.

 

Stefana Scinta
M.S., in Human-Environment Relations (Environmental Psychology)
Community partner organization: Beverly J. Martin Elementary School

Created a series of nature scavenger hunts for multiple age levels aimed at developing observational and problem-solving skills, as well as increasing exposure to nature and encouraging physical activity. Scavenger hunt travels from BJM Elementary to the Ithaca Children's Garden.

 

Uchita Vaid
M.S. in Human Environment Relations (Environmental Psychology)
Community partner organization: Supportive housing program by Tompkins
County Action

'Active Kids + Active You' = Healthy Lifestyle: The project focused on creating an engaging way to inspire parents and children to spend time together doing physical activity and thus creating a healthy lifestyle. The product developed was a deck of cards with various activity ideas that the parents and children could enjoy together and that involved being physically active.

 

Xiying Wang
Ph.D. in Information Science
Community partner organization: Design Researchers at Parsons The New School for Design

In this project, in-depth interviews with the researchers and designers at Parsons are conducted to learn design researchers’ motivations, design process, and difficulties of building a sustainable food environment in low-income communities of New York City, with a design concept "Making-Experiencing method cards" that encourages local community members to engage more into the sustainable food practice.