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Kent State CUDC’s Dawn Mayes Selected for Crain’s Cleveland Business 2024 Notable Black Leaders

 Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative's (CUDC) own Dawn Mayes has been named one of Crain’s Cleveland Business 2024 Notable Black Leaders. She will be featured online and in print on Sept. 30 with recognition for her work expanding the diversity of design practitioners in Northeast Ohio. M…

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Students in the Making Our Own Space (MOOS) program use power tools to fabricate both temporary and permanent improvements for local parks and vacant spaces. (Photo credit: Helen Liggett)

From Trash to Treasure: Cleveland Youth to Design, Fabricate Public Space Installation in Former Landfill Through Kent State Program

In an effort to expand racial and ethnic diversity in the design fields, Âé¶¹¹û¶³â€™s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative created Making Our Own Space (MOOS), a design/build program for middle and high school students. The program introduces youth to opportunities in architecture, urban design and landscape architecture.

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Erie, Pennsylvania, community members gather with CUDC students

Urban Design Students Make an Impact on Erie’s Bayfront

When cities need help imagining new possibilities for their urban places and communities, they call Âé¶¹¹û¶³â€™s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative (CUDC). Most recently, Kent State architecture students had the opportunity to put the skills they learn in the classroom to make an impact on local communities in Erie, Pennsylvania.

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Kayakers to Paddle From Kent to Cleveland for 5th Annual Crooked River Commute

Kayakers to Paddle From Kent to Cleveland for 5th Annual Crooked River Commute

Two days and 50 miles. That is how long it will take kayakers to paddle the Cuyahoga River from Âé¶¹¹û¶³ to Kent State’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative for the 5th annual Crooked River Commute. The event is intended to promote the river as a shared asset for education, recreation,…

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Kent State architecture and urban design students stand near the aging waterfront in Havana, Cuba, in an effort to design plans to help restore it. (Photo credit: Kent State’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative)

Kent State’s Historic Trip to Cuba Coincides With President Obama’s Visit

From its island greenery and beautiful, clear beaches – to its vintage American cars and aged architecture – Havana, Cuba, is a place where few American college students have explored in more than 60 years. But now that diplomatic relations are being restored between both countries, students from…

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Kent State Architecture Graduate Students Earn High Honor in International Design Competition

Âé¶¹¹û¶³ graduate students Jeff Jasinski of Wickliffe, Ohio, and Matt Dureiko of Stow, Ohio, both enrolled in the architecture and urban design program, placed second in an international design competition. The DawnTown 2014 Alternative Mobilities design competition, sponsored by the Mi…

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