Dina Battisto, Ph.D.
Professor of Architecture
Design for health and wellness; Evidence-based health facility design Pre-and Post-occupancy evaluations; sustainable design
Email: dbattis@clemson.edu
Resilient Communities and Sustainable Landscapes
The Resilient Communities and Sustainable Landscapes area aims to advance knowledge on cultivating socially just communities and sustaining cultural, natural and visual resources for the future amid changing conditions. Research in this area is multi-scalar, poly-modal and expansive to leverage integrated, community-based approaches to land use planning and design development. The group of scholars in this area works within various scales, typologies and geographic contexts with a common goal of generating knowledge to create thriving, resilient and healthful communities. Topics are diverse and may include land ethics, people and their well-being, the conservation of communities, buildings and landscapes of cultural significance, biodiversity, climate change and the preservation of natural resources. Methods of inquiry and research strategies are extensive to cover a range of topics.
Examples of research topics:
- Learning landscapes
- Land-based cultural identity and cultural landscape heritage
- Therapeutic and restorative landscapes
- Adaptive strategies for communities facing scarcity of natural resources
- Carbon-neutral landscapes and communities
- Socially just and sustainable planning and design
- Resilient urban design & planning
- Placemaking and meaning of place
- Urban design and public space
- Spatial equity and health
- Green and blue-green infrastructure
- Aging in Place
Point of Contact
Mary G. Padua
Professor of Landscape Architecture
Email: mgpadua@clemson.edu
Office: Lee 2-209
Core Faculty
Dina Battisto, Ph.D.
Vincent Blouin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Architecture
Sustainability and high-performance buildings, Systems integration, Design and optimization, Multi-physics numerical simulation, Material science
Email: vblouin@clemson.edu
Lyndsey Deaton, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Architecture
Spatial Equity and Health; Urban Design and Public Space; Dispossession, Displacement & Gentrification; Women and Children’s Environments; Participatory Design & Action Research
Email: ldeaton@clemson.edu
Anjali Joseph, Ph.D., EDAC
Director, Center for Health Facilities Design & Testing; Professor of Architecture
Evidence-based health facility design; Design for safety; Simulation-based evaluation; VR/AR applications in healthcare design; Design for mental health
Email: anjalij@clemson.edu
Hyejung Chang, MLA, Ph.D., P.E.
Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture
Environmental Ethics; Landscape Aesthetics; Typology and Phenomenology in Theory and Design
Email: hyejunc@clemson.edu
Matthew Nicolette, MLA, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture
Gamification engagement strategies in landscape architecture; Microplastics and native plant competition; Design pedagogy and performance-based design; Communicating mission through design; Green infrastructure
Email: mlnicol@clemson.edu
Hala Nassar, Ph.D., Fellow CELA
Professor of Landscape Architecture
Sustainable design and planning, urban design, historical and cultural landscape preservation, Islamic Garden Tradition, public art and place-making, health care, design and ecological restoration, international education and multiculturalism, intersection of robotics, drones and the design of public place.
Email: hnassar@clemson.edu
Mary G. Padua, Ph.D., ASLA, CLARB, RLA
Professor of Landscape Architecture
Adaptive strategies; The meaning and cultivation of place; Socio-cultural theories and emancipatory research; Health, well-being and outdoor restorative environments; Novel technologies
Email: mgpadua@clemson.edu
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