MSU receives national grant supporting coastal resilience
The project team includes David Perkes, professor in the School of Architecture and director of the Gulf Coast Community Design Studio.
Gulf Coast Community Design Studio
MSU one of eight universities receiving funding from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
Architecture and landscape architecture majors in the Mississippi Gulf Coast Collaborative Studio have spent the year exploring ways to respond and adapt to ongoing struggles of Mississippi Gulf Coast communities.
Long-standing partnership leads to new public, nature-based recreation amenity in Ocean Springs
A mile-long trail featuring a raised boardwalk now offers the public access to a nature-focused amenity in Ocean Springs thanks to a partnership between Mississippi State’s Gulf Coast Community Design Studio and the Land Trust for the Mississippi Coastal Plain.
Gulf Coast Community Design Studio honored with Excellence in Community Engagement Award
“Rethinking Public Housing” was submitted by David Perkes and Kelsey Johnson.
Gulf Coast Community Design Studio works on stormwater management project at Bay-Waveland Middle School
The schoolyard garden is one of the products of several years of watershed education and outreach around Magnolia Bayou Watershed.
Gulf Coast Community Design Studio receives 2020 DASH CIC-Start Award
One of 12 recipients of the program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, funds will be used to kick-start three local place-based projects
ReTHINK! collaboration
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The Mississippi State University Gulf Coast Community Design Studio is collaborating with the Gulf Coast Community Foundation for an event that will include presentations by 3 Gulf Coast teams who can receive up to $4,000 each to kick-start their project ideas. Additionally, we’ll be joined by a stellar advisory panel who will be engaging the candidate project teams in meaningful dialogue around their projects:
The Panel of Speakers will include:
Gulf Coast Community Design Studio creates educational tool around Low Impact Development for Gulf Coast
As part of an outreach/education project sponsored by Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), the Gulf Coast Community Design Studio has produced the LID Gulf Coast Story Map.
Gulf Coast Community Design Studio offers virtual Community Research Fellow training
The 12-week training will provide hands-on experience with researchers who are making a difference in their communities.