{"id":26827,"date":"2019-04-11T12:22:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T16:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/doctor-of-design\/2019\/04\/11\/ddes-student-practitioner-expands-conversation-about-climate-change\/"},"modified":"2023-02-15T17:25:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T22:25:46","slug":"ddes-student-practitioner-expands-conversation-about-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/doctor-of-design\/2019\/04\/11\/ddes-student-practitioner-expands-conversation-about-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"DDes Student-Practitioner Expands Conversation about Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Teresa<\/a><\/p>\n

When landscape architect Teresa Buckwalter moved to Boone, North Carolina, in 2012, there weren\u2019t any landscape architecture firms, so she started her own. Then in 2018, she sold that firm and started Mosaic Civic Studio, a startup firm to help rural communities reinvent themselves by rebranding and creating new places for people to engage and enjoy life. And, in the fall of 2018, she became one of eight students in the first cohort of the College of Design\u2019s new Doctor of Design (DDes) program<\/a>. Buckwalter is a busy practitioner, and she is exactly the type of student the DDes program was created for.<\/p>\n

\"Teresa<\/a>
Teresa Buckwalter interacting with Professor of Architecture Art Rice (L) and Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture Fernando Magallanes (R). <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI was looking a bit at the PhD program, but when I found the DDes program, I was like \u2018wow, this is exactly what I was looking for.\u2019 It\u2019s flexible, and I see it as really informing my practice,\u201d Buckwalter says. Living in Boone, Buckwalter also appreciates the blended design of the DDes program. Students can work and research from a distance and only need to come to campus once each semester. \u201cI get to stay in the mountains and be connected to this larger community. I\u2019m not saying it\u2019s easy, but it\u2019s worthwhile,\u201d she says. In addition to the program\u2019s flexibility, NC State was appealing to Buckwalter because of the College of Design\u2019s prestigious reputation and the faculty she would be working with. Buckwalter also enjoys working with her DDes cohort made up of student-practitioners from other disciplines. \u201cI love the interaction with user-experience people and industrial design and graphic design. All these areas help us break down the silos and expand our thinking,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I hope my research will do is give landscape architects a way of talking and interacting with people and rural communities that value those places and those people and their insights.\u201d \u2014Teresa Buckwalter<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Buckwalter will be using her time in the program to research climate change resiliency in the rural United States, specifically the Appalachian region. This is a topic she is interested in and passionate about but also something that she says can inform her practice. \u201cWhat I hope my research will do is give landscape architects a way of talking and interacting with people and rural communities that value those places and those people and their insights.\u201d Buckwalter says that we cannot address climate change without working with rural communities, specifically in a manner that address their unique characteristics. \u201cIf we\u2019re not listening to them, then we\u2019re missing the boat as a professional.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRural places could be really helpful in terms of energy production with wind energy or carbon sequestration or flood management,\u201d Buckwalter says. But solutions need to be tailor made and created in conversation with the communities. With this in mind, Buckwalter is focusing her research on how this can be achieved. It\u2019s still early in the process, so she\u2019s not sure what her final presentation of findings will look like, but she is thinking along the lines of theory development or even a toolkit of sorts. Whatever shape it takes, Buckwalter believes it needs to function as an aid to landscape architects and to communities in exchanging ideas and generating solutions.<\/p>\n

Increasingly, rural communities in Appalachia are recognizing climate change and the role they play in environmental stewardship, such as protecting headwaters, but their involvement in planning for climate change is not always recognized. \u201cI don\u2019t want [these rural communities] left out of this conversation about what we do about climate change. Rural places could also tell us as professionals what\u2019s acceptable and what\u2019s not acceptable because it\u2019s not going to come top down. It\u2019s got to come from communities accepting, adapting, changing, and creating their own solutions or making the solution that professionals have better.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Staci Kleinmaier is a professional writer and photographer in Apex, North Carolina. She uses words and images to tell stories. To see her work, visit\u00a0www.stacikleinmaier.com<\/u>.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

