{"id":117,"date":"2017-07-27T14:44:29","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T18:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar-draft\/?page_id=117"},"modified":"2025-06-03T12:02:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T16:02:47","slug":"outreach-projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar\/outreach-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Outreach Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; Student work generates enthusiasm and excitement in the communities the students serve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Project Examples<\/h2>\n\n\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar\/outreach-projects\/a-vision-for-jamestown-reimagining-the-mackerel-sheffield-coves-waterfront\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/635\/lar-oureach-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Picture of sunset\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/635\/lar-oureach-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/635\/lar-oureach-1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar\/outreach-projects\/a-vision-for-jamestown-reimagining-the-mackerel-sheffield-coves-waterfront\/\">A Vision for Jamestown: Reimagining the Mackerel &amp; Sheffield Coves Waterfront<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Supported by Rhode Island Sea Grant and led by Professor Hongbing Tang, the Spring 2025 Landscape Architecture Capstone studio developed an integrated vision to enhance climate resilience and community value along Jamestown\u2019s Mackerel and Sheffield Coves waterfront.<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2025\/05\/uri-capstone-class-designs-coastal-resiliency-solutions-for-jamestowns-mackerel-cove\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/635\/news-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/635\/news-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/635\/news-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2025\/05\/uri-capstone-class-designs-coastal-resiliency-solutions-for-jamestowns-mackerel-cove\/\">URI capstone class designs coastal resiliency solutions for Jamestown\u2019s Mackerel Cove<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">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.<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar\/outreach-projects\/rebalancing-the-port-of-galilee\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/635\/Galilee-Report-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/635\/Galilee-Report-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/635\/Galilee-Report-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar\/outreach-projects\/rebalancing-the-port-of-galilee\/\">Rebalancing the Port of Galilee<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">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. <\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar\/outreach-projects\/reconnecting-the-blackstone-the-city\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/635\/0001-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/635\/0001-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/635\/0001-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar\/outreach-projects\/reconnecting-the-blackstone-the-city\/\">Reconnecting The Blackstone &amp; The City<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">A Project by the 2020 Sustainable Design Studio at The University of Rhode Island Prepared for the City of Woonsocket Planning Department<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar\/outreach-projects\/revitalizing-the-seekonk-river-henderson-bridge-corridor\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/635\/revitalizing-seekonk-th-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/635\/revitalizing-seekonk-th-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/635\/revitalizing-seekonk-th-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/635\/revitalizing-seekonk-th-364x364.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/635\/revitalizing-seekonk-th.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/lar\/outreach-projects\/revitalizing-the-seekonk-river-henderson-bridge-corridor\/\">Revitalizing the Seekonk River Henderson Bridge Corridor<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">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.<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outreach studios provide an opportunity to involve students in hands-on service-learning projects. 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