Mill Race Park, Brown County State Park, Recreation, Infrastructure, Play, Cats, Mountain Lion, Bobcat, Columbus, Nashville
Wildways for Wildcats
by Bethany Greenaway, B.S.Arch ‘21, M.Arch + M.U.P ‘24 University at Buffalo
Wildways for Wildcats proposes a restructuring of our relationship with wild cats in the context of the Middle American city of Columbus, Indiana. Wild cats hold an ecological importance to the habitats we live in and we often recognize their absence without realizing it. Over abundance of nuisance animals like raccoons or skunks and the overgrazing of herbivores like deer are issues we created when we removed apex predators from these ecosystems. This project aims to renegotiate the way we use our land to encourage the uninterrupted migration and settlement of non-human species within a human landscape by implementing multi-scalar recreational strategies. A series of interpretive sites located at existing parks and nature preserves will be linked by pedestrian and vehicular recreational trails and protected wildlife corridors designed to promote positive cat-human interactions through education, visibility, and accessibility.
by Bethany Greenaway, B.S.Arch ‘21, M.Arch + M.U.P ‘24 University at Buffalo
Wildways for Wildcats proposes a restructuring of our relationship with wild cats in the context of the Middle American city of Columbus, Indiana. Wild cats hold an ecological importance to the habitats we live in and we often recognize their absence without realizing it. Over abundance of nuisance animals like raccoons or skunks and the overgrazing of herbivores like deer are issues we created when we removed apex predators from these ecosystems. This project aims to renegotiate the way we use our land to encourage the uninterrupted migration and settlement of non-human species within a human landscape by implementing multi-scalar recreational strategies. A series of interpretive sites located at existing parks and nature preserves will be linked by pedestrian and vehicular recreational trails and protected wildlife corridors designed to promote positive cat-human interactions through education, visibility, and accessibility.
NEW NATURES: NEW MIDDLES
UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING
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UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING
ECOLOGICAL PRACTICES RESEARCH GROUP GRADUATE STUDIO
In parallel with the 2020-21 Exhibit Columbus cycle, titled “New Middles: From Main Street to Megalopolis,” the Spring 2021 UB Ecological Practices studio explored the city of Columbus Indiana, its legacy of architecture and landscape design as civic projects, and developed speculative architectural interventions that reflect on Columbus’ design history while also responding to contemporary social and ecological conditions in the city and region. The sites for each proposal are centered in/around the city, but the aim is to speak more broadly to ways that design can impact the future of the American heartland and regions connected by the Mississippi Watershed. In the words of this year’s curators Mimi Zeiger and Iker Gil, “New Middles builds upon Columbus’ legacy as a laboratory for design as civic investment. In a moment when we most need reflection, creativity, and innovation to envision new ways of being, New Middles considers Columbus a place to destabilize assumptions, and imagine new architectures and landscapes as a way to positively move our cities forward.”
In parallel with the 2020-21 Exhibit Columbus cycle, titled “New Middles: From Main Street to Megalopolis,” the Spring 2021 UB Ecological Practices studio explored the city of Columbus Indiana, its legacy of architecture and landscape design as civic projects, and developed speculative architectural interventions that reflect on Columbus’ design history while also responding to contemporary social and ecological conditions in the city and region. The sites for each proposal are centered in/around the city, but the aim is to speak more broadly to ways that design can impact the future of the American heartland and regions connected by the Mississippi Watershed. In the words of this year’s curators Mimi Zeiger and Iker Gil, “New Middles builds upon Columbus’ legacy as a laboratory for design as civic investment. In a moment when we most need reflection, creativity, and innovation to envision new ways of being, New Middles considers Columbus a place to destabilize assumptions, and imagine new architectures and landscapes as a way to positively move our cities forward.”
UB ARCHITECTURE
FACULTY
Joyce Hwang, Associate Professor, Exhibit Columbus University Design Research Fellow 2021
STUDIO STUDENTS
Nicholas Blackwell
Cristian Copete
Bethany Greenaway
John Henning
Samanatha Kalinski
Marietta Koeberle
Mitchel Mesi
Gabrielle Morales
Madelaine Ong
Yogesh Ravichandar
Ayushi Vora
Ben Wemesfelder
FACULTY
Joyce Hwang, Associate Professor, Exhibit Columbus University Design Research Fellow 2021
STUDIO STUDENTS
Nicholas Blackwell
Cristian Copete
Bethany Greenaway
John Henning
Samanatha Kalinski
Marietta Koeberle
Mitchel Mesi
Gabrielle Morales
Madelaine Ong
Yogesh Ravichandar
Ayushi Vora
Ben Wemesfelder