School of Planning, Design and Construction

Outreach News

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  NCI expands use of charrettes in applied research to fight crime

  Published on March 19, 2019
  On Feb. 21-23, 2019, the National Charrette Institute partnered with the City of Lansing, the MSU School of Planning, Design and Construction and MSU Extension on a mini-charrette to fight crime.

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  Urban & Regional Planning junior Najma Muhammad receives Network for Global Civic Engagement Fellowship

  Published on February 20, 2019
  Najma Muhammad, a junior majoring in urban and regional planning at the MSU School of Planning, Design and Construction, received the Network for Global Civic Engagement Fellowship.

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  National Charrette Institute is published by prestigious American Planning Association PAS Memo

  Published on February 12, 2019
  The American Planning Association invited the National Charrette Institute at MSU to write about our charrette process for the Planning Advisory Service’s PAS Memo.

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  NCI Year in Review

  Published on January 8, 2019
  2018 Year in Review for the National Charrette Institute.

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  NCI and MSU Extension host placemaking and charrette mash-up training series in Michigan

  Published on November 7, 2018
  NCI and MSU Extension partnered together to offer a training series throughout Michigan that aims to create more successful communities through NCI's placemaking process.

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  National Charrette Institute taught engagement strategies at Work in the Age of Intelligent Machines Workshop at Michigan State University

  Published on October 9, 2018
  NCI was asked to create and facilitate a series of interactions during a workshop designed to produce an agenda for research on the social, economic and policy implications of autonomous vehicles and to propose infrastructure to support that research.

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  MSU Urban & Regional Planning Practicum student team win the Planning Excellence Award from the Michigan Association of Planning

  Published on October 4, 2018
  An Urban & Regional Planning Practicum team of students received the Michigan Association of Planning “Planning Excellence Award” for their project Imagine Vine 2025: A neighborhood plan for Vine, Kalamazoo.

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  Landscape Architecture student Stephanie Onwenu wins City of Detroit’s Give a Park, Get a Park Design Competition

  Published on April 12, 2018
  Stephanie Onwenu, Landscape Architecture dual degree student, from the School of Planning, Design and Construction recently won the City of Detroit’s Give a Park, Get a Park Design Competition.

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  NCI’s Holly Madill and MSUE’s Harmony Gmazel co-present session at Michigan Community Development Association Spring Technical Assistance Conference

  Published on April 10, 2018
  The Michigan Community Development Association hosted their Spring Technical Assistance Conference on March 14, 2018, in East Lansing, MI.

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  SPDC’s Jun-Hyun Kim is elected to the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Board of Directors

  Published on March 29, 2018
  Jun-Hyun Kim, associate professor and program director of the LA Program and the MED Program in SPDC, was elected to the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Board of Directors.

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  Faculty from SPDC and NCI conduct local workshop in Downers Grove, IL, with APA and FEMA to address disaster resilience

  Published on March 14, 2018
  Wayne Beyea, from SPDC and NCI; and Bill Lennertz, from NCI, facilitated a workshop for more than 70 participants on applying digital flood-mapping and risk assessment tools for the Village of Downers Grove, Illinois.

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  NCI makes house calls: Train your staff, while planning your projects

  Published on December 19, 2017
  The NCI can come to you for a customized 2.5-day NCI Charrette System certificate training, and/or a one-day NCI Charrette Management and Facilitation certificate training!

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  NCI hosts Charrette Boot Camp and Train-the-Trainer events in Michigan

  Published on December 7, 2017
  For the first time, NCI is offering a NCI Charrette Boot Camp on Dec. 13, 2017, specifically for Michigan participants. They are also conducting a Train-the-Trainer event in conjunction with the Boot Camp on Dec. 14-15.

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  NCI’s Wayne Beyea conducts session on charrettes for MSU UN Industrial Development Organization training delegates from Nigeria

  Published on October 13, 2017
  On Sept. 25, Wayne Beyea, interim director of NCI, conducted a session for UNIDO delegates on “Managing Park Stakeholders Engagement & Cooperation.”

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  MSU faculty work on United Nations industrial park project

  Published on October 10, 2017
  The MSU School of Planning, Design and Construction partnered with the Center for Global Connections to develop a training manual and program for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization.