{"id":37667,"date":"2024-09-13T13:00:25","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T17:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/?page_id=37667"},"modified":"2024-09-13T13:06:14","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T17:06:14","slug":"just-communities-lab","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/research\/just-communities-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Communities Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"floated-spotlight-aside-container\">\n  <div class=\"floated-spotlight-contents\">\n    <a\n    class=\"ncst-content-card wp-block-ncst-spotlight-box has-custombg-seven-background-color with-image with-cta\"\n    href=\"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/blog\/2023\/11\/29\/just-communities-lab\/\"\n    data-ua-cat=\"Content Card\"\n    data-ua-action=\"Content Card Click\"\n    data-ua-label=https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/blog\/2023\/11\/29\/just-communities-lab\/\n  >\n  \n\n    \n    <div class=\"content-card__text-container\">\n      \n                        <h3 class=\"content-card__headline\">New Just Communities Lab Advocates for Environmental Justice<\/h3>\n              \n\n              \n\t      \t        <p class=\"content-card__teaser\">Kofi Boone, a professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, has formed a new lab at NC State that uses design and planning as a tool to address environmental justice concerns. <\/p>\n\t      \t    \n              <p class=\"content-card__cta\"><span class=\"text\">Read more<\/span><span class=\"arrow-indicator\"><svg class=\"wolficon wolficon-arrow-right-bold\" role=\"img\"  aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<use xlink:href=\"#wolficon-arrow-right-bold\">\n\t\t<\/svg><\/span><\/p>\n          <\/div>\n\n  <\/a>\n  <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n\n\n\n<p>The Just Communities Lab aims to support the impact of environmental justice strategies by co-creating with communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new lab explores how we can use landscape architecture, design, and planning to rethink how we protect people, ecosystems, and environments. Their work emphasizes the importance of education by finding ways to help people who live in those areas discover the beauty and value of their own local communities and habitats.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just Communities follows a Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) model, working in communities to effect change. All of the work is done directly in communities and in partnership with other entities.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Leading Faculty<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ncst-contact-card layout-list\"><div class=\"ncst-contact-card__container\"><div class=\"wp-block-ncst-person-card\"><div class=\"person-card\">\n  <div class=\"person-card__container\">\n          <div class=\"person-card__image-container\">\n        <a class=\"person-card__image\" href=https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/people\/kmboone\/>\n          <div class=\"person-card__image-background\">\n            <div class=\"initials\">KB<\/div>\n                          <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Kofi-Boone-BW-1500x844-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-500x500 size-500x500 wp-post-image\" alt=\"Kofi Boone\" srcset=\"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Kofi-Boone-BW-1500x844-1.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Kofi-Boone-BW-1500x844-1-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Kofi-Boone-BW-1500x844-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Kofi-Boone-BW-1500x844-1-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>\n                      <\/div>\n        <\/a>\n      <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"person-card__info-container\">\n              <a class=\"name\" href=https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/people\/kmboone\/>\n          Kofi Boone, FASLA \n        <\/a>\n      \n              <p class=\"title\">Joseph D. Moore Distinguished Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, Director of Graduate Program in Landscape Architecture<\/p>\n      \t  \n      \n      \n      \n      \n      \n              <div class=\"phone\">\n          <a href=\"tel:919-515-8349\" >919-515-8349<\/a>\n        <\/div>\n      \n              <div class=\"email\">\n          <a href=\"mailto:kofi_boone@ncsu.edu\">kofi_boone@ncsu.edu<\/a>\n        <\/div>\n      \n      \n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Just Communities Lab aims to support the impact of environmental justice strategies by co-creating with communities. The new lab explores how we can use landscape architecture, design, and planning to rethink how we protect people, ecosystems, and environments. 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