This post was originally published<\/a> in College of Design Blog.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false,"raw":"\"Teresa<\/a>\r\n\r\nWhen landscape architect Teresa Buckwalter moved to Boone, North Carolina, in 2012, there weren\u2019t any landscape architecture firms, so she started her own. Then in 2018, she sold that firm and started Mosaic Civic Studio, a startup firm to help rural communities reinvent themselves by rebranding and creating new places for people to engage and enjoy life. And, in the fall of 2018, she became one of eight students in the first cohort of the College of Design\u2019s new Doctor of Design (DDes) program<\/a>. Buckwalter is a busy practitioner, and she is exactly the type of student the DDes program was created for.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_17959\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"450\"]\"Teresa<\/a> Teresa Buckwalter interacting with Professor of Architecture Art Rice (L) and Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture Fernando Magallanes (R). <\/em>[\/caption]\r\n\r\n\u201cI was looking a bit at the PhD program, but when I found the DDes program, I was like \u2018wow, this is exactly what I was looking for.\u2019 It\u2019s flexible, and I see it as really informing my practice,\u201d Buckwalter says. Living in Boone, Buckwalter also appreciates the blended design of the DDes program. Students can work and research from a distance and only need to come to campus once each semester. \u201cI get to stay in the mountains and be connected to this larger community. I\u2019m not saying it\u2019s easy, but it\u2019s worthwhile,\u201d she says. In addition to the program\u2019s flexibility, NC State was appealing to Buckwalter because of the College of Design\u2019s prestigious reputation and the faculty she would be working with. Buckwalter also enjoys working with her DDes cohort made up of student-practitioners from other disciplines. \u201cI love the interaction with user-experience people and industrial design and graphic design. All these areas help us break down the silos and expand our thinking,\u201d she says.\r\n

\u201cWhat I hope my research will do is give landscape architects a way of talking and interacting with people and rural communities that value those places and those people and their insights.\u201d \u2014Teresa Buckwalter<\/blockquote>\r\nBuckwalter will be using her time in the program to research climate change resiliency in the rural United States, specifically the Appalachian region. This is a topic she is interested in and passionate about but also something that she says can inform her practice. \u201cWhat I hope my research will do is give landscape architects a way of talking and interacting with people and rural communities that value those places and those people and their insights.\u201d Buckwalter says that we cannot address climate change without working with rural communities, specifically in a manner that address their unique characteristics. \u201cIf we\u2019re not listening to them, then we\u2019re missing the boat as a professional.\u201d\r\n\r\n\u201cRural places could be really helpful in terms of energy production with wind energy or carbon sequestration or flood management,\u201d Buckwalter says. But solutions need to be tailor made and created in conversation with the communities. With this in mind, Buckwalter is focusing her research on how this can be achieved. It\u2019s still early in the process, so she\u2019s not sure what her final presentation of findings will look like, but she is thinking along the lines of theory development or even a toolkit of sorts. Whatever shape it takes, Buckwalter believes it needs to function as an aid to landscape architects and to communities in exchanging ideas and generating solutions.\r\n\r\nIncreasingly, rural communities in Appalachia are recognizing climate change and the role they play in environmental stewardship, such as protecting headwaters, but their involvement in planning for climate change is not always recognized. \u201cI don\u2019t want [these rural communities] left out of this conversation about what we do about climate change. Rural places could also tell us as professionals what\u2019s acceptable and what\u2019s not acceptable because it\u2019s not going to come top down. It\u2019s got to come from communities accepting, adapting, changing, and creating their own solutions or making the solution that professionals have better.\u201d\r\n\r\n
\r\n\r\nStaci Kleinmaier is a professional writer and photographer in Apex, North Carolina. She uses words and images to tell stories. To see her work, visit\u00a0www.stacikleinmaier.com<\/u>.\u00a0<\/em><\/span>"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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