Downtown Watkinsvile -- student visioning projects from Environmental Design UGA class of Professor Bruce Ferguson
Visioning projects can be an exercise in futility or a basis with which to engineer a new schematic for a city's survival. Watkinsville has been lucky to get a group of UGA students to design and dream what could be for our small town. Bruce Ferguson is a professor from UGA who went on some of the Saturday Strolls last year to bolster his Environmental Design students and their curriculum.
Come see some of the results of their imagination and planning Monday of their semester long projects. A lot of time these plans are kind of like concept cars that look really sleek and cool but have almost no practical applications.
My sister Sarah who is in Atlanta right now has helped with some ideas along this line in Des Moines where I grew up. Some ideas will never happen, others happened right away because the city flooded 15 years ago.
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:17:43 -0400
Subject: [oconee] Downtown Watkinsvile -- student projects
Come see some of the results of their imagination and planning Monday of their semester long projects. A lot of time these plans are kind of like concept cars that look really sleek and cool but have almost no practical applications.
My sister Sarah who is in Atlanta right now has helped with some ideas along this line in Des Moines where I grew up. Some ideas will never happen, others happened right away because the city flooded 15 years ago.
Woven brightly,
Daniel J. Matthews, Jr. Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:17:43 -0400
Subject: [oconee] Downtown Watkinsvile -- student projects
Hi!
Participants met so many neat people on the Saturday Strolls last year.
One was a professor in the School of Environmental Design who was
learning more about Watkinsville'
using the town as the focus for student projects this year. His
students are just now finishing up their re-envisionings of the area and
will be presenting their projects on Monday at Watkinsville'
(next door to Harris Shoals Park). Drop in to see what they've dreamed up!
Here's more below from Bruce Ferguson, their professor.
Thanks!
Pat Priest
Member, Oconee Democrats
Pat:
I attended a couple of your downtown Watkinsville walks last
Fall, in preparation for my UGA students to do a hypothetical urban
design project in the district. I am very grateful for everything I
learned on those walks.
My students are now scheduled to present their plans for downtown
Watkinsville'
Monday, Mar 22. We will be in the meeting room at City Hall, between
8:00 and 11:00 am. Mayors Joe Walter and/or Jim Luken will be there at
least part of the time, as will several people from in town.
Would you like to attend? This presentation is for the students' major design
project of the semester, a 'master plan' to imagine the downtown
district's alternative futures. There are 20 students, each
with a different idea. I will bring coffee and donuts. We would
welcome your interest.
*Bruce K. Ferguson, FASLA*
Franklin Professor of Landscape Architecture
School of Environmental Design
609 Caldwell Hall
University of Georgia
Athens GA 30602
phone 706-542-0709
fax 706-542-4485
bfergus@uga.
Participants met so many neat people on the Saturday Strolls last year.
One was a professor in the School of Environmental Design who was
learning more about Watkinsville'
using the town as the focus for student projects this year. His
students are just now finishing up their re-envisionings of the area and
will be presenting their projects on Monday at Watkinsville'
(next door to Harris Shoals Park). Drop in to see what they've dreamed up!
Here's more below from Bruce Ferguson, their professor.
Thanks!
Pat Priest
Member, Oconee Democrats
Pat:
I attended a couple of your downtown Watkinsville walks last
Fall, in preparation for my UGA students to do a hypothetical urban
design project in the district. I am very grateful for everything I
learned on those walks.
My students are now scheduled to present their plans for downtown
Watkinsville'
Monday, Mar 22. We will be in the meeting room at City Hall, between
8:00 and 11:00 am. Mayors Joe Walter and/or Jim Luken will be there at
least part of the time, as will several people from in town.
Would you like to attend? This presentation is for the students' major design
project of the semester, a 'master plan' to imagine the downtown
district's alternative futures. There are 20 students, each
with a different idea. I will bring coffee and donuts. We would
welcome your interest.
*Bruce K. Ferguson, FASLA*
Franklin Professor of Landscape Architecture
School of Environmental Design
609 Caldwell Hall
University of Georgia
Athens GA 30602
phone 706-542-0709
fax 706-542-4485
bfergus@uga.
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