College of Architecture and Planning

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  • UrbanPlan Workshop
    June 16, 2022 by

    One of the challenges facing the Department of Urban Planning is explaining what planners do and the many available career paths in the field. This void in understanding is not just with the incoming students but also their parents. With 90 percent of those incoming freshmen predetermining architecture as their intended discipline, the challenge is […]

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  • Exploring Modern Mobility in City Planning
    June 16, 2022 by

    For the Fall 2021 semester I was invited by the Department Chair of Urban Planning at Ball State, Scott Truex, to develop and lead a class related to transportation planning. After about a thousand emails and several phone calls, we aligned on Plan 498/598, Exploring Modern Mobility. Students were engaged in a semester long journey […]

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  • Promoting a Sustainable Future
    June 16, 2022 by

    What is a brownfield? According to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), it is a property that the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant. It is estimated that there are more than 450,000 brownfields in the U.S., and Muncie […]

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  • Virtual Escape Room
    June 1, 2022 by

    IDIA Lab is working on a virtual multi-user escape room simulation for Ball State University’s College of Health. Escape rooms employ innovative learning strategies such as problem-based, immersive learning, role play, and game principles to improve teamwork, communication and leadership. Nationally, health profession curricula are beginning to explore the use of escape room experiences as […]

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  • Dean’s Update
    June 1, 2022 by

    COLLEGE NEWS 50th ANNIVERSARY CAP celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first graduating class in April. Delayed a year by the pandemic, fifteen of the thirty-four 1971 graduates were able to come to Ball State, tour the building and campus, have dinner with President Mearns, give presentations, listen to thesis presentations from current students, and reconnect […]

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  • 2022 MKM Student Competition Winners
    May 20, 2022 by

    Seventy-eight models lined the hallways in the College of Architecture and Planning as students presented their entries for the annual MKM Design Competition this spring. The competition, sponsored by MKM Architecture + Design, asked Ball State students in the third-year architecture cohort to come up with creative design solutions using steel. This year students were […]

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  • Interior Design Student Places in National Formica Competition
    May 19, 2022 by

    Amber Scott, a Ball State junior in interior design, placed in the top ten in the national 2022 FORM Student Innovation Competition held by the Formica Corporation. The annual competition, now in its fifth season, had over 100 entries from 26 universities across the U.S. and Canada. The competition invited students to design furniture for the […]

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  • Exhibit Columbus “Calibrate”: Performance and Collaboration Beyond the Installation
    May 16, 2022 by

    Natalie Yates, assistant professor of landscape architecture at Ball State University, finished her 2021 Exhibit Columbus University Design Fellowship. Her project “Calibrate” an environmental sensor-driven drawing apparatus was installed for Exhibit Columbus’ 2021 New Middles Exhibition located at the Heritage Fund Community Foundation courtyard in Columbus, Indiana. The exhibition opened at the end of August and […]

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  • Construction Management Team Places First at New Builders Competition
    May 2, 2022 by

    The Construction Management team had an outstanding performance winning first place at the New Builders Competition held in February at the University of Cincinnati, sponsored by Fischer Homes. The New Builders competition is geared for first and second-year construction management students. The competition places students in a developer’s shoes and focuses on residential construction. For […]

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