Green Knowledge Map
Seeing Green: University of Minnesota Green Map is a Knowledge Map of sustainable design on the Twin Cities Campus. Funded by the University's Design Institute, it began with the question 'How 'green' is the U?' It was made to celebrate sustainable design, architecture and landscape architecture initiatives at the University of Minnesota, identifying 21 examples from around the Twin Cities campuses, with the goal of encouraging future 'greening efforts' at the U, and serving as a model for sustainable design in the region. This mapping project recognizes the many enthusiastic, but isolated, efforts to ensure a sustainable future at the University.
This Green Knowledge Map includes its own special pair of red tinted glasses that reveal the names of the Green Initiatives on campus on one side of the Map.
Seeing Green was developed in conjunction with a Design Minor class called Green Mapping: Tracking Sustainable Design at the U, a new course at the University's College of Architecture & Landscape Architecture, offered to undergraduate and graduate students in Spring 2002. Virajita Singh and Sarah Birtles, researchers in the Center for Sustainable Building Research, were appointed Design Institute Fellows to teach this course, which served as a pilot for future green mapping research by identifying sustainable design initiatives on campus through individual student projects. The Map also solicits from the U community other examples of sustainable design on campus.
For further information on the Green Map please contact: Virajita Singh (singh023@umn.edu)
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