UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Stuckeman School in the Penn State College of Arts and Architecture is hosting its annual Research Open House on Oct. 2 from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Stuckeman Family Building to showcase the innovative design solutions developed by the school's students and faculty.
The research poster session will allow faculty and researchers from across the University to better understand some of the most pressing issues facing designers today — including accessibility, climate change, sustainable energy, cultural resilience, construction waste challenges, housing crises, sea level rise, etc. — while speaking with school researchers about their specific ongoing research projects.
“As home to three innovative Penn State research centers — Ecology plus Design, Hamer Center for Community for Community Design and the Stuckeman Center for Design Computing — as well as three distinct academic departments (architecture, graphic, design and landscape architecture), the Stuckeman School is in a unique position to integrate transdisciplinary knowledge employing systems design thinking in partner with colleagues from interdisciplinary fields to co-design solutions for the complex real-world challenges,” said Chingwen Cheng, Stuckeman School director.
The event, which is free and open to the public, is part of the Stuckeman School’s initiative to raise awareness about the impact designers have on the world in which we live.
“We encourage researchers within the Penn State community and beyond to explore the impact that our work has on not only our communities here in Pennsylvania and other parts of the United States, but also around the world.” Cheng said. “Research is the backbone in advancing knowledge and technology for designers to be well-rounded and effective problem-solvers across temporal and spatial scales in complex systems. Please join us and discover the wonder of design research at the Stuckeman School.”
Posters from the event will be displayed at a to-be-determined venue on the University Park campus and will be available on Penn State’s digital repository, ScholarSphere, following the open house.