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In Kennett Square, PennPraxis helps build community, one leader at a time
Sara Sterchak talks with someone at at the Juneteenth festival in Kennett Square

Design fellow Sara Sterchak speaks with community members at the 2022 Juneteenth festival in Kennett Square about the PennPraxis’ project. (Image: Katie Levesque)

In Kennett Square, PennPraxis helps build community, one leader at a time

While much community planning work is focused on limited interventions or short-lived programs targeting singular issues, PennPraxis partnerships focus on cultivating longer trajectories of community involvement.

From the Weitzman School of Design

Travel and the middle class
Image of an airport with a plane attached to the gate

Even as ticket prices are going up, the demand for air travel remains high. The crowding is compounded by an overall shortage of pilots, a lack of staff to check in luggage and long security lines to get to the gates.

Travel and the middle class

With the inflation boom, how long will travel be sustainable?

Kristina García

News Penn partners with West Philly High to give it a new ‘front porch’ and teach students about careers

News Penn partners with West Philly High to give it a new ‘front porch’ and teach students about careers

Daniel Flinchbaugh of the Weitzman School of Design manages Design to Thrive, a Weitzman summer program in collaboration with the Netter Center for Community Partnerships. The project teamed Weitzman grad students with West Philadelphia High School students to build a new outdoor rec area for their high school.

Can nature-inspired designs affect cognition and mood?
Farhan Jivraj sits at a desk and looks at the topographic rug in the biophilic room

Can nature-inspired designs affect cognition and mood?

A team from the Center for Neuroaesthetics created a biophilic room to test the idea. Preliminary findings from a small pilot show promise, but also spur many questions about how to best use such a space.

Michele W. Berger, Kelsey Geesler , Michael Grant

Student-led project takes a global view of the Green New Deal
Map of the earth with extinct animals superimposed over the continents.

Mass extinction, represented here by ranges once roamed by now-extinct species, is one strand of Field Notes Towards an Internationalist Green New Deal. (Image: Weitzman News)

Student-led project takes a global view of the Green New Deal

The Green New Deal and its implications for the design professions have been areas of sustained focus for The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology at Weitzman since 2019.

Goodbye to an iconic tree
Large tree without leaves on a sunny day

The Quad elm cut an imposing figure, shown here in the spring of 2021, before leaf out. The space will be replanted with three native white oaks at a later date. (Image: Eric Sucar/University Communications)

Goodbye to an iconic tree

More than a century old, the American elm located in the heart of the Quadrangle residences has been ailing and is due to be removed the week of July 25. The site will be replanted at a later date with three native white oaks.

Katherine Unger Baillie