Outreach studios provide an opportunity to involve students in hands-on service-learning projects. These projects involve local communities, clients and interactions with stakeholders and officials.  Students produce conceptual designs and visualizations of how things might be, which lead to discussions on how to improve sites for parks, campuses, streets and village centers.  Student work generates enthusiasm and excitement in the communities the students serve.

Project Examples

• URI capstone class designs coastal resiliency solutions for Jamestown’s Mackerel Cove - In Spring of 2025, 19 aspiring landscape architects from the University of Rhode Island spent their senior capstone class researching and brain-storming to come up with landscape solutions to protect Mackerel Cove Beach and the surrounding area in Jamestown from sea-level rise and storm flooding.
• Rebalancing the Port of Galilee - This work contained in the PDF was prepared by the 2022 LAR 444 sustainable design studio for the Town of Narragansett. Their project titled Rebalancing the Port of Galilee is a project that followed an earlier one (2015) which was also conducted for the Town of Narragansett titled Galilee, A Vision for a Resilient Port.
• Reconnecting The Blackstone & The City - A Project by the 2020 Sustainable Design Studio at The University of Rhode Island Prepared for the City of Woonsocket Planning Department
• Revitalizing the Seekonk River Henderson Bridge Corridor - This Fall 2018 project analyzed conditions on the Henderson Bridge and Expressway, along the banks of the Seekonk River and other areas abutting the river and its communities.