VULNERABILITY STUDIO

With over 100 people in attendance including elected officials and community leaders, students in assistant professor Trudy Watt’s Vulnerability studio shared their vision of the future of the Central DOOR in Milwaukee. In collaboration with Adam Procell, Shannon Ross , and Micheal Carriere , the studio focused on a collective campus that consolidates existing re-entry services, integrates holistic access to communities, and provides wraparound support including housing and clinical components for people reintegrating after incarceration in Milwaukee.

Support for Undergraduate Research Fellows

WHAT’S SURF? Students Working with Faculty

The SURF grant, Support for Undergraduate Research Fellows, is a university grant awarded to student researchers to participate on faculty research projects. Faculty in the Department of Architecture have been very successful in obtaining SURF grants. This program is designed to foster faculty-student research collaborations, and the UWM Office of Undergraduate Research is particularly eager to fund work through which students have the opportunity to engage in thoughtful and progressively sophisticated work central to the overall research program of the principal investigator. During the last nine years, 93 undergraduate architecture students have garnered over $185,000 in SURF funding. Many faculty have participated in this funding and research opportunity but of special note is Associate Professor Arijit Sen who has collaborated on 36 of these projects.

2021-2022 SURF STUDENTS

Isabella Cosentino

Jacob Rohan

Devan Whitehead

Sofia Lopez

Ian Luecht

Tannis Thompson-Catlett

Larry Brown

Anastasia Wand

Natalie Kuehl

Hytham Jaraba

Jessica Dray

Liam Farin

Buildingslandscapescultures Field School

Arijit Sen, Liam Farin + Tannis Thompson-Catlett

The project aims to examine how urban gardens contribute to equitable food access in Milwaukee’s marginalized and undeserved communities. In summer 2022 the Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures field school project examined, documented, and evaluated the success of the Cherry Street Community Gardens. BloomMKE’s Cherry Street Garden is a community-owned growing space located on 1437 N 23rd St in Milwaukee’s Midtown neighborhood. Every summer the BloomMKE team collects produce from the garden and distributes “food boxes” to community residents and elders who live in a nearby senior living facility.

Corpus Comunis

Lindsey Krug, Even Johnson, Nathan Magee + Jacob Rohan

“ Corpus Comunis” looks at the relationship between law and architecture. The notion of precedent —prominent in both disciplines— is explored through the analysis of lineages of landmark U.S. Supreme Court rulings and editions of international architectural design manuals.

One pairing the research focuses on is the 1965 ruling in Griswold v. Connecticut and the 1970 publishing of the 1st English Edition of Ernst Neufert’s Architects’ Data and what these two events mean for legal and spatial expressions of privacy. Nearly sixty years after the authoring of these two documents, the scope and definition of privacy are still urgently debated in American society, culture, and law. The overlaying of extra-disciplinary texts onto architectural references and precedents puts designers into the arena of participation in shaping the future of these fundamental ideals.

Constructing Equitable Terrain

Tanner Farnham

Jessica Dray

Marina Fabela

Madison Sabel

Andres Velazquez

Megan Schulte

Andrea Juarez

Anastasia Wand

Dylan Groshek

Nathan Magee

Franziska Burkard

Cameron Hansen

Drew Running Maysam Abdeljaber

Luis Fernandez

Andres Velazquez

Sarah Lunow

Annabelle Fritz

Alana Dunne

$54,107 Awarded in 2021-2022

Chelsea Wait, Marina Fabela, Jacob Rohan, Alicia Kandall, Andrea Mendoza, Megan Schulte, + Andrea Garcia-Rangel

The “Constructing Equitable Terrain” summer SURF grant recipients Marina Fabela, Alicia Kandall, Andrea Mendoza, Andrea GarciaRangel, Jacob Rohan, and Megan Schulte worked with adjunct professor Chelsea Wait to create resources, events and procedures that foster diversity, equity, belonging, and inclusion at SARUP. Want to know how to incorporate social justice into your project, site analysis, term paper, or syllabus? Look for their website unveiling this fall! For phase two, their project is being renamed: DEBI (design, equity, belonging, and inclusion) goes to Design School.

FLEXRIDE: CONNECTING RESIDENTS WITH SUBURBAN JOBS

Dr. Yaidi Cancel Martinez + Elijah Hart

Elijah Hart (BSAS ‘23) was at the Bronzeville Cultural Arts Festival where he talked with residents and project partners about FlexRide Milwaukee —a new on-demand microtransit service that aims to connect Milwaukee residents with jobs in suburban areas in Menominee Falls and Butler in Waukesha County. Elijah studied how FlexRide Milwaukee is connecting city of Milwaukee residents to suburban jobs and examines the access to jobs through equity lenses. Pictured, from left to right: Montre J. Moore (SEWRPC), Elijah Hart, and Dave Steele (MobiliSE).