College of Architecture and Planning

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Month: August 2021

  • CAP “Alumni” World Tour 2023!
    August 9, 2021 by

    CAP Alumni, are you interested in participating in a World Tour? Now’s your chance, Rod Underwood is organizing a tour for Spring of 2023. The “tour” is open to all CAP alumni and their significant others including children. (Note: these trips are not through Ball State they are independent of the university) You may take […]

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  • NSF Virtual Teaching Simulator
    August 5, 2021 by

    The Institute for Digital Intermedia Arts (IDIA Lab) explores the intersection between the arts, sciences, humanities with technology. Scholarly, creative and pedagogical projects investigate virtual reality, human computer interface (HCI), augmented reality, and much more. IDIA Lab’s most recent project is collaborating on a $3 million dollar National Science Foundation grant with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, […]

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  • Students Gain Valuable Experience with Community Partners
    August 5, 2021 by

    In CAP, we thrive on partnerships with our community. Here’s a quick peek at how some of our most consistent partners worked with just one of our faculty members this year. Partners and Projects Avondale Methodist Church ministers in a myriad of ways to its southside community, Thomas Park-Avondale ecoREHAB fixes up rundown homes with […]

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  • Every Mind, For Every Body
    August 5, 2021 by

    Each year we try to highlight projects from some of our student capstone and thesis courses. Architecture grad Kurt Green shares his thesis project “For Every Mind, For Every Body: Architectural Interventions Toward Equity & Inclusion in the Indianapolis Athenaeum.”   Abstract Statement Over the past several decades, cities have developed a new level of […]

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  • Virtual Reality Exhibition
    August 5, 2021 by

    In this 2020-21 reCAP issue, we have been highlighting some of our creative faculty and their explorations into art and their submissions into competitions and exhibits. Assistant Professor of Architecture, James F. Kerestes, recently participated in an exhibition of digital objects for the A+D Museum in Los Angeles, California titled “One Object at a Time”. […]

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  • Chicagoland Internship Pairs Senior with MURP Grad
    August 4, 2021 by

    BY WILL SNYDER, senior My name is Will Snyder, and this summer, I am an economic development intern with the Village of Wheeling, Ill. My work primarily focuses on business development within Wheeling’s three TIF districts. I help market our restaurant and retail build-out grant to new businesses choosing to locate in our TIFs, call […]

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  • Internship Leads to Job Offer for December Grad
    August 4, 2021 by

    BY HANNAH JONES, senior My name is Hannah Jones, and I am the planning intern for the City of Shelbyville, Indiana. I work with BSU planning alumnus Adam Rude, director of the department. The City of Shelbyville is rapidly growing and is undergoing many great changes, from an influx of new housing to redeveloping the […]

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